Paul A. Goble

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Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. Earlier he has served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Euromaidan Press republishes the work of Paul Goble with permission from his blog Windows on Eurasia.

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Mi-8 combat helicopters participating in the Russian military exercises "Caucasus-2016" in Russia's Southern Military District near Ukraine (Image: TASS)

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Russia preparing for war in the media but not in the budget, Moscow commentators say

The Moscow media are filled with stories suggesting that Russia is preparing for war, but a close examination…

A new signpost in Kyiv, Ukraine installed in 2016. Similar Ukrainian-English language signs are finally replacing the common Russian-language signs, a remnant of Ukraine's three and half centuries-long status as a colony of the Russian monarchic empire that later transformed into a communist one. (Image: UNIAN)

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Ukrainian becoming de facto the language of Ukraine, Viatrovych says

Kyiv’s announcement that railway stations in Ukraine within three months will have signs in Ukrainian and English but…

Putin enters the hall at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Image: kremlin.ru)

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World faces crisis like 1952/53 rather than 1914, 1939 or 1962, Piontkovsky says

Leaders, like all other people, typically go through a process whenever confronted with a radical change in the…

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‘Russia is trying to be an empire but it ever more resembles a colony,’ Glukhovsky says

The fundamental contradiction in Russia today is that “externally Russia is trying to be an empire but internally…

Mercenaries fighting for Moscow's hybrid military force in the Donbas come from all over Russia. In the declining economy, mercenary salaries are enticing to many. Some Ukrainians from the occupied territory also join, especially as their civilian jobs disappear following the Russian invasion, while a few mercenaries come from abroad driven by adventurism or false ideals. (Image: video screen capture)

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‘You bet your life’ takes on a whole new meaning in Russian-occupied Donbas

Facing ever more difficulties in recruiting soldiers, the leaders of Moscow's hybrid military forces in the Donbas are now…

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…

If Putin at 64 were the ordinary Russian: Living in a 24-square meter flat in a deteriorating high-rise apartment building (Image: OpenRussia.org)

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Statistics: If Putin at 64 were the ordinary Russian he likes to say he is

Vladimir Putin lies to say that he “never was part of the so-called elites” but instead feels himself…

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“How to pray for Putin” and other neglected Russian stories

The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…

Putin's speech at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow in February 2012, almost exactly two years before he commanded the Russian military to start the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. (Image: Ilya Varlamov)

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A new man emerges in Russia – Homo Putinisticus – Eidman says

Russian society is now divided between “Russian Europeans” and members of a new species, Homo Putinisticus, according to…

Moscow Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin (Image: mospat.ru)

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Three religious developments in Eurasia with more than religious implications

A Ukrainian bill that would make it easier for congregations to shift from the Moscow patriarchate to the…

The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, 2015 (Image: AFP)

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Putin’s plutonium threat ‘tactically clever but strategically disastrous,’ Solovey says

Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to the West over the plutonium issue may be “tactically clever” on his part largely…

Hands clasped in friendship, Adolf Hitler and England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, are shown in this historic pose at Munich on Sept. 30, 1938. This was the day when the premier of France and England signed the Munich agreement, sealing the fate of Czechoslovakia. Next to Chamberlain is Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany. Paul Schmidt, an interpreter, stands next to Hitler. (Image: AP)

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Putin making the same mistake Hitler did, Piontkovsky says

After meeting with the leaders of Britain and France, Adolf Hitler concluded that he was dealing with non-entities…

Chuvash children celebrating Akatuy, the Chuvash ancient festival of land fertility (Image: gov.cap.ru)

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Warning to Kremlin: Its non-Russians likely to become the Irish of the 21st century

Russian officials have long operated on the assumption that if they can force non-Russians in their country to…

Members of a joint investigation team present the preliminary results of the criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , in Nieuwegein, on September 28, 2016. (Image: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

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Proof of Putin’s ‘crime within a crime’ has far-reaching consequences, Eidman says

Proof that Moscow was behind the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner MH17 has far larger and more…

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Paul A. Goble

Russia preparing for war in the media but not in the budget, Moscow commentators say

Ukrainian becoming de facto the language of Ukraine, Viatrovych says

World faces crisis like 1952/53 rather than 1914, 1939 or 1962, Piontkovsky says

‘Russia is trying to be an empire but it ever more resembles a colony,’ Glukhovsky says

‘You bet your life’ takes on a whole new meaning in Russian-occupied Donbas

Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

Statistics: If Putin at 64 were the ordinary Russian he likes to say he is

“How to pray for Putin” and other neglected Russian stories

A new man emerges in Russia – Homo Putinisticus – Eidman says

Three religious developments in Eurasia with more than religious implications

Putin’s plutonium threat ‘tactically clever but strategically disastrous,’ Solovey says

Putin making the same mistake Hitler did, Piontkovsky says

Warning to Kremlin: Its non-Russians likely to become the Irish of the 21st century

Proof of Putin’s ‘crime within a crime’ has far-reaching consequences, Eidman says

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