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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Next Russia target in Europe you never knew of: Norway's Svalbard Archipelago

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Analysis

Next Russia target in Europe you never knew of: Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago

Norway's demilitarized Svalbard archipelago has emerged as a potential target for Russia, as ambiguity surrounding its NATO status could allow Moscow to test the Alliance's resolve without directly triggering Article 5.

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International

Moscow’s greatest fear about Orthodox Church in Belarus may be about to come true

The first two of these fears – see Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus…

Major languages in Russia (Image: Daniel Dalet, d-maps.com)

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Russia

Russia’s many non-Russian nations no longer have any authors under 35 writing in their languages – Tatar scholar

A recently held roundtable on the census in the Tatarstan capital that attracted experts from across the Russian…

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Russia

Kremlin has made defending Moscow Patriarchate key part of Russian foreign policy, Russian expert says

The revised Foreign Policy Concept paper the Kremlin released this week has declared that the defense of the…

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Russia

Moscow demonized Ukrainians exploiting ethnic discord it promoted in Russia, activist from Kamchatka says

The activist from Kamchatka who now lives as a political exile in Norway says that discrimination against national…

Map of the Russian Federation as a mosaic of regional flags (Image: afterempire.info)

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Russia

Risks from Russia falling apart far less than risks from it remaining in one piece, Russian commentator says

That is a clear mistake, as Prague-based Russian commentator Vitaly Ginzburg observes in a comment on a recent…

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Russia

Moscow promoting ever more military programs for ever younger school-age groups

In a sign that the Putin regime is preparing for the militarization of Russian society over the long…

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Opinion

Getting rid of dictatorship in Russia may not stop war against Ukraine, Pastukhov says

Many analysts are inclined to explain the vitality of Putinism and Russian support for his war in Ukraine…

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Russian Aggression

Moscow sending women prisoners to fill depleted ranks of Russian forces in Ukraine, ‘Russia behind bars’ says

Olga Romanova, head of the Russia Behind Bars organization, confirms what Ukrainian military sources have been reporting since…

putin actions non russian autonomies reveal his ukraine belarus moldova plans

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Opinion

What Putin wants to do in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, he is already implementing in non-Russia’s non-Russian republics, Portnikov says

Anyone who wants to know what Putin’s future plans are for Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and all the other…

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Opinion

Western leaders want Ukraine to win but Russia not to suffer defeat, two desires that can’t be squared, Skobov says

Over the last year, Western leaders have had to give up on many of their assumptions about Ukraine…

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Russia

Putin’s ‘anti-imperialism’ trope also taken from Nazi playbook, Zizek says

Many in the West believe, as Putin intends them to that his talk about fighting imperialism precludes the…

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Russia

Mass street protests by themselves won’t bring regime change in Russia, as Belarus and Venezuela showed, Golosov says

The political scientist at St. Petersburg’s European University argues that this is the lesson of the events in…

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Russia

Putin has deeply embedded cult of death and notion of ‘cleansing apocalypse’ in Russia today, Khapayeva says

They reflect the revival in Russia today of the “simple and barbaric” medieval notion that human life is…

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