Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia New poll results suggest where Russia and Ukraine are heading Three poll results announced yesterday, two in Russia and one in Ukraine, merit particular notice because they suggest… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Moscow hides its effort to weaken larger non-Russian nations by playing up its support for smaller ones Everyone who lived through the end of the Gorbachev era will remember that the Soviet president sought to… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Putin’s war in Ukraine looks very different in Pskov than it does in Moscow, new book shows A new book, entitled Russia and Ukraine. Days of Eclipse, which collects articles about Putin’s war in Ukraine… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Ukraine Orthodox Church of Ukraine won’t be a state church, Poroshenko says On the day of the enthronement of the metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), President Petro… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Ukraine Majority of Orthodox believers in Ukraine identify with Ukrainian church, new poll shows A new poll conducted by the SOCIS Center, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia New Siberian website provides data on Russification of non-Russians and repression of Russians At a time when most Russian sites are devoted to promoting an entirely positive image of the Russian… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 1 minute read Opinion Ukraine Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Church of Ukraine are now legal synonyms Yesterday, the Ukrainian justice ministry officially registered the religious organization, “the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion A fight with the diaspora is Ukraine’s to lose Recently, I’ve read an op-ed in the Atlantic Council written by Dr. Motyl, who is an expert on… byEuromaidan Press Contributor
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses continues in Russia despite Putin’s statements When Vladimir Putin said at his press conference last month that he saw no justification for attacks on… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad, Ukrainian intelligence official says The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled”… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Collapse of Putin’s rating irreversible and spreading – Five articles highlight extent of crisis Five articles over the last several days call attention to what is already the biggest crisis Vladimir Putin… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read History of Ukraine Opinion Russia Black January in Baku – the time and place the Soviet Union died On January 20 twenty-nine years ago, Soviet forces attacked the people of Baku, killing and wounding hundreds and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Ukrainian politics Kyiv moving toward breaking diplomatic relations with Moscow When one country invades another and occupies part of its territory, the victim normally breaks diplomatic relations with… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia China reopens Siberian river diversion debate that divided Soviet society before 1991 Beijing’s proposal for the diversion of part of the flow of rivers from the Altai inside the borders… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read History of Ukraine International Opinion The West’s failure in 1991 must not be repeated now Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read History of Ukraine Opinion Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Russian analyst: Two simple reflexes explain Putin’s decisions As the gap between what Vladimir Putin says and does and what Russians see around them widens, ever… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Ukrainian autocephaly a defeat for Putin but a victory for a future Free Russia, Illarionov says Many commentators have suggested that the grant of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a great… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Ukraine Now-independent Ukrainian Orthodox church set to be major player internationally, Illarionov says Russian commentator Andrey Illarionov has carefully compared the status of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in terms of 25 basic issues… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Growing Russian nostalgia for Soviet past far more dangerous than it appears, Kirillova says New polls show that the share of Russians who would like to go “back to the USSR” is… byPaul A. Goble