Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 15 – Having annexed Ukraine’s Crimea, Moscow is now finding it difficult to bring that region into the common Russian legal space. The situation there is now one...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 15 – A survey of Russian parliamentarians present and past shows that they are nearly unanimous in believing that the OSCE proposal about Ukraine shows that “the West...
One day following a local separatist referendum, the commander of the Donbas People’s Militia, the paramilitary wing of the Donetsk Republic Organization, Igor “Strelkov” Girkin...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 12 – A government’s priorities and plans are most clearly shown in its budget, and over the last four years, the budgets Vladimir Putin has proposed and imposed...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 11 – Vladimir Putin’s demands for the federalization of Ukraine not only are hypocritical because of the absence of federalism in Russia but dangerous for both...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 11 – “The criminal actions of Putin’s spetsnaz forces in Ukraine” are modeled on the actions of Stalin’s special force in Ukraine during...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 9 – Moscow commentators have been denouncing the West for launching “a new cold war” against Russia, and a large share of Western commentators have assumed...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Only those who are in complete denial can fail to see that Vladimir Putin is a fascist, émigré Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky says, given that “this analogy is so...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 4 – Because Vladimir Putin did not stop after the Crimean Anschluss, the Kremlin leader now faces a Hobson’s choice of his own making: if he expands his aggression in...
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, May 4 – Had Vladimir Putin accepted the Maidan’s ouster of discredited Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and agreed to accept the results of the upcoming...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
