Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples “Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia The Arctic Ocean was once the Tatar Sea, Khakimov says They have managed to convince many that the Volga is a Russian rather than a Tatar river and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion ‘Russia can be destroyed from within and Turkey has the confederates there to do it,’ Honchar says Given Moscow’s attempt to use ethnic Russians in Ukraine against that country, some in Kyiv have suggested the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 1 minute read International Opinion ‘The West won’t allow the Russian Federation to disintegrate,’ Kashapov says Rafis Kashapov, the deputy prime minister of the Tatarstan government in exile, a member of the presidium of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion Ukrainian politics Kyiv calls for defense of minority nations in Russia against Moscow oppression The supporters of incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are calling on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt an appeal… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Non-Russians inside Russia more important allies of West than is the opposition there, Verkhovna Rada leader says In words that echo Eugene Lyons’ 1953 classic, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia, Hanna Hopko, chair… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion West and Ukraine must learn lessons of Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, Podobed says The West and Ukraine continue to support the Russian opposition rather than the national movements inside the current… 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 Russia Moscow sanctions Ukrainian parliamentarian who called for defense of rights of Middle Volga nations Two weeks ago, Hanna Hopko, the chairman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s foreign affairs committee, called on the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Ukraine Free Idel-Ural Movement takes shape in Kyiv This week, three activists from the Middle Volga announced the formation of the Free Idel-Ural Movement to achieve… byPaul A. Goble