Opinion War in Donbas Ukrainian attitudes harden against Kremlin’s positions on Donbas According to new polls, 60 percent of Ukrainians favor the introduction of international peacekeepers in the Donbas; and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Crimea Opinion Putin doesn’t want Russians to continue focusing on Crimea, Goryunova says Vladimir Putin, who exploited Russian euphoria over the Anschluss of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea three years ago… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Putin’s supposedly overwhelming popular support could disappear overnight, Gudkov says The Foundation for the Development of Civil Society says in a 26-page report that “’a Putin majority’” exists… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Russians list Putin’s greatest successes and greatest failures A new Levada Center poll showing that more than half of Russians are tired of waiting for Vladimir… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia ‘Why should Russian taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?’ Eight days ago, US Secretary of State posed a rhetorical question to his G-7 counterparts, “Why should US… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia ‘Young Russians love Putin, state ownership and socialism,’ poll finds The massive participation of young Russians in the March 26 anti-corruption demonstrations led many Russian and Western analysts… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Ukraine Making Ukraine mono-ethnic – Putin’s greatest achievement and most fateful failure Ninety-two percent of Ukrainian citizens now consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, an unprecedented figure that is the product of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More ‘Crimea effect’ weaker but still significant for the Kremlin, experts say With the passing of time, the euphoria with which Russians greeted the Crimean Anschluss has weakened, a process… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read More Latvians ready to defend their country in the underground if necessary Fifty-five percent of Latvians say they are ready to take up arms to defend their country in the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International More Ukraine Russian invasion brought too many guns to Ukraine for any future protest to remain entirely peaceful, Bekeshkina warns Iryna Bekeshkina, the sociologist who heads Kyiv’s Democratic Initiatives Foundation, says that so many Ukrainians now are in… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read More Ukraine Disentangling the ‘fraternal’ Russian and Ukrainian peoples in 1991 and now Two new commentaries, one about Russia’s refusal to enter into any larger political structure in 1991 if Ukraine… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International More Survey: Most Russians say they want a democracy but don’t support democratic values A majority of Russians – 57 percent – say they want to live in a democratic state, according… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read More War in Donbas Why only 48% of Ukrainians blame Moscow alone for war in the Donbas? Forty-eight percent of Ukrainians blame Moscow for the war in the Donbas, while 33 percent blame both Moscow… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read International More “How many Putins are there?” and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Putin elite’s anti-Americanism older and more deeply held than that of other Russians (study) Members of the Russian elite became anti-American sooner and are more committed to anti-Americanism now than is the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More New climate of fear makes Russian polls ever less reliable, Moscow sociologist says One of the few Russian sociologists who predicted the mass protests against the Putin regime in 2011-2012 says… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read More Young people proud to be Ukrainians despite the circumstances, new poll reveals The driving force of Ukraine, its young people, are patriots, despite the hardships the country faces, a recent study carried out… byOlena Makarenko
Read More 2 minute read International More Ukraine at ‘final stage of saying goodbye to Soviet past,’ Kyiv expert says Over the past six month, polls show that Ukrainian attitudes toward Russians have improved slightly but this does… byPaul A. Goble