Tag: Boris Pastukhov

Putinism is What the White Russians Might Have Implemented Had They Won, Pastukhov Says

May 25, 2015
Analysis
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 25 — Given the recrudescence of Soviet institutions in the Russian-occupied Crimea and Donbass, ever more people are playing the game of “what if” – “what if” the August 1991 putsch or October 1993 clash in Moscow had ended another way or “what if” the anti-Bolshevik White Russians had defeated Lenin and returned […]

Putin Won’t Be Able to Mobilize Russians Much Longer by Ukraine Alone, Pastukhov Says

June 27, 2014
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, June 26 – By the middle of August, Boris Pastukhov says, “the Ukrainian conflict will have exhausted itself as a mobilization tool” for the Kremlin, one that gives “the appearance of national unity.” And consequently, “at that moment, new steps will be taken by the Kremlin directed at maintaining” the current level of “mobilization […]