Staunton, April 24 – Many Russians make a clear distinction between “russky,” the Russian adjective for a member of the Russian ethnos, and “rossiyanin,” a noun designating anyone who is a subject of citizen of the Russian state. And many Russian nationalists dislike the former precisely because they say it demeans their ethno-national identity. But […]
Staunton, August 12 – Usually when Russians or others talk about the Russian state as the successor to the Mongol Golden Horde, they do so from the perspective of those who believe Moscow hasn’t yet but should escape from that “yoke” and become a modern state. But there are exceptions, people who believe that Moscow […]
Staunton, April 15 – That Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea has re-ordered the international landscape is now common ground as countries around the world recalibrate their foreign policies in the face of what appears to be a fait accompli. But this annexation is also having a dizzying impact on the Russian Federation’s own nationalities. Indeed, in […]
