Staunton, November 16 Muslims living in Kyiv assembled in a mosque there to commemorate the 71st anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of the Meskhetian Turks or Meskhi from their ancestral homeland in what is now the Republic of Georgia and to call attention to their continuing suffering. Marat Rasulov, representative in Ukraine of the World Council […]
Staunton, November 12 – Less than 48 hours have elapsed from the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, and many questions about it remain unanswered, but commentators in many countries, including the post-Soviet states, are already calling it “the French 911,” thus drawing parallels with the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and […]
Staunton, November 13 – Moscow is preparing to mark the second anniversary of the EuroMaidan in Kyiv “in its own way,” by unleashing a new disinformation campaign against Ukraine via Europe as part of its continuing campaign to destabilize Ukraine and restore Russian influence there, according to Andrey Latynin. This disinformation campaign, the Ukrainian commentator […]
Staunton, November 12 – The URA.ru news agency publishes today a screenshot of a page on the Russian “Petitions to the President” which shows one written by a certain Artem Starodubtsev calling on Vladimir Putin to launch a nuclear first strike against the United States (shows one written by a certain Artem Starodubtsev ). The […]
Staunton, November 11 – The Kremlin’s revival of a campaign against what it calls “Russophobia” constitutes a threat not only to Western countries but to Russia’s future as well, according to two Polish experts. As such, they argue, it can properly be described as “a weapon of mass destruction.” In a new study, Russophobia in […]
Staunton, November 11 – The post-Soviet states are currently supplying 7,000 of the 30,000 foreigners who have gone to Syria to fight for ISIS, according to Yevgeny Sysoyev, the deputy director of the FSB; with a large share of these coming from Muslim regions in the Russian Federation itself. On the one hand, he told […]
Staunton, November 11 – Vladimir Putin’s declaration that Moscow will create a nuclear strike force capable of overcoming any anti-ballistic missile system works to Ukraine’s advantage both by showing to the world what his foreign policy is really about – a return to the Cold War – and by diverting, for a time, his focus […]
Staunton, November 11 – Sixty percent of Russians say they are indifferent to politics in their country, and they appear to have good reason: not only do their views have no impact on the Kremlin but their votes are treated so cavalierly by Russian officials that even the formalities of democracy have lost any attraction. […]
Staunton, November 6 – Russians have significantly lower levels of trust than do other nations, especially in the major cities like Moscow where “only about one percent” trust anyone. But in small cities and rural areas, their levels of trust in others are somewhat greater. Indeed, commentator Pavel Pryannikov says, “the further one goes into […]
Staunton, November 10 – Speaking at the Valdai Club meeting this year, Vladimir Putin said that “trade and sanction wars are the reality of the contemporary global economy” and are “used among other things as instruments of unfair competition.” But he is wrong, Vladislav Inozemtsev says. “In the contemporary world, sanctions are not becoming the […]
