Staunton, October 12 – In a development that some will see as encouraging but most as an indication of more troubles ahead, the officials who handled the development of the transportation network for the Sochi Olympics have now been given the task of improving transit between the Russian Federation and Russian-occupied Crimea via the Kerch […]
Staunton, October 11 – In what appears to be part of a new trend in the Russian Federation, officials in Ufa denied a group that wanted to hold a demonstration on the republic’s Day of the [Bashkir] Republic on the basis of technicalities which earlier these same officials had been willing to overlook. By adopting […]
Staunton, October 11 Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea has had many unintended consequences but one that may ultimately prove to be especially important is the way in which the illegal inclusion of the Crimean Tatars inside the Russian Federation has affected that country’s “linguistic map,” something likely to have political consequences as well. In a […]
Staunton, October 9 In the 1990s, Islamic missionaries from the Middle East and South Asia were the primary source of the spread of radicalism in the Muslim community of the Russian Federation, but now, a Moscow prosecutor says, the role of Muslims from Russia who study abroad and then return is much more important. Viktor […]
Staunton, October 8 Many Russian regions now have more refugees from Ukraine than they had expected or can handle, and officials suggest that more are likely to arrive as Ukraine’s economy and weather deteriorate. As a result, the situation of these refugees is “becoming critical,” according to experts. In Novyye Izvestiya on October 8 journalist […]
Staunton, October 8 – Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Cheboksary, the capital of Chuvashia, October 9. In advance of his arrival, local officials linguistically “cleansed” the streets along which he passed, removing those which were in Chuvash and leaving only those in Russian. This violation of both the Russian law on languages and the Chuvash […]
Staunton, October 8 – Increasing fears in the population of the Russian Federation about how the government will use any information it obtains are causing ever more people there not to provide it and thus leaving the Putin regime without the kind of knowledge it needs to conduct even defensible policies. There has been a […]
Staunton, October 8 – Media attention to Ukraine has “eclipsed” all other cases of inter-ethnic tension in Russia, according to a survey of 70 specialists on nationality issues there. And that neglect, they say, has allowed these problems to worsen because officials are not paying attention and outside forces are exploiting the situation. In its […]
Staunton, October 8 – The skinhead phenomenon in Russia had been in decline in recent years because of the actions of law enforcement agencies, but now, in large part thanks to the return of many young Russian nationalists from fighting in the Donbas, a resurgence of skinhead activity in Russia is “inevitable,” according to a […]
Staunton, October 8 – The Russian Federation is seeking a revision in the international system but lacks the economic strength to be a new pillar, according to Fyodor Lyukanov. And as a result, Moscow will seek to make up for that shortcoming by sudden and dramatic foreign policy moves as it has been doing in […]
