Staunton, June 14 – The lack of local support in Crimea for the Russian occupation and the resistance of the Crimean Tatars to that occupation has prompted an imam from St. Petersburg to go to Crimea where he serves as Moscow’s point man against the Milli Mejlis which has just announced the Crimean Tatars will […]
Staunton, June 14 – If Moscow does not win out in Ukraine, Maksim Kalashnikov argues, the Russian Federation will suffer its very own “’Ukrainian crisis,’” with “’true Russian nationalists’” in places like the overwhelmingly ethnic Russian Bryansk Region adopting separatist agendas and challenging the central government. According to the Russian nationalist commentator, the struggle for […]
Staunton, June 13 – Russia has a sufficiently strong army to “put any country in its place,” Bogdan Bezpalko, the head of the Federation of National Cultural Autonomies of Ukrainians of Russia, says, but “domestic contradictions” between Russians and other groups, including ethnic Ukrainians, “represent a danger.” In a commentary posted online yesterday, Bezpalko says […]
Staunton, June 13 – Under international maritime law and given insurance rules, ship owners may soon find it more risky to send their vessels into the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea than they would dispatching them into war zones, according to an analysis by a Russian maritime expert. That is because, Mikhail Voytenko says in a […]
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Staunton, June 13 – Andrey Illarionov delivered an address to a May 31st Vilnius meeting of the Committee on Economics and Security of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly in which he discussed ten theses on the nature and meaning of Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and what the West must do to counter it. The Russian analyst […]
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Staunton, June 12 – The Russian Federation, by focusing on the construction of “oligarchic capitalism,” essentially “threw all the union republics” to their own fates, and as a result, the governments and peoples have turned away from Moscow and ethnic Russians are fleeing back to Russia, thus further undermining Russian influence. That harsh judgment, one […]
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Staunton, June 11 – Unlike Spain which turned to economic modernization only seven years after the beginning of political modernization, a pattern that prevented the recrudescent of the past, Russia’s leaders chose the reverse, enriching themselves but opening the way for a return to support for Soviet-style imperialism, according to Emil Pain. And it is […]
