Staunton, July 20 – Like his various predecessors over the last century, Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading his country into yet another period of imperial collapse by his counterproductive efforts to save or even restore that imperial state, according to the editors of Azerbaijan’s Minval.az weekly. In an introduction to a special issue of […]
Staunton, July 20 – In his almost 15 years in power, Vladimir Putin has “never admitted a single error” and “never made a single step backward” even when it would have been tactically or strategically to his benefit to do so, Arkady Babchenko says, and consequently, it is unlikely that he will do so in […]
Staunton, July 20 – The Bereg Rus portal, a major Russian nationalist site, after declaring that Ukraine shot down the Malaysian airliner, says that “the West intends to destroy us” and consequently Russians should stop “losing time” and “put [their] own house in order” to be in a better position to defend the country. Russia’s […]
Staunton, July 20 – Russian national character like that of any other people changes over time, and those who insist otherwise, including some in Moscow, are engaging in a self-fulfilling prophecy intended to keep Russians from changing themselves and their society in ways that would be good for both, according to Vladimir Rimsky, a sociologist […]
Staunton, July 20 -Eurasianism, which has acquired enormous influence in the Kremlin, is playing “a destructive role” in relation to Russian society and its real culture and on the political level is rapidly evolving toward “Russian fascism,” just as Berdyaev, Likhachev, and Solovyev warned, according to Moscow commentator Maksim Kantor. In a wide-ranging 5,200-word essay […]
Staunton, July 20 – Russia’s reaction to the Malaysian airliner tragedy represents a more serious threat to the future of the world than does the mistake of shooting it down because it shows that the “’punk’ psychology” which Putin has made the centerpiece of its domestic policy has not become “the core of its foreign […]
Staunton, July 20 Soviet and Russian censuses have always been used for political purposes even if that has required massive falsification. Stalin scrapped the 1937 enumeration entirely, and scholars have identified massive distortions in the 2002 and 2010 counts. But rarely has Moscow announced in advance that its purposes were political, something which makes falsification […]
Staunton, July 18 – Tomsk State University has announced the program for an academic conference to be held in October 2014 on ethnic identity. Eleven speakers are addressing issues about Siberia, and the titles of their talks, a Siberian portal says, permits “speaking about a Siberian nation, a Siberian political elite and the concept of […]
Staunton, July 18 – Those guilty of shooting down the Malaysian airline include “not only the [pro-Russian] militants but above all those who sent them to kill, who armed them and who inspired them – Putin and his junta,” Moscow commentator Igor Eidman says, and that makes the current Russian regime “more dangerous” than the […]
Staunton, July 18 – Whatever the investigation determines is “the level of direct or indirect responsibility” for the shooting down of the Malaysian airline, Tatyana Stanovaya says, “the reputations of the country and of Vladimir Putin personally” have suffered a serious “hit,” yet another indication that “the price of geopolitical games” in this region is […]
