Monday, January 30, 2023

Moscow’s Making Heroes Out of Wagner PMC Criminals Carries with It Ever Greater Risks for Russia and Putin Regime, Eggert Says

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  Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 27 – In recent months, the Kremlin has made heroes out of the criminals who have gone to fight and...

Tatar Leader Could have Outplayed the Kremlin by Going Abroad and Denouncing the War in Ukraine but Chose Instead to Submit, Grigoryev Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 30 – Winston Churchill famously denounced the appeasers before World War II by saying they had chose...

Regionalism isn’t Separatism, as Europeans Know but Moscow Doesn’t, Shtepa Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 29 – There is little or no public support for the independence of Karelia from the Russian Federatio...

Putin Fails to See that Lenin, by Making Concessions to Non-Russians, Saved the Empire for 70 Years, Iampolsky Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 28 – Vladimir Putin likes to insist that Lenin “invented” Ukraine and the other non-Russian nations ...

Only Half of Residents of Russia Actually Took Part in 2021 Census, Kazan Historian Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 27 – In 2002 and 2010, approximately 93 percent of all the residents of the Russian Federation took ...

Unable to Find Real Oppositionists, the Russian Guard Now Dispersing Fashion Shows, Russians Say

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 28 – The absence of a real opposition hasn’t stopped the Russian Guard, Russians say. Instead, it co...

Kalmyk Buddhist Leader’s Ouster as Much about China as about Ukraine

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Jan. 27 – By labeling Erdin Ombadykov, the leader of the Buddhist community in Kalmykia, the CIS and Mong...