Saturday, August 26, 2023

Putin has Far More Reason than His Predecessors to Want Russians to Forget Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, ‘RusMonitor’ Says

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  Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 23 – Eighty-four years ago, the Soviet and Nazi regimes signedwhat became known as the Molotov-Ribb...

Russian Officials Likely to Quote Putin as Soviet Ones Did Lenin Rather than Come Up with a Clearly Defined State Ideology, Barbashin Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 20 – Many in Russia want and many in the West expect that eventually Moscow will define a state ideo...

Ukraine Fighting Not Only Against Russian Invaders but Against Westerners who Would Welcome a New Cold War, Pastukhov Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 20 – Ukraine’s decision to continue to fight until Russia is defeated and perhaps dismembered brings...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Non-Russians who have Fled Authoritarianism at Home May Soon Get Jaakson-Style Passports from Exile Governments

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 20 – Between 1940 when the Soviet occupation of Estonia began and 1991 when that Baltic nation’s de ...

Russians Say They’re Not Interested in Putin’s Yacht but They would Like to See His Coffin

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 20 – The Russian media have been talking a lot about Vladimir Putin’s personal yacht. But many Russi...

Resistance Movement for Sakha Independence Issues Programmatic Declaration

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 20 – Earlier this month, in the wake of the Tokyo Forum of Peoples of Post-Russia, national activist...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Compared to Original, Putin’s Neo-Stalinism ‘Much More Politically Flexible,’ Dobrenko Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 22 – Putin’s neo-Stalinism resembles its namesake in many ways, but it is “much more politically fle...