Monday, August 24, 2026

Russian Literature Now Threatened by Both Censorship and AI, Two Phenomena which Re-Enforce One Another, Literary Critic Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 23 – In 1946, George Orwell wrote in his essay “The Suppression of Literature” that in a totalitaria...

Moscow will Promote Traditional Values but Only ‘Delicately and Subtly,’ Kremlin Aide Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 23 – Putin frequently says that Russians “sincerely value” traditional values and that he will conti...

37 Years On, Baltic Chain Continues to Inspire Non-Russians Elsewhere

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 23 – Thirty-seven years ago, some two million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians formed a human cha...

Moscow Transforming Groups which Oppose It and UsingThem Under Their Original Names to Push Its Own Line

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 20 – What the Putin regime has done to the Yamal to Its Descendants NGO represents an increasingly s...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

International Conference in Baku Denounces ‘New Wave of Persecution of Circassians’

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 23 – A conference organized in Baku by the Azerbaijani Silk Road Association which drew online parti...

Russian Elites Attitudes toward Putin have Shifted But This By Itself isn’t Yet a Threat to Kremlin Leader, Pastukhov Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug.23 – Over the past several months, the attitude of Russian elites toward Putin has become more negati...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Finno-Ugric Movement Becoming Trans-Atlantic

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 21 – Since Moscow blocked most contacts between Finno-Ugric activists outside Russia and Finno-Ugric...