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Russia’s Current Demographic Crisis ‘Far More Dangerous’ Than One In 1990s – OpEd

The demographic crisis Russia now faces is “far more dangerous” and will be far more difficult to solve than was

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Paul Goble

Why Do Westerners Still Think There’s An Islamic Threat? – OpEd

By Jonathan Power The words still ring in policy-makers’ ears from Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington’s famous treatise, The Clash of Civilizations.

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Paul Goble

Estonia Must Proactively Help Nearby Russian Regions Overcome Moscow-Imposed Consciousness – OpEd

The Forum of Free Peoples of Post-Russia has succeeded in calling attention to the fact that the Muscovite empire is

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Paul Goble

Russia Has Built Only One Icebreaker Since Putin Began His Expanded War In Ukraine – OpEd

In the more than three years since Putin began his expanded war in Ukraine, Russian yards have built only one

24.09.2025 4

Paul Goble

If Moscow Doesn’t Admit More Immigrants, Russia’s Population Will Fall More Than Half By 2100 – OpEd

If Russia admits and retains as many immigrants as it currently does for the rest of this century, its population

21.09.2025 3

Paul Goble

Moscow Hopes To ‘Stabilize’ Population In Siberian Federal District – OpEd

In an acknowledgement of how serious Russia’s demographic problems now are, the Russian government has now directed the labor, health

15.09.2025 4

Paul Goble

Putin Wants Chinese-Style ‘One Belt, One Route’ Corridor For Russia – OpEd

For most of the last three decades, Putin has made the development of the Northern Sea Route his focus for

14.09.2025 3

Paul Goble

Caspian Sea’s Declining Water Level Limits Size Of Ships Its Ports Can Handle – OpEd

The decline in the water level of the Caspian Sea, the result of global warming and decreasing flows of rivers

12.09.2025 5

Paul Goble

Another Nail In The Coffin Of Russian Villages: Rural Post Offices Closing Across The Country – OpEd

There has long been a debate about what closures in rural areas mark the approaching death of towns and villages.

03.08.2025 6

Paul Goble

Cambodian Migrant Workers In Thailand Attacked Amid Border Tensions – Interview

As border tensions between Thailand and Cambodia erupted to five days of fighting before a ceasefire was declared, reports of

31.07.2025 10

Paul Goble

United Russia Party More Flexible Than CPSU And More Sensitive To Threats To Its Position – OpEd

There is a widespread notion that today’s United Russia Party is like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and

31.07.2025 10

Paul Goble

Caspian Sea Level Has Fallen So Far That Russia And Kazakhstan Plan To Dredge Channel To Offshore Wells Between Them – OpEd

The water level of the Caspian Sea has fallen to its lowest level in recorded history, restricting the ability of

28.07.2025 4

Paul Goble

For Kremlin, Russian Generals Are Also Cannon Fodder – OpEd

Since the beginning of Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine, “a minimum” of 12 Russian generals have died, most near the

21.07.2025 7

Paul Goble

KPRF’s Repudiation Of Khrushchev’s Denunciation Of Stalin Shows Putin Set To Be Even More Repressive And Aggressive – OpEd

With its “unerring intuition,” the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has declared Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin “a mistake,” thus

20.07.2025 6

Paul Goble

Putin’s ’40-Year-Old Managers’ Increasingly Important Players In His System – OpEd

Putin’s “40-year-old managers” are increasingly important players in his political system, are committed to continuity so that they keep their

04.07.2025 3

Paul Goble

Russian-Ukrainian Talks Lead To Moscow’s Implicit Recognition It Has Political Prisoners – OpEd

One of the aspects of international negotiations often neglected by outside observers is that the greatest progress is made on

30.06.2025 4

Paul Goble

Despite What Kremlin Thinks, Moscow Shifted Crimea From RSFSR To Ukrainian SSR In 1954 For Economic Rather Than Political Reasons – OpEd

Despite what Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky says, Moscow transferred Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 not

29.06.2025 6

Paul Goble

Moscow’s Progress in Registering Individuals As Members Of Numerically Small Nations May Soon Threaten Larger Ones As Well – OpEd

Moscow is celebrating its registration of the 100,000th member of the numerically small peoples of the North and Far East...

27.06.2025 3

Paul Goble

‘Success Leads Many Astray To Their Ruin’ – OpEd

By Alon Ben-Meir The ancient quote from the Greek philosopher Phaedrus, to not let success go to one’s head and

23.06.2025 3

Paul Goble

Democratic Opposition’s Arrogant And Ill-Informed Centralism Pushing Non-Russians From Federalism To Nationalism – OpEd

The centralist convictions of Russia’s democratic opposition, ones not terribly different from those of the Kremlin, is pushing ever more

23.06.2025 8

Paul Goble

Diverting Siberian River Water To Central Asia ‘Almost Certainly’ Won’t Happen This Century – OpEd

Despite recent talk about new plans to divert Siberian river water to Central Asia, such a project almost certainly won’t

18.06.2025 3

Paul Goble

Russian Soldiers In Ukraine Involved In Protests At Home Even Before Demobilizing: Some Sparking Ethnic Conflicts In Ranks – OpEd

Russian commanders have tried without success to confiscate smartphones from their subordinates because the latter are not only getting news

12.06.2025 10

Paul Goble

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Of Russia Denounces Putin’s Re-Stalinization Policies – OpEd

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) has denounced recent changes in Russian government policy regarding the victims of

10.06.2025 6

Paul Goble

Kremlin Again Refers To Monument On Red Square As ‘Mausoleum Of Lenin And Stalin’ – OpEd

The mausoleum on Red Square is now scheduled to be closed for renovations set to take two years. Many think

09.06.2025 9

Paul Goble

When Putin’s War In Ukraine Ends, Impact On Russia Could Be Economically And Politically Explosive – OpEd

Russian economists are now suggesting that if and when Putin’s war in Ukraine ends, the consequences for Russia both economically

08.06.2025 20

Paul Goble

Reported Life Expectancy Figures In Parts Of Russia Unreliable Because Of Data Shortcomings And Outright Falsification – OpEd

Moscow has proudly noted that the residents of Moscow and the North Caucasus are among the most long-lived people on

31.05.2025 6

Paul Goble

St. Petersburg Forum Clarified Whom Putin’s Dictatorship Is For And Whom It Is Against – OpEd

For some time, even Russian officials have conceded that “there is a dictatorship in Russia,” Vladimir Pastukhov says; but they

28.05.2025 9

Paul Goble

Share Of Russians Who Say They Don’t Want Children Has Tripled Since 2005, Polls Show – OpEd

The percentage of Russians who say they do not want to have children has risen from six percent in 2005,

26.05.2025 6

Paul Goble

Iran To Resume Drilling For Oil And Gas On Caspian Seabed – OpEd

Tehran has announced that it will resume drilling for oil and gas in the Caspian. It stopped such drilling in

24.05.2025 5

Paul Goble

Duma Deputy Says Moscow Must Establish Paid ‘Holiday For Sex’ To Boost Russian Birthrate – OpEd

Georgy Arapov, a New People Party deputy in the Duma, has called on the Russian government to create a paid

22.05.2025 4

Paul Goble

The Death Of Rural Russia Reflects Both Natural Shifts And Political Decisions – OpEd

Over the last 30 years, more than 34,000 villages have disappeared from the map of Russia; and more are doing

21.05.2025 4

Paul Goble

The Inspiring Teresa Teng – OpEd

The pop star who stood for freedom By Lawrence W. Reed After the Soviet Empire expired in the 1989–91 period,

19.05.2025 6

Paul Goble

Kyiv Gains A Small But Important Victory In Istanbul: Its Delegation Brings A Translator – OpEd

Journalists from around the world have been trying to find clues as to what actually happened at the meeting of

19.05.2025 20

Paul Goble

Gap Between Number Of Children Russians Would Like And Number They Expect To Be Able To Have Growing – OpEd

Since 2005, the number of children Russians would like to have has grown from 2.4 to 3.2 but the gap

17.05.2025 5

Paul Goble

Disintegration Of Russian Federation After Loss In Ukraine ‘Defeat For Putin’s Empire’ But Not ‘End Of Russia’ – OpEd

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s observation that “Russia can be an empire or it can be a democracy but it can’t be both

12.05.2025 9

Paul Goble

Another Putin Healthcare ‘Optimization’: Junior Medical Personnel Now To Be Allowed To Act As Doctors – OpEd

Both to deal with the increasing shortage of doctors – a shortage now estimated at 23,000 – and to save

06.05.2025 4

Paul Goble

Lenin Making A Comeback In Russia Today Despite Putin’s Hostility Toward Bolshevik Leader – OpEd

A survey conducted by the Svobodnya pressa news service concludes that Lenin has never been as viewed as positively by

01.05.2025 30

Paul Goble

Insurrection Of Russian Deserters Held In Krasnodar Highlights Large And Growing Problem For Moscow – OpEd

Leaked Russian defense ministry documents say that more than 50,000 Russian soldiers had deserted during Putin’s war in Ukraine by

28.04.2025 8

Paul Goble

Putin’s War Threatens The Survival Of Russian Federation Even If A Settlement Is Reached – OpEd

Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine, as it enters its fourth year, increasingly threatens the survival of the Russian Federation and

25.04.2025 10

Paul Goble

Putin Regime Has Transformed ‘Foreign Agents’ Into Full-Blown ‘Enemies Of The People’, Record Shows – OpEd

One of the secrets of Vladimir Putin’s success in moving toward the restoration of totalitarianism in Russia is the anecdote

18.04.2025 3

Paul Goble

Crime Far From Most Serious Threat Russian Veterans Of Ukrainian War Represent, Russian Commentator Says – OpEd

Russian commentators and even officials have been discussing the likelihood that when veterans of Putin’s war in Ukraine return home,

16.04.2025 4

Paul Goble

Kyiv Views Middle Volga And North Caucasus As Likely To Be First Regions To Become Independent Of Moscow – OpEd

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a senior member of the Verkhovna Rada, says that he and others in Kyiv view the peoples of

13.04.2025 4

Paul Goble

Russia Lacks Enough Ethnic Specialists To Address Nationality Issues – OpEd

The Russian Federation currently lacks the number of ethnic specialists needed to address nationality issues, participants in a hearing of

12.04.2025 5

Paul Goble

Kremlin Helping Lukashenka Repress Belarusians By Including More Than 4,700 Of Them On Russian Wanted List – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has benefitted throughout his time as Russian president by the constant references in Russian and foreign media to

11.04.2025 8

Paul Goble

Moscow Patriarchate Taking Full Control Of Religious Life In Occupied Territories Of Ukraine – OpEd

Kremlin propagandists have succeeded in attracting worldwide attention to the ways in which the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine has moved to...

08.04.2025 10

Paul Goble

Caspian Sea’s Declining Water Levels Threaten Both Russia’s North-South Project And China’s One Belt-One Road Plan – OpEd

Declining water levels in the Caspian are reducing the amount of cargo ships on that body of water can carry

14.03.2025 3

Paul Goble

Post-Fascism, A New Totalitarian Ideology, Now Spreading ‘Especially In Russia And The US’ – OpEd

Neither Putin nor Trump is a fascist in the classical sense, and neither in fact are neo-fascists, Vladimir Pastukhov says.

13.03.2025 9

Paul Goble

Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Accord Not Universally Popular In Kyrgyz Political Elite – OpEd

At the end of February, Bishkek and Dushanbe announced the conclusion of an agreement about the disputed border between them.

10.03.2025 4

Paul Goble

Russia Scrambling To Cope With Mounting Shortage Of Policemen – OpEd

Russia is a police state with an unusual problem: it doesn’t have enough policemen to man the front lines. As

08.03.2025 3

Paul Goble

Russian Sociologist Says American Ruling Elite Now Following ‘Typically Soviet Traditions’ – OpEd

Igor Eidman, a Russian sociologist who now lives in Berlin exile, says that under President Donald Trump, the ruling elite

05.03.2025 6

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Another Nail In The Coffin Of Russian Villages: Rural Post Offices Closing Across The Country – OpEd

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Cambodian Migrant Workers In Thailand Attacked Amid Border Tensions – Interview

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United Russia Party More Flexible Than CPSU And More Sensitive To Threats To Its Position – OpEd

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Caspian Sea Level Has Fallen So Far That Russia And Kazakhstan Plan To Dredge Channel To Offshore Wells Between Them – OpEd

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For Kremlin, Russian Generals Are Also Cannon Fodder – OpEd

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KPRF’s Repudiation Of Khrushchev’s Denunciation Of Stalin Shows Putin Set To Be Even More Repressive And Aggressive – OpEd

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Putin’s ’40-Year-Old Managers’ Increasingly Important Players In His System – OpEd

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Russian-Ukrainian Talks Lead To Moscow’s Implicit Recognition It Has Political Prisoners – OpEd

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Despite What Kremlin Thinks, Moscow Shifted Crimea From RSFSR To Ukrainian SSR In 1954 For Economic Rather Than Political Reasons – OpEd

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Moscow’s Progress in Registering Individuals As Members Of Numerically Small Nations May Soon Threaten Larger Ones As Well – OpEd

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‘Success Leads Many Astray To Their Ruin’ – OpEd

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Democratic Opposition’s Arrogant And Ill-Informed Centralism Pushing Non-Russians From Federalism To Nationalism – OpEd

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Diverting Siberian River Water To Central Asia ‘Almost Certainly’ Won’t Happen This Century – OpEd

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Russian Soldiers In Ukraine Involved In Protests At Home Even Before Demobilizing: Some Sparking Ethnic Conflicts In Ranks – OpEd

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Russian Orthodox Church Outside Of Russia Denounces Putin’s Re-Stalinization Policies – OpEd

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Kremlin Again Refers To Monument On Red Square As ‘Mausoleum Of Lenin And Stalin’ – OpEd

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When Putin’s War In Ukraine Ends, Impact On Russia Could Be Economically And Politically Explosive – OpEd

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Reported Life Expectancy Figures In Parts Of Russia Unreliable Because Of Data Shortcomings And Outright Falsification – OpEd

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St. Petersburg Forum Clarified Whom Putin’s Dictatorship Is For And Whom It Is Against – OpEd

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Share Of Russians Who Say They Don’t Want Children Has Tripled Since 2005, Polls Show – OpEd

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Iran To Resume Drilling For Oil And Gas On Caspian Seabed – OpEd

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Duma Deputy Says Moscow Must Establish Paid ‘Holiday For Sex’ To Boost Russian Birthrate – OpEd

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The Death Of Rural Russia Reflects Both Natural Shifts And Political Decisions – OpEd

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The Inspiring Teresa Teng – OpEd

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Kyiv Gains A Small But Important Victory In Istanbul: Its Delegation Brings A Translator – OpEd

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Gap Between Number Of Children Russians Would Like And Number They Expect To Be Able To Have Growing – OpEd

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Disintegration Of Russian Federation After Loss In Ukraine ‘Defeat For Putin’s Empire’ But Not ‘End Of Russia’ – OpEd

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Another Putin Healthcare ‘Optimization’: Junior Medical Personnel Now To Be Allowed To Act As Doctors – OpEd

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Lenin Making A Comeback In Russia Today Despite Putin’s Hostility Toward Bolshevik Leader – OpEd

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Insurrection Of Russian Deserters Held In Krasnodar Highlights Large And Growing Problem For Moscow – OpEd

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