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Since Start Of Expanded War In 2022, Russians Have Increasingly Turned To Fortune Tellers And Witchcraft – OpEd

Since Putin began his expanded war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russians have increasingly turned to fortune tells and other

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Paul Goble

Unlike Stalin, Putin Will Leave Behind Not A Strong State But Only ‘Ruins’ – OpEd

In a new book, Amusing Russia. 228 Answers, Sergey Shelin argues that Vladimir Putin is concerned only with himself and

27.01.2025 5

Paul Goble

With Assad’s Ouster, Moscow Set To Lose Important Church Ally In Orthodox World – OpEd

Assad’s ouster not only is likely to cost Russia its military bases in Syria but also to drive from office

23.01.2025 6

Paul Goble

Zuckerberg Is Removing Fact-Checkers: Did He Just Have A Change Of Heart? – OpEd

By Peter Jacobsen Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, recently made a big announcement: the platforms are going to stop fact-checking

18.01.2025 4

Paul Goble

West Must Take Five Steps Now To Encourage Members Of Russian Elite To Break With Putin And Flee Abroad – OpEd

Between 1953 and 1990, more than 1200 members of the Soviet elite fled abroad, individual actions that Western governments supported

18.01.2025 20

Paul Goble

Ukraine Can Achieve Its Goals Only If Russia Suffers Strategic Defeat, Something West Isn’t Ready To Inflict – OpEd

The possibilities of ending the war in Ukraine by negotiation can be understood only if one is clear about the

14.01.2025 5

Paul Goble

Trudeau Announces He Plans To Resign – OpEd

By Patrick Carroll In a subdued press conference on Monday morning, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he plans to step down...

08.01.2025 4

Paul Goble

Narva Becomes Cultural Capital Of Finno-Ugric World – OpEd

Narva has become the cultural capital of the Finno-Ugric world for 2025 and because of its own ethnic heritage has given that title a new and...

08.01.2025 3

Paul Goble

Arnold Rüütel, ‘A Washington For Estonia,’ Dead At Age Of 96 – OpEd

At the age of 96, Arnold Rüütel passed away on Tuesday. He served as a senior official in the Estonian SSR during the occupation and later, in a...

02.01.2025 3

Paul Goble

With Trump Again Talking About Greenland, Moscow Focusing On Faeroe Islands And Their Possible Independence – OpEd

Two Danish possessions in the north Atlantic, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, are attracting increasing attention in Washington, where President-...

28.12.2024 2

Paul Goble

Beijing Rapidly Expanding Its Influence Across Russian Far East, With Putin’s Help – OpEd

Beijing has been rapidly expanding its influence in the economy and government offices of the Russian Far East, often with Vladimir Putin’s help...

12.12.2024 3

Paul Goble

Buddhist Cossacks Appear To Be Making A Comeback In Buryatia, With Ulan Ude’s Support – OpEd

Many in Moscow and the West assume to this day that all Cossacks are Russian Orthodox in religion and Russian-speaking as far as language is...

05.12.2024 10

Paul Goble

What’s Needed Now: A Calm Conversation About Whether World Would Be Better Off Without Russian Federation And What Is Needed For That To Happen – OpEd

No one should be surprised that Moscow is persecuting those who openly call for the demise of the Russian Federation, Sergey Chernyshov says; but...

04.12.2024 5

Paul Goble

Circassians Have A Chance To Lead Coming Parade Of Exits From Muscovite State – OpEd

Below is a speech I delivered online to the Second International Conference on Independent Circassia on Nov. 23. A video of this speech is...

02.12.2024 3

Paul Goble

Creeping Annexation? Moscow Expands Use Of Border Regions To Increase Influence In Neighboring Belarus – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has taken another page from Stalin’s playbook and is using the western border regions of the Russian Federation to expand Moscow’s...

28.11.2024 5

Paul Goble

Putin’s Order To Promote Patriotism Repeats Stalin’s ‘Almost Word For Word’ – OpEd

Vladimir Putin’s May 2024 directive to use history lessons in the schools to boost patriotism and a willingness to sacrifice one’s life for Russia...

23.11.2024 3

Paul Goble

Russia Now Has Two Million Homeless And Their Ranks Are Growing Because Of War In Ukraine – OpEd

Although the Russian government does not release any statistics on homelessness, the Shelter (Nochlezhka) organization, the oldest group in Russia...

21.11.2024 2

Paul Goble

West Repeating Error Of 1980s And Overrating Moscow’s Strength And Survivability – OpEd

In the 1980s, Western governments and experts overrated both the strength and likely longevity of the Soviet Union, with many assuming it would...

15.11.2024 2

Paul Goble

Russia’s More Than Two Million Homeless Live On Average 19 Years Fewer Than Those With Housing – OpEd

Homelessness has long been a serious problem in Russia, although it has existed for so long that its dimensions are typically ignored. But new...

01.11.2024 2

Paul Goble

Another Black Hundreds Group Revived In Putin’s Russia – The Union Of The Russian People – And With Official Support – OpEd

Just as took place in the last decades of the Russian Empire, extreme right and often prepared for violent Russian nationalist organizations are...

28.10.2024 3

Paul Goble

Russia: Courts Convicting Record Numbers For Treason, Espionage, And Crimes By Military Personnel – OpEd

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has released data on convictions during the first six months of 2024. They show that courts there...

22.10.2024 2

Paul Goble

Patrushev Using New Position To Promote Changes In Russian Naval Policies That Threaten The West – OpEd

When Putin transferred Nikolay Patrushev from his position as secretary of the Russian Security Council and appointed him as a presidential...

20.10.2024 1

Paul Goble

Despite Hype, Baku And Tehran Still Far From Agreement On Railway Connecting Azerbaijan And Nakhichevan Via Iran – OpEd

Rovshan Rustamov, head of Azerbaijan Railways, says he and his Iranian opposite number, Ali Zaqeri Sardrudi, have agreed on the construction of a...

17.10.2024 3

Paul Goble

If Kyiv Can Force Moscow To Pursue Total Mobilization, Russia Will Collapse And Ukraine Will Win The War – OpEd

Kyiv does not need to retake all the territory currently occupied by Russian forces to defeat Moscow, Igor Eidman says. It need only force Moscow...

09.10.2024 30

Paul Goble

Sri Lanka: Home-Grown ‘Color Revolution’ Needs Support Both From India And China – OpEd

By Kalinga Seneviratne At the height of Sri Lanka’s debt crisis two years ago, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar gave a talk at...

08.10.2024 5

Paul Goble

Russia’s ‘Silent Majority’ Doesn’t Share Putin’s Traditional Values – OpEd

A new survey says that “fewer than one percent” of Russians believe women should be restricted to the role of wife and mother while “more than 90...

08.10.2024 3

Paul Goble

Putin’s New Governor General In The Urals Faces Fateful Political Choices – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has named Artyom Zhoga, a former military man in the DNR to be the plenipotentiary for the Urals federal district, an origin that...

06.10.2024 1

Paul Goble

War In Chechnya Far From Over And Will Be Major Problem For Those Who Come After Putin – OpEd

On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the second post-Soviet Chechen war, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky says that that conflict is, despite what...

03.10.2024 10

Paul Goble

Islamist Radicalism Continues To Spread From Eastern North Caucasus Into Bi-National Republics In The Middle – OpEd

Since 1991, most of the Islamist violence in the North Caucasus has occurred in the three republics in the eastern part of that region, Dagestan,...

27.09.2024 4

Paul Goble

Ukrainian President Seeks Patriarchal Status For Orthodox Church Of Ukraine – OpEd

President Volodymyr Zelensky says that he has asked representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to raise the status of the...

26.09.2024 3

Paul Goble

Wanting To Keep Russia In One Piece Not The Same Thing As Wanting To Keep Putin In Power – OpEd

There are legitimate reasons for believing that the Russian Federation should come apart but there are also legitimate reasons for believing that...

23.09.2024 3

Paul Goble

Russian Experts Concede Caspian Water Level Falling 69 Centimeters A Year, Threatening Moscow’s Economic And Military Use Of Sea – OpEd

The decline in the water level of the Caspian Sea is now increasing so fast that Russian experts now say that it will soon threaten the ability of...

22.09.2024 10

Paul Goble

Claiming Russia Is Fighting NATO And Not Just Ukraine Helps Kremlin Keep Russians From Asking Inconvenient Questions About Failures – OpEd

The longer the war in Ukraine has gone on, the more the Kremlin and its propagandists have insisted that Russia is opposed there not by the...

18.09.2024 2

Paul Goble

Ukraine War: UN Concerned About Prohibited Weapons Transfers – OpEd

By J Nastranis UN’s top disarmament and legal officials have warned of continued prohibited weapons transfers to Ukraine and Russia. Parties to the...

17.09.2024 2

Paul Goble

Russian Nationalists Likely To Play Far Larger Role After Putin Departs – OpEd

When Putin departs from power, the role Russian may very well expand, Aleksandr Verkhovsky says; and the sooner the Kremlin leader does so, the...

17.09.2024 2

Paul Goble

Russia Has Exhausted The Power Generating Capacity It Inherited From Soviet Union – OpEd

Russia has exhausted the reserves of electric power generation left over from Soviet times, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov says, and today it has...

12.09.2024 2

Paul Goble

Because Of Ukraine War And Kremlin’s Promotion Of Toxic Masculinity, Gender Gap In Population In Russia On The Rise – OpEd

Because of war and other societal traumas in the Soviet Union, the share of men in the population of the Russian Federation is lower relative to...

08.09.2024 1

Paul Goble

Ukrainian Advance In Kursk Oblast Creating A New Reality In Russia Itself – OpEd

The Kremlin has continued to lie about the Ukrainian advance in Kursk Oblast and Western analysts have dismissed it as a tactical move to draw off...

07.09.2024 2

Paul Goble

Russian Duma Deputy Calls For Special Terrorist Prisons In Norway’s Svalbard Or In Russia’s Novaya Zemlya – OpEd

Ivan Sukharyov, an LDPR Duma deputy, is calling for the construction of special prisons for those convicted of terrorism either in Svalbard or...

05.09.2024 2

Paul Goble

The Real Kursk Question: Why Aren’t Russians Demanding War To Drive Ukrainian Forces Out? – OpEd

Aleksandr Morozov, head of the Free Russia Institute based in Vilnius, says that the Ukrainian advance into Russia’s Kursk Oblast has many...

15.08.2024 2

Paul Goble

No Ethnic Russian Region Has An Elite Ready To Seek Independence – OpEd

Despite suggestions that predominantly ethnic Russian regions will pursue independence, Aleksandr Kynyev argues in a new book that no ethnic...

09.08.2024 1

Paul Goble

Secessionist Challenges, Exploited Ny Putin, Almost Certainly Would Be Used By His Successors In Same Way And With Similar Success – OpEd

Vladimir Putin won Russian support by presenting himself as the man who stopped secessionist challenges in Chechnya and elsewhere, Abbas Gallyamov...

07.08.2024 3

Paul Goble

Last Soviet Dissidents Stand With Today’s Opponents Of Putin’s Fascism – OpEd

Aleksandr Skobov, one of the last Soviet dissidents alive and unlikely to leave the Russian prison camp where he has been confined since being...

01.08.2024 3

Paul Goble

Duma Proposal Sets Stage For Broad Attack On National Autonomies In Russia – OpEd

Mikhail Matveyev, the KPRF deputy who is deputy chair of the Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Administration, has proposed...

26.07.2024 4

Paul Goble

Church Politics Affecting Pro- And Anti-Moscow Divide In Georgia – OpEd

Nowhere have differences between the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate caused more difficulties than on the question of the status of Orthodoxy...

20.07.2024 2

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Since Start Of Expanded War In 2022, Russians Have Increasingly Turned To Fortune Tellers And Witchcraft – OpEd

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Zuckerberg Is Removing Fact-Checkers: Did He Just Have A Change Of Heart? – OpEd

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With Trump Again Talking About Greenland, Moscow Focusing On Faeroe Islands And Their Possible Independence – OpEd

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Beijing Rapidly Expanding Its Influence Across Russian Far East, With Putin’s Help – OpEd

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Buddhist Cossacks Appear To Be Making A Comeback In Buryatia, With Ulan Ude’s Support – OpEd

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What’s Needed Now: A Calm Conversation About Whether World Would Be Better Off Without Russian Federation And What Is Needed For That To Happen – OpEd

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Circassians Have A Chance To Lead Coming Parade Of Exits From Muscovite State – OpEd

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Putin’s Order To Promote Patriotism Repeats Stalin’s ‘Almost Word For Word’ – OpEd

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Russia’s More Than Two Million Homeless Live On Average 19 Years Fewer Than Those With Housing – OpEd

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Another Black Hundreds Group Revived In Putin’s Russia – The Union Of The Russian People – And With Official Support – OpEd

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Russia: Courts Convicting Record Numbers For Treason, Espionage, And Crimes By Military Personnel – OpEd

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Patrushev Using New Position To Promote Changes In Russian Naval Policies That Threaten The West – OpEd

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Despite Hype, Baku And Tehran Still Far From Agreement On Railway Connecting Azerbaijan And Nakhichevan Via Iran – OpEd

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If Kyiv Can Force Moscow To Pursue Total Mobilization, Russia Will Collapse And Ukraine Will Win The War – OpEd

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Sri Lanka: Home-Grown ‘Color Revolution’ Needs Support Both From India And China – OpEd

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Russia’s ‘Silent Majority’ Doesn’t Share Putin’s Traditional Values – OpEd

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Putin’s New Governor General In The Urals Faces Fateful Political Choices – OpEd

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War In Chechnya Far From Over And Will Be Major Problem For Those Who Come After Putin – OpEd

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Islamist Radicalism Continues To Spread From Eastern North Caucasus Into Bi-National Republics In The Middle – OpEd

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Ukrainian President Seeks Patriarchal Status For Orthodox Church Of Ukraine – OpEd

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Wanting To Keep Russia In One Piece Not The Same Thing As Wanting To Keep Putin In Power – OpEd

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Russian Experts Concede Caspian Water Level Falling 69 Centimeters A Year, Threatening Moscow’s Economic And Military Use Of Sea – OpEd

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Claiming Russia Is Fighting NATO And Not Just Ukraine Helps Kremlin Keep Russians From Asking Inconvenient Questions About Failures – OpEd

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Ukraine War: UN Concerned About Prohibited Weapons Transfers – OpEd

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Russian Nationalists Likely To Play Far Larger Role After Putin Departs – OpEd

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Russia Has Exhausted The Power Generating Capacity It Inherited From Soviet Union – OpEd

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Because Of Ukraine War And Kremlin’s Promotion Of Toxic Masculinity, Gender Gap In Population In Russia On The Rise – OpEd

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Ukrainian Advance In Kursk Oblast Creating A New Reality In Russia Itself – OpEd

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Russian Duma Deputy Calls For Special Terrorist Prisons In Norway’s Svalbard Or In Russia’s Novaya Zemlya – OpEd