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Moscow Institute Calls Tor Diverting Portions of Flow Of Two Rivers in Northwestern Russia To Occupied Portions Of Ukraine – OpEd

As tensions rise over the possibility that Russia will divert part of the flow of Siberian rivers southward to Central

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Paul Goble

Women Now Form A Quarter Of All Immigrant Workers To Russia And Suffer Disproportionately – OpEd

Women now form an estimated one in four of all immigrant workers in Russia, approximately one million in all. Most

17.11.2025 4

Paul Goble

Russian Police On The Beat Increasingly Outnumbered And Outgunned By Criminals – OpEd

In location after location across the Russian Federation, police on the beat find themselves outnumbered and even outgunned by criminals,

12.11.2025 10

Paul Goble

Support For Declaring Ivan The Terrible A Saint Again On The Rise In Russia – OpEd

In the 1990s, some Russians called for Ivan the Terrible to be canonized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox

10.11.2025 2

Paul Goble

Those In Who Say That ‘Without A Victory Over Ukraine, Russia Will Cease To Exist’ Are Living In A Past That No Longer Exists – OpEd

As Putin’s war in Ukraine drags on, some of his ideologists are insisting that “without a victory over Ukraine, Russia

06.11.2025 3

Paul Goble

Hidden Unemployment In Russia Up 150 Percent Since Start Of The Year – OpEd

The Kremlin works hard to keep its official unemployment figures low whatever the economic situation in the country, but the

03.11.2025 3

Paul Goble

Putin Won’t End War in Ukraine Because He Fears Separatism In Russia – OpEd

Among the reasons that Vladimir Putin will not end his war against Ukraine short of a decisive victory is that

29.10.2025 2

Paul Goble

Turkmenistan Moving Quickly To Become Major Sea Power On Caspian – OpEd

Until the last few years, discussions of Central Asia often ignored Turkmenistan because its policy of strict neutrality was accompanied

26.10.2025 2

Paul Goble

Putin’s New Migration Policy Directed At Preventing Ghettos Rather Than Boosting Russia’s Population – OpEd

For most of his time in power, Vladimir Putin has promoted immigration to compensate for the demographic decline of the

19.10.2025 3

Paul Goble

A Threat To Putin’s Base? Pensions Fall To Lowest Percentage Of Wages And Salaries Since 2008 – OpEd

The average pension in the Russian Federation has fallen this year to 24 percent of average wages and salaries of

13.10.2025 3

Paul Goble

Caspian’s Falling Water Level Hitting Kazakhstan Harder Than Other Littoral Countries – OpEd

Because of differences in the topography of the coastline and in the depth of coastal waters, the rapid fall in

11.10.2025 3

Paul Goble

Putin’s War In Ukraine Soon To Exceed Length Of Stalin’s Great Patriotic War – OpEd

Given the centrality of Soviet participation in World War II for Putin and the Russian people today, it is disturbing

10.10.2025 2

Paul Goble

Ethnic Russians Can And Do Assimilate To Other Nations Both Inside Russia And Abroad – OpEd

It remains an article of faith in the Kremlin and is widely accepted by many analysts in the West that

08.10.2025 3

Paul Goble

A Market Economy Coexisted With Totalitarianism Under Stalin, An Arrangement That Continues In Putin’s Russia – OpEd

Most people see a market economy and totalitarianism as antithetical phenomena and believe that where one exists, the other cannot.

06.10.2025 1

Paul Goble

Trump’s Board Of Peace May Soon Be Bored With Peace – OpEd

By James E. Jennings Last Monday’s show at the White House featured a smug-faced Prime Minister Netanyahu and a rambling,

03.10.2025 2

Paul Goble

There Is No Basis For Talking About ‘A Thaw’ In Lukashenka’s Belarus – OpEd

Many in the West in response to Lukashenka’s release of a few political prisoners suggested that “a thaw” was taking

03.10.2025 2

Paul Goble

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

28.09.2025 3

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.

25.09.2025 3

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

25.09.2025 3

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 10

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 10

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

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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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