Paul Goble
Economic Crisis Leads Moscow to Cut Back on 2010 Census Plans
May 28, 2009By Paul Goble The economic crisis is forcing Moscow to cut back on the number of questions they will ask and languages they will use in the census scheduled for October 2010, reductions that will mean officials and scholars will have significantly...
Moscow Increasingly Represses Civil Society, Rights Activist Says
May 27, 2009By Paul Goble The Russian government, using both its own structures and others allied with it, is repressing civil society by means of murders, beatings and the fabrication of criminal and administrative cases, according to Lev Ponomaryev, a...
Daghestan Now Has 50 ‘Permanent Representations’ across CIS
May 26, 2009By Paul Goble Daghestan now has 50 “permanent representations” in Russian regions and CIS countries to help promote trade and to support the rights and interests of Daghestanis living there, the latest in a remarkable evolution of...
Belarus refuses to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia
May 26, 2009By Paul Goble Minsk’s Resistance on Breakaway Republics Reflects Deeper Problems in Russian-Belarusian Relations Minsk’s latest refusal to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia and even more the suggestion by some officials there...
Russia’s New ‘Ghost Towns’ Between Apathy and Explosion
May 26, 2009By Paul Goble Last week, the residents of Pikalevo, a small city near St. Petersburg, stormed the city administration there, an action that has had the effect of calling attention to a far larger and more serious problem – the 400 company...
VOA: Is Election Crisis in Moldova Part of a Pattern in ex-URSS
May 02, 2009By Judith Latham, Voice of America Moldova’s Constitutional Court has upheld the results of a vote recount that confirmed the victory of the ruling Communist Party in the nation’s April 5th parliamentary elections. The recount was initiated...
