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Paul Goble

Paul Goble

Paul Goble, a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious issues in Eurasia, currently prepares daily reports on developments in that region for his blog, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com. He worked earlier at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, as Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities and Special Advisor for Soviet Nationality and Baltic Affairs at the US Department of State, director of research and director of communications and technology at Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has taught at the University of Maryland, George Washington University, Georgetown University, the University of Tartu, and Audentes University in Tallinn. Trained at Miami University and the University of Chicago, he is the editor of nine volumes on ethnic and religious issues in Eurasia and has written numerous articles, chapters, and opeds on these topics. He currently lives in Staunton, Virginia. His email address is paul.goble@gmail.com

Analysis, Estonia, Feature, Poland, RussiaJune 3, 2015<June 3, 2015

For Moscow, Russia’s ‘Most Dangerous Opponent’ in Europe is Poland and ‘Most Harmful’ is Estonia, Illarionov Says

Moscow’s “black list” of European political figures who now will be denied entrance to the Russian Federation suggests that in the view of the…

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Analysis, Feature, LatviaMay 22, 2015<May 22, 2015

No ‘Frozen Conflicts’ Will Be Resolved While Russia has Veto in UN Security Council, Vike-Freiberga Says

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the former president of Latvia, points to an inconvenient truth that few want to recognize: no frozen conflicts in the former Soviet…

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Analysis, Feature, News, ViewpointMay 12, 2015<May 12, 2015

As in 1939, Kremlin Said Mulling ‘Preventive Occupation’ of the Baltic States

People of decency and good will around the world have been horrified by Vladimir Putin’s defense this week of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which made Hitler…

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Finland, NewsApril 7, 2015<April 16, 2015

How the Internet has Changed Karelia Since First Dial-Ups in 1997

Staunton – Thanks to the help of Finnish friends, Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, got dial up Internet service in 1997, even before Moscow…

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Feature, Latvia, NewsMarch 3, 2015<March 3, 2015

Moscow has Already Begun A Hybrid War against Latvia

Staunton – In words that some will dismiss as being like those of the little boy who cried wolf and that others will see…

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NewsFebruary 27, 2015<February 27, 2015

Shevtsova: Belarus, ‘Key to Baltics,’ Perhaps Even More Important for Moscow than Ukraine

Staunton – For Vladimir Putin, Belarus is “the key to the Baltic countries” as a military-strategic outpost and thus quite possibly Minsk will turn…

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Analysis, NewsFebruary 17, 2015<February 17, 2015

Putin Will Move Against Baltic Countries, if US Doesn’t Arm Ukraine

Staunton – If President Obama follows German Chancellor Merkel and doesn’t arm Ukraine, the US president will not only “be playing the role Putin…

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Analysis, Estonia, RussiaFebruary 6, 2015<February 6, 2015

Another Defeat for Putin’s ‘Russian World’ – Very Few Russians in Estonia Want to Leave

Staunton – Over the last two year period for which statistics are available, only 37 ethnic Russians moved from Estonia to the Russian Federation…

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Analysis, Feature, RussiaFebruary 3, 2015<February 3, 2015

A New Sect Emerges in Russia – ‘Putin’s Witnesses’

Staunton – Russians are ironically calling “the Network,” as the Kremlin’s new youth movement is officially known, “Putin’s Witnesses” because its members are so…

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Analysis, Feature, Latvia, LithuaniaDecember 24, 2014<December 24, 2014

Ethnic Russians in Baltic Countries ‘Love Russia but Don’t Consider It Their Home,’ New Study Finds

Staunton – Ethnic Russians living in Latvia and Lithuania “view themselves as a community and respect Russian culture but consider their native home to…

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