42 Windows on Eurasia for March 14-19, 2020

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42 Windows on Eurasia for March 14-19, 2020

 

1.      Fourth Ingush Teip to Boycott Amendment Referendum, Siloviki Begins Crackdown Against Them 

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2.      Constitutional Change a Turning Point in Russia’s History and Quite Possibly Not in the Direction Moscow Wants, Garifullin Says 

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3.      Name Change of Khakass Newspaper Reflects Bigger Political Struggle  

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4.      Constitutional Changes Make Profession of Historian in Russia Even More Dangerous, Sokolov Says 

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5.      Saving Office of Republic President Tatarstan’s Most Important Task in 2020, Fayzrakhmanov Says 

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6.      Absorption of Agin-Buryat AO by Chita Oblast has Not Been a Success, Local Officials Say 

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7.      There were Only 70 Skinheads in All of Moscow in the 1990s, Demushkin Says  

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8.      More than 900 Deputies in Regional Parliaments Did Not Vote for Putin’s Amendments 

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9.      Amendment Process and Oil Price Decision Shows Kremlin Decision-Making Mired in Chaos, ‘El Myurid’ Says 

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10.  Economics and Politics are Separate and Hostile Realms in Russia, Inozemtsev Says 

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11.  Putin has Made Constitution Correspond to His Actions and Thus Made It Unconstitutional, Pastukhov Says 

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12.  By It Silence on Putin’s Coup, Moscow Patriarchate is Losing Russia Just as It Earlier Lost Ukraine, ‘SerpomPo’ Telegram Channel Says  

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13.  ‘Dictators End Badly,’ Ryazan Protesters Say, Reminding Putin of What Happened to Ceaucescu 

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14.  Kremlin Not Alone in Using Coronavirus to Promote Obscurantism and Totalitarianism and that is a Big Problem for the Future, Berg Says 

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15.  Boycott Calls by Four Ingush Teips Less about Constitution than about Preserving Their Own Dignity, Sokolov Says 

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16.  Putin Introduces New Model of Rule, ‘a Synthesis of a Royal Court and the CPSU Central Committee,’ Martynov Says 

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17.  Tyumen Politician Says Well-Off Russians ‘at Risk’ of Being Attacked by Poor

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18.  ‘By 1928, Soviet Workers and Peasants Were Saying They’d Lived Better Under the Tsar,’ Historian Says 

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19.  Putin’s Being Asked to Rule Only Latest Example of Russia’s New Slide toward Medievalism, Luzin Says 

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20.  Pandemic Will End but Russian Economy Won’t Bounce Back and Russian State May End, Zhartun Says 

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21.  Hundreds of Russian Intellectuals Denounce Putin’s Amendments as an Unconstitutional Usurpation of Power  

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22.  Calls by Teips for Boycott of Amendments Vote May Lead Moscow to Disband Ingushetia, Akhilgov Says 

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23.  Including God and Ban on Single-Sex Marriages in Constitution a Triumph of Russian Traditionalism, Lunkin Says 

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24.  Glaciers in the Caucasus have Declined in Size by 16 Percent Since 1986, International Team of Experts Says 

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25.  Kremlin Carefully Tailoring Its Messages to Boost Participation and Approval Rate in Amendment Referendum 

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26.  Karels Repeat Demand that Their Language Become Official One in Their Republic 

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27.  Russian Cities Face Social Explosions if Migrant Workers are Laid Off, Uzbek Diaspora Leader Says 

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28.  Kremlin’s Use of ‘Registered Cossacks’ Threatens All Nations in Russia, Cossack Activist Says 

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29.  Two More Ingush Teips Call for a Boycott of April 22 Vote, Bringing Total to Ten  

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30.  Kremlin Gutting Constitutional Provisions that Allowed Russia to Join the Council of Europe, Bashqawi Says 

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31.  ‘Zavtra’ Publishes Partial List of Intellectuals who Signed Amendments Protest, Says It Should ‘Be Saved for Later’ When Such People Can Be ‘Shot’ 

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32.  Pitchforks and Barricades Appear Again at Russian Protests 

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33.  Polls Suggesting Crimean Tatars Increasingly Back Russian Anschluss Reflect Repression Rather than Reality, Shynkarenko Says 

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34.  Does Volodin’s Call to ‘Defend’ Putin Mean He is Under Threat? Some in Moscow Think So 

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35.  Putin Following Path of Yugoslavia’s Tito and with Potentially Similar Results, Savvin Says 

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36.  Ingush Boycott Won’t Prevent Magas from Claiming ’99.9 Percent’ Back Putin’s Amendments, Mokhoy Teip Leaders Say  

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37.  100,000 Sign Petition Urging Moscow Take Tougher Measures against Coronavirus but More than Half of Russians Say Threat is Exaggerated 

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38.  Soviet-Imposed Language System Collapsing in Central Asia – and Maybe in Russia Too? 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/03/soviet-imposed-language-system.html

 

39.  Leader of Small Mountain Jewish Community in Daghestan Beaten to Death  

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40.  1966 Appeal by Soviet Intellectuals Against Re-Stalinization Still Relevant, Zolotonosov Says 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/03/1966-appeal-by-soviet-intellectuals.html

 

41.  ‘Poland Would Find It Easier to Occupy the Moon than to Take Kaliningrad,’ Moscow Military Expert Says 

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42.  Putin’s Claim that ‘More than 70 Percent of Russians are Middle Class’ Dismissed as Absurd 

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