Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for June 12 – 17, 2020
1. Moscow has Thrown Regions to Their Fates Just as It Did Union Republics at End of Soviet Times, Kasparov Portal Says
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2. Capital Flight from Russia in First Five Months of 2020 Greater than in All of 2019
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3. Region.Expert Wants Closer Ties between Non-Russian Republics and Predominantly Ethnic Russian Regions
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4. Peshkov’s Claim that Russia has No Oligarchs ‘Ridiculous,’ Parliamentarians Say
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5. Which Regions Get What from Moscow Depends on Lobbying Not Needs, Zubarevich Says
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6. Russian Mercenaries in Africa have Attracted Much Attention but Achieved Little, Sukhankin Says
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7. Renewed Focus on Justice and Effectiveness Limited by Russian History and Culture, Analysts Say
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8. Pandemic an Alibi Not a Cause of New ‘Parade of Immunities,’ Martynov Says
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9. How Bad are Things in Russia? For First Time in 15 Years, Moscow Doesn’t Publish Monthly GDP Figures
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10. ‘How Long will Buryatia Remain a Colonial Republic Fed with Crumbs from the Tsar’s Table?’ a Russian There Asks
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11. Russians Below Median have had Worst Decline in Incomes since 1980 in the World, Economic Inequality Database Shows
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12. Norilsk Tip of Iceberg as Millions of Disasters in Russian North Waiting to Happen, Expert Says
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13. Americans will Soon Face Their Own 1937, Russian Commentator Says
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14. Baikonur at 65 a Litmus Test of Kazakh Society and Kazakh-Russian Relations
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15. Absence of Ingush Among Leaders of Republic Force Structures Makes People Feel They’re ‘Under Colonial Rule,’ Fortanga Says
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16. Putin Says Russia Exiting Pandemic with Minimal Losses, While Infections and Deaths Continue to Rise and Economy Stalls
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17. Kremlin Knows Most Russians Don’t Support Amendments Despite Putin Claims, Vishnevsky Says
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18. Moscow’s Military Shrine – Another Putin Project Dividing Russians and Subverting Religion
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19. Moscow Using Fake News Law Primarily to Attack Its Critics, Agora Says
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20. Water Disputes Exacerbating Border Clashes in Central Asia
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21. Russian Persecution of Dmitriyev Recalls Dreyfus and Beilis Cases, Aleksiyevich and Others Say
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22. Activists Say North Caucasians Oppose Putin Amendments to the Constitution
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23. Kremlin has Plenty of Money for Guns But Not Much for Butter or Healthcare
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24. Constitutional Amendments ‘Annuls’ Not Just Putin’s Terms but Legitimacy of State Itself, Inozemtsev Says
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25. Moscow Marks 80th Anniversary of Occupation of Baltic States by Celebrating Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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26. Putin Amendment Said to Ban Giving Russian Territory to Other Countries Doesn’t in Fact Do That, ‘Velikoross’ Writer Says
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27. Another Reason There are No Ex-KGB Officers – the FSB Won’t Let Them Quit
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28. Pandemic has Helped Putin Recover Support for Constitutional Amendments, Volkov Says
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29. Russians Clearly See Negative Futures for Their Country But No Positive One, Levinson Says
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30. In Current Crisis, Russia’s Wealthy Set to Flee Abroad, Middle Class Sinking into New Poor, and Workers Reduced to Penury
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31. Moscow’s Failure in Belarus Only Driving Other Post-Soviet States Further Away from Russia, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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32. ‘Change the Rulers Not the Constitution!’ – Russian Voices from Beyond the Ring Road
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33. Is Elder Sergiy’s Revolt Part of an Effort to Bring Down Moscow Patriarch Kirill?
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34. First Russian Summertime Vote in 16 Years Makes Falsifications More Likely
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35. Sedentarization Compounded Crime of Collectivization in Kazakhstan, Experts Say
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36. Mass Cancellation of Victory Parades Deprive Putin of Bounce Before Referendum
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37. Putin’s Declining Popularity Rating May Be Triggering a Struggle within the Kremlin, Gallyamov Suggests
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38. Seven Russians Out of Ten Say There’s No Need for a Victory Parade, Belanovsky Group Survey Finds
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39. Delimiting Caspian Seabed Will Be More Difficult than Delimiting the Surface Was, Iranians Say
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40. Yeltsin Ensured that the KGB Survived as the FSB, Popkov Says
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41. Putin Fears Losing Control over the Duma, Preobrazhensky Says
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42. Putin Increasingly Reacting to Events Rather than Defining Them, Petrov Says
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