Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for June 12 – 17, 2020   

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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