Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for August 23-28, 2020
1. Moscow has Failed to Adjust Inflation Metrics Despite Pandemic-Induced Changes in Their Basis
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2. Central Asians in Russia Caught Between Rising Hostility There and Declining Help from Their Own Governments
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3. Belarus’ Situation Now as Hopeless as Poland’s Was in September 1939, Felshtinsky Says
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4. Lukashenka Warns He Will Respond Harshly to Political Activity by Churches and Believers
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5. Queer Culture Re-Entering Russia’s Cultural Mainstream, Swedish Scholar Says
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6. Moscow Shuts Down Key Source on Ingush Events
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7. Five Kremlin Governors at ‘”High Risk” of Losing,’ Opening Way to Repeats of ‘Khabarovsk Scenario,’ Minchenko Consulting Says
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8. Most Russians Doubt ‘Sputnik-5’ Vaccine Safe and Effective and Won’t Take It, VTsIOM Poll Says
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9. Zarifa Sautiyeva: From Student of Russian Political Oppression to One of Its Victims
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10. Is Lukashenka About to Dress Up His Siloviki as Lithuanian NATO Soldiers to Force Moscow’s Hand? Pastukhov Asks
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11. Russian Court Sentences Dilmukhametov to Nine Years in the Camps for Advocating Federalism
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12. Assassination Attempt on Navalny Sign of ‘Erosion of Power’ of Russian Regime, Stanovaya Says
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13. Tatarstan Villagers Protest Planned Route of Moscow-China Highway
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14. Russian Government Backs Imposing Ten-Year Prison Term on Those Promoting Separatism
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15. Russian Coronavirus Vaccine Approved for Required Third Stage of Testing Only Today
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16. Kremlin Attacked Navalny to Block His Leading Belarus-Type Protests in Russia, Ryklin Says
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17. Moscow Patriarchate’s New Man in Minsk at Least a Belarusian Born in Belarus
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18. Why is Kushtau So Important to Bashkirs?
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19. Patriarch Kirill Moves to Restore His Control over Russian Orthodox Church
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20. Circassians at Home and Abroad Call on KBR Head to Block Moscow’s Illegal Actions
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21. Russian Court Drops Most Serious Charge against Ingush Activist But Orders His Detention Extended Anyway
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22. Plan to Give Each Russian Vaccinated against Coronavirus Unique Number Likely to Push Down Number Agreeing to Inoculation
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23. US Wants to Use Eastern Turkestan, ‘China’s North Caucasus,’ against Beijing, Moscow Analyst Says
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24. ‘Zeroing Out’ Putin’s Terms Leading to ‘Zeroing Out’ of His Political System, Shtepa Says
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25. A Fourth Muslim Spiritual Directorate in Mordvinia Could Lead to Collapse of MSD System
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26. Russia Now Building Only a Third as Many Kilometers of New Roads than It Did at Start of Putin Era, UN Report Says
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27. Moscow Looking for Ways to Justify Military Intervention in Central Asia, Baku Analyst Says
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28. Moscow Warning Other Post-Soviet States about Threat Belarusian Events Present to Them
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29. Moscow Now Sending Mixed Messages about Vaccines
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30. Moscow Set to Close Thousands of Rural Post Offices, Inflicting Fatal Blow to Many Villages
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31. Kabard Artist in Amann Says Her Mission is to Attract Attention to Circassian Traditions
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32. Beijing Wants Moscow to Restore USSR at Least in Part, Russian Journalist Says
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33. West has Failed ‘the Belarus Test,’ Shevtsova Says
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34. Collective ‘Network’ Action Why Protests in Khabarovsk and Belarus are Lasting So Long, Paneyakh Says
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35. Moscow Rapidly and Permanently Alienating Belarusian People, Shvets Says
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36. More than Twice as Many Russians Doubt New Moscow Vaccine as Take Pride in It, Levada Survey Finds
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37. Unemployment in Regions and Republics Far Larger Problem than in Major Russian Cities, Inozemtsev Says
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38. Orthodoxy in Belarus More Likely to Resemble Estonian Situation in Estonia than Ukrainian One, Russian Experts Say
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39. Russians Being Convicted of Treason in Last Decade at Ten Times the Rate during the Previous One, Court Statistics Show
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40. Belarus has been Transformed Regardless of Whether Lukashenka Survives with Putin’s Help, Shelin Says
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41. Belarus Protests, Like Prague Spring and Polish Solidarity, Likely to Be Followed by Years of Repression, Savvin Says
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42. ‘Dedovshchina’ in Russian Military hasn’t So Much Ended as ‘Evolved,’ Soldiers and Experts Say
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