Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for August 23-28, 2020

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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