Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Dec. 15-20, 2020

Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Dec. 15-20, 2020      

1.      Putin Health Care Cutbacks Continue Even During Pandemic

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2.      Russian Population Set to Decline by 600,000 or More This Year — and Not Primarily Because of Pandemic, Zhelenin Says

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3.      Putin ‘Saving Pashinyan’ for Use in Renewed Great Game in the Caucasus, Tarasov Says

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4.      Share of World’s People who Speak Russia, Already Declining for a Century, Projected to Fall 50 Percent More by 2050

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5.      Ingushetia Residents have Highest Level of Legal Knowledge in Russian Federation

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6.      Intelligence Services Overrated, Independent Researchers Underrated, Mironov Says

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7.      Clashes Continuing in Qarabagh Because of Confusion over Areas of Control

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8.      Pandemic Responsible for Less than One Third of Rise in Russian Deaths This Year over Last

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9.      Russians Suffering from Soviet-Induced PTSD Beginning to Recover, Farmer Says

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10.  Russia’s Icebreaker Fleet Suffers Another Embarrassment – This Time on Way to Antarctic

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11.  2021 will be a Year of Dashed Hopes in Russia, Zubarevich Says

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12.  Rise of ‘Silovarchy’ Another Sign of Decay of Russian Governance, Gallyamov Says

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13.  To Combat Pandemic, Governors Make Obligatory what Moscow Merely Recommends, Degtyarov Says

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14.  Prosecution Witnesses in Ingush Seven Case Helping Defense, Lawyers Say  windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/12/prosecution-witnesses-in-ingush-seven.html

15.  Coronavirus Skepticism in Russia Increases, Slowing Demand for Vaccine

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16.  Obscure Cossack Host that Carried Out Pogroms against Chinese and Fought for Soviets Recalled

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17.  Moscow Analysts Publish First Book on Use of Drones in Latest Qarabagh Fighting

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18.  North Ossetian Statement about Defining Border with Ingushetia Dangerous, Ingush Minister Says

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19.  Russian Persecutors of Jehovah’s Witnesses Will Eventually have to Explain Why They Committed This Crime Against Humanity, Kolymagin Says

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20.  With Rare Exceptions, Russian Naval Construction in Disastrous Shape, Makiyenko Says

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21.  Ten Percent of Kazakhstan Residents Plan to Emigrate – and a Third of Those are Ethnic Kazakhs, New Study Finds

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22.  Moscow Hopes Vaccine Will End the Pandemic but So Far Few Russians have Been Vaccinated

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23.  Putin’s Attempt to Save Reputation of Special Services Backfiring, Gallyamov Says

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24.  Putin Can’t Be Leader of Unified Russian People because Such an Entity Doesn’t Exist, Milin Says

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25.  Putin Says Fresh Water Supplies under Azov Sea Can Reverse Mounting Crisis in Crimea

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26.  Putin, Tsar-Like, Hands Out Gifts as Substitute for Addressing Fundamental Problems, Preobrazhensky Says

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27.  Putin Preparing Russia for ‘Protracted Siege,’ Stanovaya Says

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28.  Questions, Answers and Structure Made Putin’s 16th Press Conference Most Shameful Yet, Yakovenko Says

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29.  Criticism of Russian Vaccine by Foreigners Intended to Give Them Competitive Advantage, Kremlin Says

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30.  Despite All Changes in Name, Russia has Always Been and Remains an Empire, Inozemtsev and Abalov Say

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31.  Logic of Intersecting Imperial ‘Near Abroads’ Driving Moscow’s Approach to Its Neighbors, Inozemtsev Says

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32.  More Behind New Restrictions in Ingushetia than Just the Coronavirus Pandemic

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33.  Shiyes Protesters Refuse to Leave Until Area of Planned Dump for Moscow Trash Restored

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34.  Defense Witnesses Again Show Falsity of Charges against Circassian Activist, Memorial Says

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35.  Armenian Scholar Argues Azerbaijanis in Iran and Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan are Separate and Distinct Ethnic Groups

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36.  Ever More Categories of Muscovites Getting Vaccine Even Before Anyone in Regions Does

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37.  Call for Restoring Dzerzhyinsky Statue in Lubyanka Square Highlights Divisions in Russian Society

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38.  Russia’s Forests Need to be Saved Not Just from Fires but from Moscow, Activists Say

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39.  Putin’s Lack of Any Goal Beyond Retaining Power Casts Dark Shadow on Future, El Murid Says

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40.  Moscow Scholar Sees No Problem in Beijing’s Putting Han Chinese in Charge of Ethnic Minorities

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41.  Producing Doctors Not Enough if Russian Medical System Can’t Prevent Them from Leaving the Profession, Malenky Says

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42.  Supposedly Protected Data in Russia Increasingly Up for Sale, New Study Finds

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