Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Feb. 1-6, 2021
1. Pandemic Not Under Control Everywhere in Russia, Officials Admit
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2. Moscow Says Final Status of Qarabagh Remains Open but is Too Explosive to Discuss Now
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3. Navalny’s Return ‘has Shortened Life of Putin Regime but Lengthened Russia’s Path to Democracy,’ Pastukhov Says
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4. ‘Wild 1990s’ have Ceased to Frighten Russians, Kremlin Polling Shows
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5. Navalny’s Ethnic Prejudices May Not have Changed but His Use of Nationalist Rhetoric Has, Verkhovsky Says
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6. Telegram Channels Now Publishing Names and Addresses of Russian Siloviki in Regions
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7. Neither Powers nor Protesters Now Staying within the Law, Shaburov Says
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8. Academy of Science Experts Call for Return to Soviet-Style Five Year Plans to Boost Recovery
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9. Khrushchev Killed Beria in Part to Block Leaders from Giving Power to Their Children, Moscow Journalist Says
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10. Ukrainians in Donbass Dominated Record Number of Foreigners Taking Russian Citizenship in 2020
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11. Senior Religious Leaders Back Kremlin against Navalny Protests but Many Lower-Ranking Ones Take Opposite Line, Lunkin Says
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12. New Bashkir National Strategy Looks Far Better than ‘Toothless’ Tatar One But May Entail Unexpected Risks, Sidorov Says
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13. Navalny Protests Treated Very Differently by the Kremlin and the Russian People than were the Ingush Ones in 2018-2019, Chemurziyev Says
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14. ‘Indifference Saved Religion in Soviet Times’ But Laid Foundations for Putin Worldview, Newly Translated Study Says
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15. Focused on Exports, Russian Economy Suffered Less and Will Rebound More Quickly than Others, Moscow Experts Say
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16. Navalny Changing Rules of the Game in Moscow by Challenging the Kremlin’s, Skobov Says
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17. Treatment of Navalny Forcing Some but Far from All Russians to Recognize What Putin Regime has Been All Along, Inozemtsev Says
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18. Putin’s NEP Over, Pavlova Says
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19. Russian Liberals Must Refocus Their Attention from Protests to the Bureaucracy, Lev Gudkov Says
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20. Russian Guard Now has 50 Percent More Soldiers than Russian Ground Forces Do, Reflecting Putin’s Fears and Priorities, Malgin Says
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21. Kremlin Increasingly Operating Northern Sea Route as a Corporation, Luzin Says
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22. Gorbachev Backs Nobel Prize for Sputnk-5 Inventors But Putin Still hasn’t Gotten Shots
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23. Kremlin Overrated Navalny Threat and Navalny His Prospects, Pastukhov Says
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24. Novosibirsk was Almost Called ‘Kurultay’ to Appeal to Siberia’s Indigenous Non-Russians, Golodayev Says
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25. Street Protests Alone Not Enough to Bring Down Entrenched Dictatorships, Konstantinov Says
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26. Ingush Seven Case Continues to Fall Apart Attracting International Attention
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27. Putin’s Favorite ROC Prelate Uses Pskov Base to Promote Himself as ‘Enlightened Russian Nationalist’
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28. ‘Why Not Tsaritsyn?” — Most Volgograd Residents Opposed to Restoring the Name Stalingrad, Polyanskaya Says
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29. Russians Upset Moscow Sending More Vaccine Abroad than It is to Regions at Home
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30. Far North Rapidly Becoming ‘Third Islamic Macro-Region of Russia,’ Experts Say
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31. Pandemic Failed to Eclipse Circassian Movement and has Given It New Opportunities, Activists Say
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32. Russians Again Worried about Cossack Separatism
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33. Putin’s Approach ‘Absolutely Bolshevik but without Ideological Justification,’ Vitukhnovskaya Says
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34. Loyalty Not Need to Be Key Test for Kremlin Aid to Federal Subjects, Putin Decrees
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35. Police in Regions will Avoid Provoking Protesters and May Even Join Them; Those in Capitals Won’t, Former Ivanovo Officer Says
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36. Western Outlets Praise Russian Vaccine; Russian Outlets Trash Western Ones
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37. Tribalism Long Source of Unity among Kazakhs Must Become So Again, Kumekov Says
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38. For First Time since 1992, Moscow’s Population Declined in 2020
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39. Soviet-Style ‘Kommunalkas’ Making a Comeback in Moscow
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40. St. Petersburg Authorities Take Action to Suppress Protest No One Called for and that Didn’t Occur
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41. Russians Must Not Compromise with Putin’s Fascist Regime but Resist It by Refusing to Obey Its Laws, Skobov Says
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42. Russian-Occupied Crimea Running Out of Water – with Moscow Now Searching for Way Out
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