Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for April 14-19, 2021

Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for April 14-19, 2021  

1.      Duma Passes Law Allowing Russian Firms to Steal and Use Foreign Medical Secrets without Permission

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2.      Seizing Water Supplies for Russian-Occupied Crimea ‘Number One Task’ for Putin, Illarionov Says

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3.      Lithuania’s Sajudis Remembers Dudayev as 25th Anniversary of His Assassination Approaches

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4.      Central Asia’s Turkic Countries Assume Leading Roles in Expanded Pan-Turkic Organization

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5.      Russian Young Not Significantly More Liberal across the Board than Those in Their 30s and 40s, Zavadskaya Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/russian-young-not-significantly-more.html   

6.      Moscow Human Rights Activists Come to Essentuki to Support Ingush Seven

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/moscow-human-rights-activists-come-to.html

7.      By Calling Putin and Not Raising Navalny Issue, Biden has ‘Betrayed Democratic Russia,’ Activists Say

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8.      Vaccinations in Russian Military Rise as Increase Stalls in Many Cities

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9.      Putin’s Moves in Ukraine Part of Broader Effort to Destroy International Rules of the Game and Force West to Recognize His Right to Do So, Skobov Says

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10.  Russia’s Demographic Decline will Limit Its GDP Growth to Under Two Percent a Year, HSE Study Says

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11.  Russia Violating International Law by Closing Kerch Straits to Naval Vessels until October, Kyiv Says

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12.  Buryat Identity has Degraded in Much the Same Way Rwandan Identity Did Before the Genocide, Ochirov Says

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13.  Kadyrov’s Chechnya Only North Caucasus Republic Where No Women are in Power Structures

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/kadyrovs-chechnya-only-north-caucasus.html   

14.  Guide to Russian as Spoken in Vladikavkaz Becomes a Best Seller

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/guide-to-russian-as-spoken-in.html

15.  Russia Now Vaccinating 200,000 a Day but at That Rate Pandemic Will Last into 2023

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16.  A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week

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17.  Specialization and Trade Keys to Success in Regions, But Non-Russian Areas Lag in Both, HSE Says

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18.  Putin Stagnation May be Even Deeper and More Damaging than Brezhnev’s Was, Rogov Says

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19.  Thirty Years after Regaining Independence, Baltic Countries Test Turning Off Electric Power from Russia and Belarus

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/thirty-years-after-regaining.html

20.  Moscow and Magas Planning to Arrest Even More Participants in March 2019 Ingush Protest, Lawyer Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/moscow-and-magas-planning-to-arrest.html    

21.  Russia Approaching Something Like Situation in 1905-1906, El Murid Says

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22.  Russia Now at ‘Unstable’ Plateau in Pandemic is Concerned, Epidemiologists Say

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23.  Nominating Putin for Another Term Could Trigger Mass Protests and a Revolution, Gallyamov Says

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24.  ‘Era of Legal Politics in Russia has Ended,’ Konstantinov Says

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25.  Where Putin Street Intersects with Stalin Street – and Other Oddities of Toponomy in North Caucasus

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26.  New Union Treaty Would have Hurt Russia by Giving Non-Russian Republics Extraordinary Powers over It, Kulbaka Says

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27.  Kremlin has Won a Tactical but Not a Strategic Victory over Russian Opposition, Semyonov Says

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28.  ‘Russia is ‘De-Europeanizing”’ Because Russians Lack a Sense of Their Own Future, Levada Center Polls Suggest

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29.  Moscow’s Response to Pandemic Puts Russia on Course to Fall Behind Indonesia Economically by 2030, Liberal Mission Study Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/moscows-response-to-pandemic-puts.html

30.  Evolving Meaning of Nationality and Language from Census to Census Makes Comparisons Problematic, Shaydullin Says

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31.  Moscow Now Planning to Build ‘Prison Cities’ Far from Regional Centers

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/moscow-now-planning-to-build-prison.html

32.  Ingush Activists Organize Flash Mob to Honor Akhmed Barakhoyev on His Birthday in Jail

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33.  Moscow Again Focusing on Rusins of Western Ukraine

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34.  Grandchildren of Aging Post-Soviet Dictators Emerging as a Problem, Kari Says

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35.  Declaring Navalny Groups ‘Extremist’ Sets Stage for ‘Unprecedented Expansion of Repression in Russia,’ Golosov Says

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36.  Estimated Immune Rates in Russia Vary from 25 Percent in Some Regions to 87 Percent in Others

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/estimated-immune-rates-in-russia-vary.html  

37.  Beyond the Ring Road, Russian Identity is Dissolving and Regionally-Based Proto-Nations are Emerging, Chadayev Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/beyond-ring-road-russian-identity-is.html  

38.  Iran Makes Another Move in Central Asia

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/iran-makes-another-move-in-central-asia.html

39.  More than Half of Russians Consider Extra-Marital Sex and Divorce Morally Acceptable, Levada Center Poll Finds

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/more-than-half-of-russians-consider.html

40.  Moscow’s Efforts to Hold Russians in North Caucasus have All Failed, Experts Say

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41.  Tensions along Russian-Kazakhstan Border over Territorial Shifts in Russia’s Favor Growing 

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/tensions-along-russian-kazakhstan.html

42.  Kremlin’s Real Fear is that Protests will Undermine State Administration, Gallyamov Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/kremlins-real-fear-is-that-protests.html

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