Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for April 26-May 1, 2021
1. Is Shortage of Refrigerators in Clinics Holding Up Vaccination Program in Russia?
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2. Turkic Countries Aren’t Following Ankara in Denouncing US for Recognizing Armenian Genocide
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3. Moscow Thinking about Using Prison Labor Again for Major Construction Projects
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4. Thirty Years On, RSFSR Law on Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples Inspires Victims but Remains Unfulfilled
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5. Central Asian Countries Increasingly Varied in Their Migration Patterns to Russia, Kazakhstan Scholar Says
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6. Russia Odd Man Out among Arctic Countries, Pryanikov Says
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7. Moscow’s Failure to Find Effective Responses to Foreign Moves against Russia Means There will Be More of Those, Sigov Says
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8. Moscow Says Hacking of Russian Medical Labs Way Up This Year, a Sign of International Recognition of Their Success
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9. Beijing’s ‘Polar Silk Road’ Helping Russia Now But will Allow China to Dominate Northern Route Later, Volgayev Says
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10. Putin Now Targeting Social Groups He Earlier had Left Largely Alone, Skobov Says
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11. Having Retreated into ‘a Closed Conspiratorial World,’ Kremlin Feels Obliged to Crush Any Independence before It Threatens Regime, Shelin Says
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12. Kremlin’s Shift from Mass Brutality to Targeted Repression a Victory for the Opposition, Gallyamov Says
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13. Moscow No Longer Only ‘Outside Actor’ Exploiting Territorial Disputes in Central Asia, Analyst Suggests
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14. ‘Russian Political Opposition Can Be Real or Legal But Not Both at Once,’ Savvin Says
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15. Concerns about Growing Doctor Shortage in Russia Grow as Pandemic Continues
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16. Call for Talks Between Ingush Activists and Chechen Officials about Border Gets Mixed Reception
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17. Russia’s ‘Unfriendly Countries’ List Likely to Have Greater Consequences for Smaller Powers than Larger Ones, Bordachev Says
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18. Deputy Prime Minister wants to Replace Russia’s 80 Plus Federal Subjects with 21 Urban Agglomerations
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19. The Three Russias – Liberal Westernizers, Kremlin Imperialists, and ‘the Deep People’ – are Now Strangers to Each Other, Degtyanov Says
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20. Threat of Major Russian Military Operation against Ukraine and West hasn’t Disappeared, Felgengauer Says
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21. Passion for Uniforms among Officials Outward Manifestation of Putin’s Chekistocracy, Petrov Says
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22. Infections in Moscow Rise Sharply, Sparking Widespread Fear Despite Improvement Beyond Ring Road
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23. ‘Return of Former Russian Lands as Moscow’s Protectorates Only Matter of Time,’ RUSSTRAT Says
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24. Kremlin Faces Far Larger Opposition Now than in Soviet Times and More Often Uses the Courts for Vengeance, Zolotukhin Says
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25. Kremlin’s Mishandling of 20 Million Contract Employees May Lead Them to Protest, Experts Say
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26. Kremlin Foolishly Gave Navalny a Platform and He Used It Effectively, ‘SerpomPo’ Telegram Channel Says
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27. Putin, Speaking to French Businessmen, Seeks to Calm Domestic Worries about Growing Isolation of Russia, Psychologist Says
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28. Digital Divide in Russia Between Largest Cities and Everywhere Else, HSE Study Finds
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29. Fighting Pandemic, Moscow has Put Off Addressing Other Problems, Onishchenko Says
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30. A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week
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31. Moscow’s Tilt toward Dushanbe May have Triggered Armed Clash between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Russian Telegram Channel Says
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32. Psychological Barrier against War Rapidly ‘Thinning’ in Russia, Khabarovsk Psychologist Says
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33. Banned Navalny Movement Now Goes Underground with Uncertain Consequences
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34. 177,000 Russians Now in Psychiatric Prisons and Most Will Die There, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says
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35. ‘Second Russian Cross’ Threatens Ethnic Russians Even More than the First Did, Experts Say
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36. Moscow More Focused on Selling Vaccine Abroad than on Expanding Its Availability at Home
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37. Kazakhstan De-Russifying in Two Ways, Observers Say
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38. Patriarch Kirill Warns Against Tyranny in Russia, Recalls He was Asked to Be a Political Leader
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39. More Russians Now Fear Return to Mass Repression and Official Arbitrariness More than at Any time Since 1994, Levada Center’s Gudkov Says
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40. Putin’s New Repression Uniting Groups Never Allied Before
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41. Putin Doesn’t Have a Grand Design, Pastukhov Says; Instead, He’s Reacting to Events and has Become Their Prisoner
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42. Putin Failed to Achieve His Three Goals in Ukraine Because He’s Not Ready to Launch a Major War, Polish Analyst Says
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