Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for May 2-7, 2021
1. Pandemic Shows How Easily Russians Can Be Regimented and Controlled, Scholar Says
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2. United Russia Candidates by Acting as If Nothing has Changed Setting Themselves Up for Defeat or for Protests Later, Gallyamov Says
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3. New Russian Novel about Izhevsk Family in First Putin Years Highlights Eternal Problems of Fathers and Sons
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4. Russian Far East ‘Far East’ Only for Moscow Not for Its People, Siberian Émigré Writer Says
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5. Western Programs Behind Increase in Border and Enclave Disputes in Central Asia, Prokhvatilov Says
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6. Share of Russian Youth Not Working or in School Rose Sharply During Pandemic, HSE Study Says
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7. ‘Russia has Already Lost Ideological War in Kaliningrad to a Western Blitzkrieg,’ Vypolzov Says
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8. Even if Moscow Faces New Wave of Pandemic, City Officials Say They Don’t Plan to Impose New Restrictions
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9. Ingush-Chechen Meeting Attracts Widespread Attention But Divides Ingush Society
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10. Navalny Overcoming Divide between Creative Class of Major Cities and ‘Deep People’ Elsewhere, Bilunov Says
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11. In Russian North, Military Towns Expanding while All Others are Declining, Rosstat Reports
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12. Political Fallout from Chernobyl Destroyed Soviet Bloc and then the USSR, Sakharov Center Conference Participants Say
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13. The Longer Putin Stays in Office, the Less Likely Russia will Survive in Its Current Borders, Pastukhov Says
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14. Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Clash Like Recent Qarabagh War Highlights Russia’s Loss of Influence in Former Soviet South, El Murid Says
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15. Fewer than Half as Many Russians Attended Easter Services This Year than Did in 2019
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16. Moscow Promoting Shift to Russian among Non-Russians to Change Their Self-Identifications, Shaydullin Says
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17. Moscow Denounces West for Calling Beijing’s Policies on Uyghurs Genocide
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18. Regional Amalgamation Call ‘Completely Undermines’ Country, Russia’s Federative Party Says
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19. Moscow Trying to Defeat Pandemic the Way It Defeated Germany, By Sacrificing Its People, Inozemtsev Says
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20. Russia Can Recover Only if Moscow Addresses Problems of Middle Class as Well as Those of the Poor, Kuzminov Says
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21. Russians More Focused on Navalny than on Ukrainian Crisis or on the Kremlin’s Diplomatic Moves, Levada Center Poll Finds
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22. After Lukashenka Goes, NATO and EU Must Offer Belarus a Path to Membership
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23. Fursov Says Western Leaders Using Pandemic to Reimpose Their Control over World
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24. Border Problems in Central Asia Now Arose Because Soviets Didn’t Want Mono-Ethnic Republics, Pritchin Says
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25. Lavrov Disowns Duma Deputies’ Comments about Russian Pretensions to Part of Kazakhstan
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26. Russians about to Mark ‘Day of Putin’s Victory over Fascism,’ Eidman Says
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27. Mekhk-Kkhel Leaders Say They Met with Chechens Not to Redraw Border but to Build Bridges between Vaynakh Peoples
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28. EU-Russian Trans-Border Cooperation Continues but Increasingly Reflects Civilizational Divide Between Them, Yarovoy Says
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29. In North Caucasus, Stalin is an Internet Meme Like Homer Simpson, Expert Says
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30. Putin Says Russian Vaccine ‘Reliable as Kalashnikov’
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31. Stalin’s System Shared ‘the Hallmarks of Hitler’s,’ Skobov Says
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32. Russia Desperately Needs but Doesn’t Have a Leftist Party Combining Social Democracy and New Trends, Inozemtsev Says
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33. An Armenian Turn to the West Could Cost Yerevan Not Only Its Position in Qarabagh but Its Control of Zengezur, Georgian Commentator Says
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34. As Kremlin Becomes More like Soviet Regime, Its Opponents are Becoming More like Soviet Dissidents, Buzin Says
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35. A Greater Share of Kazan Tatars have Left Central Asia since 1991 than Even of Ethnic Russians, Census Figures Show
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36. With Destruction of All Institutions, the Putin Regime Now has ‘a Human Face,’ Shelin Says
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37. US Researchers Say Almost 600,000 Russians have Died from Pandemic
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38. A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week
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39. Kazakhstan Begins Building a Caspian Fleet
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40. All Russia’s Systemic Parties and Most Opposition Ones are Moscow-Centric, Federative Party Head Says
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41. Some from Disbanded Navalny Staffs May Help National and Regional Movements
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42. Competition for Being Second Nationality in Republics and Regions Intensifies in Middle Volga
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