Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for July 1-6, 2021
1. Fears of Corruption Behind Some Moscow Opposition to Making Vaccinations Mandatory
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2. Moscow has Lost the Slavic World Because It is Pursuing an Ethnic Russia First Policy, Tsipko Says
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3. Drought, Coming on Top of Pandemic, Threatens Political Instability in Central Asia and Russia, El Murid Says
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4. Putin Now Defender of Bureaucracy rather than of the People, Stanovaya Says
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5. Putin Regime Purging Western-Oriented Russians and Even Treating China as Russia’s Elder Brother, Shelin Says
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6. Europe Needs Graduate Programs on Information War, Rebane Says
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7. Despite Putin’s Urging, Russia’s Major Companies Aren’t Willing to Move Out of Moscow
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8. Putin Managing to Avoid Responsibility but His Pandemic Problems Remain
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9. A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week
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10. Golden Youth Best Indicator of Where Elites Hope to Take Russia, Khaldey Says
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11. Vilnius Declares Emergency to Block Middle Eastern Migrants from Belarus, Enlists NATO Help
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12. ‘Great Turan’ as an Idea among Turkic Peoples Like Russian World among Russians, Gasanov Says
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13. Barring Radical Policy Change, Russia will Find Itself Where USSR and Latin America were in the Late 1980s, Inozemtsev Says
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14. Unlike Soviet Leaders at the End of the 1980s, Putin has No Problem with Killing Russians, Khodorkovsky Says
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15. For Fifth Day in a Row, Russia Sets Covid Death Record
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16. Urban Legends Reflected and Shaped Hopes and Fears of Soviet Citizens, New Study Says
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17. Putin Believes Only Annexing Ukraine Will Allow Russia to Be a Superpower without Harm to Its Ethnic Russian Core, Eidman Says
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18. Turkmenistan’s Population has Recently Declined Back to Where It was in the 1980s
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19. Putin Regime Now Striking Out at Organizations Helping Younger Scholars
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20. Will the September Parliamentary Elections Break the Cycle of Ingush Activism and Quietism?
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21. Russia’s Liberal Institutions will Continue to Lose Until They Focus on Horizontal Ties rather than Vertical Ones, Kirill Rogov Says
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22. Kremlin Will Impose a Lockdown by Mid-July if Coronavirus Numbers Remain at High Level, Infectious Disease Expert Says
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23. If Deputy Premiers Replace FD Chiefs, Russian System will be Even More Centralized, Grashchenkov Says
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24. Moscow’s Colonial Approach to Russian Far East and Its Development ‘Incompatible,’ Kulakov Says
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25. Ghost Towns Spreading Across Russian North with Major Cities Following Suit, HSE Study Says
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26. Neo-Medievalism in Russia about Far More than Rise of New Ruling Class, Inozemtsev Says
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27. Putin Right to Call Cultural Westernization Main Threat to His Regime, Eidman Says
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28. September Vote for Regional Parliaments Likely to Produce New Generation of Opposition Politicians, Shtepa Says
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29. To Fight Pandemic, Some Russian Regions Blocking Outsiders from Entering
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30. Putin Making Moscow Patriarchate Wealthier Even as ROC MP Loses Independence and Members, Soldatov Says
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31. Siloviki Set to Increase to More than a Quarter of Duma Membership
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32. Putin Offering Ukraine Same Deal Stalin Offered West Germany in 1952, Piontkovsky Says
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33. Moscow Promoting Integration of Belarus at Regional Level
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34. Tyva Least Integrated Part of Russia but Unlikely to Seek Independence
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35. Moscow’s New National Security Document Codifies Kremlin’s Approach to Its Own People, Its Allies, and Rest of the World
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36. Kremlin Says It Opposes Efforts by Regions to Block Outsiders from Entering But Doesn’t Stop Them
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37. Council of Teips Approves Report on Border with Chechnya Despite Bomb Threat
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38. Russian Nationalism among the Forces that Destroyed the USSR, Mlechin Says
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39. Putin’s New National Security Doctrine Ignores 85 Percent of World and Thus Russia’s Real National Interests, Shelin Says
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40. Iran Remains ‘a Stumbling Block’ to Cooperation on the Caspian, Regional Specialists Say
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41. Mari Pagans Seek Registration as All-Russian Religious Organization But Face Major Obstacles
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42. Levinson Opens New Monthly Series in ‘Novaya Gazeta’ about What Russians are Thinking About
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