Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Aug. 12-17, 2021

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Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Aug. 12-17, 2021

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1.      Denials Notwithstanding, Compulsory Vaccination against Covid Coming to Russia, Observers Say

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2.      Anti-Semitic ‘Russian Party’ of Soviet Times Now in Power, Yakovenko Says

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3.      Is Shoygu Preparing to Become Russian President?

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/s-shoygu-preparing-to-become-russian.html 

4.      Expert Witness Testimony Set to Play Increasingly Deleterious Role in Russian Trials

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/expert-witness-testimony-set-to-play.html 

5.      Playing Ethnic Card During Duma Election Campaign Exacerbating Russia’s Relations with Central Asia

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6.      Russian Siloviki Now Focusing on Money Transfers to Bring Extremism Charges

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7.      Three Ideological Programs Competing in Bids to Unite Russia, Khaldey Says

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8.      Number of Russians Getting Vaccinated Each Day Falls by Almost Two-Thirds Since July

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

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10.  August 1991 Putsch Saved Centralist Imperial Approach Yeltsin Wanted, Shtepa Says

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11.  Kremlin Moves Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses First on Russia’s Periphery

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/kremlin-moves-against-jehovahs.html 

12.  Putin Could Declare Himself Emperor without Problems but He Likes a Show, Pastukhov Says

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13.  Russia Resembles a Cemetery Through Which an Armed Man is Walking, Martynov Says

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14.  Russia Failed to Meet Discovery Targets This Year for Arctic Oil, Gas and Other Strategic Minerals

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15.  Far More Russians Per Capita have Been Infected with Coronavirus than Most Other Leading Nations

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16.  Landsbergis Recalls the Other Democratic Russia Sergey Kovalev Represented

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17.  Moscow Drafting Legislation Allowing Government to Control All Consumer Prices

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18.  Political Parties in Russia Best Understood as Quasi-Religious Sects at War with Orthodox State, Ignatovsky Says

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19.  Corridor Competition between Armenia and Azerbaijan Heats Up

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20.  BAM Could Prove a Bottleneck for Russian-Chinese Cooperation, Apukhtin Says

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21.  Shoygu’s Plan for Siberian Cities has Roots in Tsarist and Stalinist Times, Experts Say

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22.  Tens of Thousands of Russians who Think They’ve Been Vaccinated May have Been Given a Placebo, Investigators Say

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/tens-of-thousands-of-russians-who-think.html     

23.  Turkmenistan May Not be ‘Weak Link’ Against Taliban Moscow Suggests

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/turkmenistan-may-not-be-weak-link.html

24.  Pashinyan Wants Talks with Baku But with OSCE Rather than Russia Playing Key Role

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25.  Khrushchev’s Transfer of Crimea to Ukraine Part of Larger Reorganization and Could have Been Reversed by Subsequent Soviet Leaders, Artemyev Says

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26.  27 Percent of Russia’s Creative Workers Concentrated in Moscow

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/27-percent-of-russias-creative-workers.html 

27.  Kyrgyzstan Long Counted a Water Surplus Country Now Suffering Serious Water Shortages

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/kyrgyzstan-long-counted-water-surplus.html    

28.  Ingush Constitutional Court Chief and Yabloko Candidate for Duma Promises to Seek Release of All Political Prisoners in the Republic

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/ingush-constitutional-court-chief-and.html 

29.  Just Russia Party Organizes Anti-Distance Learning Conference

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/just-russia-party-organizes-anti.html 

30.  Kremlin’s ‘Ethnic Mobilization’ of Russians Designed to Distract Attention Rather than Attract Support, Sidorov Says

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31.  The US Knows that If Russia Disintegrates, China Will Advance to the Urals, Sivkov Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-us-knows-that-if-russia.html 

32.  What the August 1991 Coup Did and What It Didn’t

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33.  Moscow Pursuing ‘Empire 3.0’ with Overwhelming Popular Support, Prokhorov Says

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34.  Failed Legal System Makes Defense of Women’s Rights in North Caucasus a Sisyphean Task, Anokhina Says

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35.  ‘With or Without Lukashenka,’ Belarus Risks Becoming Another ‘Anti-Russia,’ Shiyenko Says

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36.  Online Services during Pandemic Allowing Mosques to Reach More Believers, Russia’s Muslim Leaders Say

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/online-services-during-pandemic.html 

37.  More than 80 Percent of Russians Tell VTsIOM They hadn’t Heard about August 1991 Coup Before Pollsters Asked

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/more-than-80-percent-of-russians-tell.html  

38.  Russians No Longer Seduced by West and So Nothing Threatens Putin, Shapovalova Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/russians-no-longer-seduced-by-west-and.html    

39.  Taliban’s Influence in Central Asia and North Caucasus Worries Moscow, Shelin Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/08/talibans-influence-in-central-asia-and.html 

40.  Muslim Draftees in Russian Military Increasingly Disobeying Orders on Religious Grounds, Colonel Says

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41.  Siberian Historian who Called Nevsky a Collaborationist and Said Ice Battle was Eisenstein’s Fantasy in Hot Water with Authorities

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42.  Kremlin Dips into Reserve Fund to Triple Its Spending for Online Propaganda

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