Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia for April 12-18, 2022
1. Oil and Gas Prices Up, but Russia’s Earnings from Sales of Them Down Almost 50 Percent since Start of Putin’s War, Moscow Admits
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2. Last Year, Russian Juries Found One Defendant in Three Not Guilty while Judges Found Did So for Only One in 230, Retired Federal Judge Says
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3. Moscow Wants to End Eurocentric Approach to History and Thereby Downgrade Importance of Division of Powers, Aksyonov Says
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4. Divisions among Russians on War in Ukraine Stable as They Reflect Long-Standing Patterns, Levada’s Volkov Says
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5. Russian Charities Increasingly Hard-Pressed because of Economic Crisis, War and Sanctions
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6. New Moscow Study Focuses on Identity Change among Russian Speakers in the United States
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7. Putin Doubles Spending on State Media to Promote His War in Ukraine
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8. ‘Only Complete Liberation of Russian-Occupied Parts of Ukraine will Stop Formation of Puppet Regimes There,’ Klyshch Says
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9. Putin and Empire, Not Russian Culture, to Blame for Bucha, Shtepa Says
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10. Putin Regime Lacks the Mass Support and Revolutionary Goals Hitler and Mussolini Had, Pozharsky Says
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11. Russia Committing Genocide Against Greeks in Ukraine, Community Leaders Say
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12. Russia Sets Another Record: the Longest Blitzkrieg in History, Russians Joke
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13. Ever More Ingush Thinking about Emigration Because of Putin’s War in Ukraine, ‘Fortanga’ Reports
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14. Poor Quality of Russian Officers and Soldiers Makes More Bucha-Type Crimes ‘Inevitable,’ Davydovsky Says
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15. Russia’s Technocrats Aren’t the Liberals Some Imagine but Rather the Gravediggers of Democracy, Skobov Says
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16. Ukrainian Political Nation Must Serve as Model for Non-Russian Peoples within the Russian Federation, Gabbasov Says
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17. Russian Applications for Estonian Citizenship Triple Since Start of Putin’s War in Ukraine
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18. Risks for Russia from China ‘Lesser Evil’ than Western Pressure on Moscow, Pritchin Says
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19. Even Putin’s Opponents aren’t Prepared to View Russia as an Empire that is Falling Apart, Etkind Says
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20. Putin has Only One Goal and Only Those who Want to Be Deceived Are, Skobov Says
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21. Moscow Facing Problems Attracting North Caucasians to Military Service, Kyiv Says and Russian Reports Confirm
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22. Moscow Struggling to Cover Cost of Funerals for Russian War Dead
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23. Ethnic and Religious Minorities Playing Very Different Roles in Russian and Ukrainian Forces, Sidorov Says
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24. Putin Regime Reviving Another Noxious Stalin-Era Term – ‘Kowtowing to the West’
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25. Both the Siloviki and the Oligarchs May Be Swept Away in the Coming Struggle for Power, Grashchenkov Says
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26. Bucha Horrifies Not Only Because of the Victims but Because of the Victimizers
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27. Some Russians who Fled Their Country after Start of Putin’s War Now Trickling Back
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28. Kazakhstan Overwhelmingly Opposes Putin’s War in Ukraine, but Russians Placing Their Hopes in Minority that Doesn’t
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29. Putin has Gone to War Not Only Against Ukrainians but Against Their Pet Dogs and Cats
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30. Armenian Who in 1920 Fought Against Baku’s Control of Land Bridge to Nakhichevan Continues to Divide Yerevan and Baku
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31. Russian Raping of Ukrainian Women Appears Almost Systematic, Medical Experts Say
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32. Putin’s War has Consolidated Ukrainian Identity Quickly and for the Long Term, Wynnyckyj Says
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33. Was ‘Moskva’ Carrying Piece of the True Cross?
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34. Russia has Long but Carefully Concealed Tradition of Losing Colonial Wars, Levchik Says
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35. Those who Lived in East Germany Still ‘Immunized’ against Hostility to Russia and Putin, Moscow Commentators Say
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36. Putin’s Search for Allies Sparks New Attention to Earlier Russian Emigrations to Latin America
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37. More Collateral Damage from Putin’s War in Ukraine: Moscow Closes Sites of Lake Baikal’s Defenders
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38. Russia Remains a Technically Trained but Unenlightened Country, Pastukhov Says
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39. Putin Wants a Third World War but He hasn’t Decided Against Whom to Declare It, Russians Say
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40. Ukrainian Mufti Calls on Russian Muslims to Denounce Putin’s War and Refuse to Serve in His Army
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41. Crisis in Russia Worse than the 1990s Because Country Lacks Resources Soviets Built Up or Any Help from Abroad, Kagarlitsky Says
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42. Drive in Russia to Drop Any Reference to Ukraine or Kyiv in Names of Popular Products Fizzles
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43. Foreign Architectural Firms Fleeing Russia, Raising Questions on What Will be Built and How Well
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44. Putin Targets Jehovah’s Witnesses Because He Assumes Few will Come to Their Defense, Verkhovsky Says
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45. Novosibirsk Academic Community Speaks Out Against Putin’s War in Ukraine
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46. Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS) Leader in Organizing Russian Protests against Putin’s War
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47. New Book Explains How and Why Bi-National Kabardino-Balkar Republic Survived
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48. Moscow City Struggling to Find Jobs for 200,000 Residents Losing Them as Foreign Firms Depart
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49. Kremlin Confirms Russian Troops in Ukraine Using Soviet Symbols, and Reports Say They’re Using Tsarist Ones as Well
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50. To Limit Protests to Putin’s War in Ukraine Kremlin Plays on Intelligentsia’s Distrust of the People, Kurilla Says
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