Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Oct. 22-27, 2020
1. Putin Blames Higher Coronavirus Figures Now on Better Diagnostics and Reporting
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2. New Cold War a Clash of Civilizations Between Russia and the West, Bartosh Says
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3. Russian Census Forms Have to Be Filled Out Only in Russian, Tuvans Report
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4. New Lezgin Head of Daghestan May Help Moscow to Put Pressure on Baku
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5. Moscow Admits What Everybody Knows: Putin’s Valdai Club All about Promoting ‘Positive Image of Russia’
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6. Instability and Uncertainty to Mark ‘New Normal’ in Post-Pandemic World, Moscow Scholars Say
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7. Five Million Fewer Russians in Central Asia and Caucasus Now than at End of Soviet Times
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8. Despite Push for Vaccinations, Putin Still hasn’t Gotten His Shots
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9. In Russia, Radical Revanchism Becoming Mainstream
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10. Reaction to Papal Declaration on Civil Unions Highlights Gap in Russia Between Church and Popular Religiosity, Pastukhov Says
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11. Impoverished Russians Won’t Protest Openly but Undermine the State, Baymukhametov Says
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12. Putin Issues Non-Denial Denial about Siloviki Pay and Benefits Cuts, Shelin Says
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13. Warming in Russia’s Tundra Zone Greater than Anywhere Else Over Last 50 Years, New Study Says
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14. New Renaming Drive in Russia Not about Politics but about Recovering Local Identities, Historian Says
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15. Not a Single Federal Subject is Now in an Epidemiological ‘Green’ Zone, Moscow Expert Says
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16. Another Ancient Orthodox Church Recognizes Ukrainian Autocephaly Despite Moscow’s Efforts to Block It
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17. Northern Sea Route More Expensive than Suez Canal for Container Shipping, German Expert Says
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18. COVID-Driven Unemployment in Central Asia New Source of Recruits for Islamic State, Tajik Journalist Says
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19. Armenian-Azerbaijani War Seen Provoking Large New Flow of Armenians to Russia
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20. MI-6 Head Warned Ukrainian President There’s a Russian Mole in His Office, Piontkovsky Says
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21. Putin’s Promotion of State Council Further De-Institutionalizes Russian Government, Petrov Says
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22. Moscow Won’t Dip in to Reserve Fund to Fight Pandemic Unless Oil Prices Tank, Siluanov Says
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23. Pandemic Weakening ROC MP Church Nomenklatura and Strengthening Community of Believers, Sitnikov Says
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24. Chechens Turned to Islam to Find Justice But Circassians Already had It, Bzegezhev Says
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25. Minsk Fighting Losing Battle Against NEXTA
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26. Rapidly Growing Town Near Moscow ‘on Brink of Revolt’
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27. Russia’s Failure to Become a Democracy Reflects Seven Major Mistakes by Democrats, Yakovenko Says
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28. Now that Russian Constitution has Been Amended, Republic Basic Laws Being Rewritten
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29. United Russia Deputy Wants to Restrict News on Coronavirus
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30. Anniversary of Prigorodny War Far More Important for Ingush People than for Ingush Government
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31. Russia’s Jews Assimilating at ‘Colossal Rate’ But Less than Those in Europe, FEOR Head Says
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32. Russians Suffering Trauma of Having Lost a Sense of a Collective Future, Levinson Says
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33. Kazakhstan has No Official Claims Against Russian Territories but Some Kazakhs Consider Parts of That Country Theirs
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34. Russians Mistakenly Think Vaccines will Restore Life to What It was Before Pandemic, Igor Yakovenko Says
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35. Coronavirus May Make People Infertile, Driving Down Russian Birthrate Still Further, Experts Say
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36. Putin Says Russia has Done More than Any Other Country in Responding to Pandemic
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37. Borders and Enclaves Set Up in Soviet Times Behind Many Conflicts Today, Baliyev Says
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38. Putin Preservationists aren’t Conservatives but Reactionaries Setting Stage for Revolution, Kildyushov Says
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39. Siloviki Want to Counter Spread of ‘Google Jamaats’ in Russia by Engaging in Provocations, Zhuravlyov and Silantyev Say
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40. The USSR Died Because Soviet Citizens Ceased to Believe Its Message, Mirovich Says
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41. Moscow Treating North Caucasus Republics like Colonies, Khatazhukov Says
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42. Environmental Disasters Increasingly Frequent and Increasingly Dangerous for Moscow
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