Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Feb. 13-18, 2021
1. Sputnik-5 Gave Putin a Boost but Russians Want to See More, Commentator Says
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2. Yavlinsky Attack on Navalny Hurts Democratic Opposition and Helps Putin’s Fascist Regime, Skobov Says
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3. Russians Want Benefits of Europe without Having to Obey European Rules of the Game, Pastukhov Says
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4. Any Increase in Western Sanctions on Russia will Only Make It Easier for Kremlin to Repress Its People, Inozemtsev Says
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5. Magas Court Fines Ingush Mufti Merely for Calling on Putin to Free Ingush Seven
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6. Kazakh Nationalism Needed but Still Remains Truncated by Soviet Experience, Tatilya Says
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7. Navalny Protests May Be Strengthening Putin’s Standing among Those Starting to Turn Away from Him, Gallyamov Says
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8. Russia Better Able to Mobilize than Other Countries in Response to Pandemic, Putin Says; but Experts Cast Doubt on That
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9. ‘Kremlin Losing Battle for Hearts and Minds of Russians,’ Zhelenin Says
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10. State Anti-Semitism Reemerging in Putin’s Russia, Eidman Says
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11. West Mistakenly Takes at Face Value Moscow’s Names for Institutions in Russia, Martynov Says
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12. Azerbaijan Faces New and Difficult Challenges Precisely Because of Its Victory
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13. A Bellwether for the Future? First Officially Permitted Protest Occurs in Kazan
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14. 65 Years Ago Today, Khrushchev Denounced Stalin, Opening the Way to the Demise of Soviet System
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15. Russians with Health Problems Must Wear Masks Even after Pandemic Ends, Expert Says
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16. Rising Number of Protests in Siberia Reflects Diversity of Power Centers among Elites in Many Cities There, Sociologist Says
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17. Technical Contacts between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Qarabagh Open Way to Broader Poliltical Ones, Moscow Commentator Says
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18. Unlike Many, Russian Protesters Still Carry Flag of Repressive Government They Oppose, Shtepa Says
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19. Ten Things Ashgabat has Banned in Neo-Totalitarian Turkmenistan
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20. Belarus Today More Urban and Less Rural than Any of Its Neighbors
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21. Navalny has Won First Round with Putin Who’ll Find It Hard to Recover, Nikolay Petrov Says
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22. During Pandemic, Russian Courts Hold Fewer Trials But Find Far More People Not Guilty
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23. Working-Age Russian Men Now Dying at Same Rate as That Cohort in War-Torn Syria, Rybalchenko Says
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24. Some in Moscow Now Talking as Stalin Did about Defeating Enemies rather than Punishing Criminals, Inozemtsev Says
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25. Artemenko’s Suit Against Navalny Recalls Both Falwell’s Against Flint and Lenin’s Warning about Stalin, Pastukhov Says
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26. Failure of Prosecution Witnesses to Back Accusations against Ingush Seven Creating ‘Illusion’ about a Positive Outcome, Buzurtanov Says
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27. Many Ethnic Russians Returning to North but Moscow isn’t Counting Them, Anthropologist Says
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28. Many Countries are Now Getting Poorer but Russia is Doing So in Its Own Unfortunate Way, Shelin Says
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29. Russian Arms Sales, Tourism Both Fell During Pandemic Year
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30. Russian Courts Ignore Russian Law to Impose Increasingly Harsh Sentences on Jehovah’s Witnesses, Rights Leaders Say
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31. Unrecognized Armenian Regime in Qarabagh Seeks to Make Russian the Second Official Language There
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32. Most Russians Can’t or Won’t Rate Lenin but Overwhelmingly Oppose Taking Down Monuments to Him
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33. Russian Elites’ Admiration for Fascist Leaders Reflects a Common Contempt for Democracy, Makarkin Says
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34. Pandemic Presents More Serious Challenges for Putin than Kremlin Now Thinks, Nikolayev Says
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35. Kremlin Now Faces Flash Mobs Not Revolutionaries, Kamyshev Says
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36. Three Factors Explain Why Russians aren’t Protesting Excess Deaths from Pandemic
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37. ‘If Russia were a Christian Country, Khrushchev, Not Stalin, would Rank as a Saint,’ Tsipko Says
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38. Putin Rejects Slogan Many Non-Russians Believe Shapes His Own Policies
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39. Russians Want Moscow to Spend Less on Military and More on Domestic Needs, Higher School of Economics Poll Shows
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40. Kremlin Deploys Dzerzhinsky and Andropov Against Navalny and the Young, Eggert Says
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41. FSB May Be Preparing Something Like a Reprise of 1999 Apartment Bombings, ‘Sieve of Socrates’ Telegram Channel Says
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42. Fate of Russians Still Depends on Whims of the Autocrat, ‘Yezhednevny Zhurnal’ Says
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