Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Feb. 13-18, 2021

Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Feb. 13-18, 2021  

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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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