Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Feb. 25-Mar. 2, 2021
1. Moscow Borrowed Far More in 2020 than It Spent Fighting Pandemic
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2. Kadyrov Again Highlights His Territorial Ambitions by Focusing on Daghestan’s Chechens, Experts Say
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3. Putin Cult Unlikely Ever to Be Exposed as Stalin’s Was in 1956, Sinelnikov-Orishak Says
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4. Putin’s Speech to Chekists Highlights His Increased Focus on Domestic Opponents and Foreign Enemies
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5. If Lapis Lazuli Corridor Opens, Georgia Could Be a Big Loser from Latest Karabakh War
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6. Russia’s Party of Power and Its Partners Promoting National Socialism to Distract People from Their Problems, Zhelenin Says
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7. Moscow TV Removes Most Powerful Lines of Eisenstein’s ‘Aleksandr Nevsky’ Lest Russians Get Ideas
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8. Kremlin Denies Vaccine Shortage Regional Officials and Medical Experts are Reporting
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9. A Baker’s Dozen of Other Stories from Russia This Week
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10. Central Asians Moving into Cities but Not Becoming Urbanized, Mamyrayymov Says
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11. Russians’ Passivity Welcomed by Regime Puts Country on Way to Failure, Scholars in Regions Say
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12. Political Correctness Not Principles Dominates West and Weakens Its Influence in Russia and Other Authoritarian Countries, Shelin Says
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13. Unless Regions Become Republics, Russians will Remain Both a Colonizing and a Colonized Nation, Sidorov Says
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14. Siloviki Arrest Ingush Leader They’d Sought for Almost Two Years
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15. All Aspects of Russian Pandemic Response Distorted by Falsification, 3400-Member Watching COVID-2019 Group Reports
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16. Political Crisis in Armenia May Lead 200,000 More People to Leave, Reducing It to Something like Abkhazia, Vardanyan Says
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17. Unlike Stalin, Putin isn’t Bloodthirsty and Uses Violence Only When He Feels Threatened, Gallyamov Says
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18. Federative Party Absurdly Being Accused of Being a Khodorkovsky Project, Miftakhov Says
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19. Lubyanka Statue Debate Highlighted Ideological Vulnerability of Putin Regime, Popkov Says
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20. Russia Less a Mafia State than One Too Closely Integrated with Business, Inozemtsev Says
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21. Actions on Sixth Anniversary of Nemtsov’s Murder Take Place Across Russia
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22. Despite Improved Statistics, Only One Russian in 16 Immune to Coronavirus, Epidemiologists Say
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23. 2020 was a Hard Year for Russia’s Regions; 2021 will Be Even Worse, Experts Say
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24. Study of Non-Russian Languages has Collapsed Since Putin Made Them Voluntary Subjects
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25. Fall in Share of Raw Materials among Russian Exports ‘a Bookkeeping Illusion,’ Stolypin Institute Says
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26. Unresolved Conflict of Individualism and Collectivism in Russia Makes Radical Reforms There Difficult if Not Impossible, Auzan Says
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27. Northern Sea Route to Connect Not only Europe and Asia but Northern Russia to Moscow, Stanulevich Says
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28. Kremlin’s Attempts to Hide Stalin’s Crimes Only Attract More Attention to Them, Eidelman Says
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29. Nearly Two-Thirds of Russians Say Coronavirus Form of Biological War and Many of These Won’t Get Vaccinated
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30. Russian Conservatives Must Back Navalny Tactically Because He is Weakening State, Savvin Says
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31. Russian ‘Patriots’ Hate Gorbachev because He’s Both a Russian and a European, Tsipko Says
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32. Russian Judges Arresting Six Times More of Detainees than They did Two Years Ago, Project Media Says
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33. Centenary of 1921 Peasant Rising, One Even More Fateful than Kronshtadt Revolt, Recalled
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34. Russians Flee Tuva as Law Decays, Economy Collapses and Separatism Intensifies, Znak Journalist Says
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35. Moscow Wants to Strip Republic Languages of ‘State’ Status’ and Make Them Only ‘Official’
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36. Moscow Says Russia will Have Collective Immunity to Coronavirus No Later than August
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37. USSR Would Have Collapsed Even if Gorbachev had Never Existed, Gozman Says
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38. By Imprisoning Navalny, Kremlin has Made What He Represents Politically Immortal, Pastukhov Says
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39. West Changing Itself to Allow It to Impose More Sanctions on Russia without Harming Itself, Shevtsova Says
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40. The More Radical Navalny Becomes, the Less Support He will Have, Shaburov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-more-radical-navalny-becomes-less.html
41. No Russian Believes Declaring Support for Putin is Dangerous, Levinson Says
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42. Even Witnesses from Russian Guard Aren’t Supporting Charges Against Ingush Seven
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