Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for May 14-19, 2021
1. Pandemic Spikes in Moscow after Putin’s Extension of Days Off for May Holidays
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2. A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week
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3. Putin Now Says Ukraine is Becoming ‘the Anti-Russia’
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4. Russians Evenly Split on Whether Attacking Ukraine would Help or Hurt Putin, Lev Gudkov Says
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5. Without Outside Help, Armenia Won’t Be Able to Hold Syunik (Zengezur) for Long, Karakhanyan Says
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6. Russian Courts Restore Noxious Soviet ‘Legal’ Principle of Analogy, Mishina Says
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7. Horrific May 2020 Oil Spill Result of Melting of Permafrost, Potanin Now Suggests
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8. Pandemic Spikes in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Eases Elsewhere
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9. Soviet-Era Maps in Conflict with One Another Concerning Armenian-Azerbaijani Border, Experts Say
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10. Nevsky’s Lesson is that the West is a Greater Threat to Russia than the East, Volodin Says
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11. August 1991 Coup Plotters Get Their Own ‘Lives of Remarkable People’ Book
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12. Kazakh and Russian Nationalists Increasingly Resemble One Another, Asylbekov Says
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13. Peaceful Coexistence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis ‘Not Possible,’ Each Side Says
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14. Chechnya’s Housing Stock Largely Rebuilt but Not Its Factories
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15. Moscow May Be Forced to Make Vaccinations Compulsory for Many, Severinov Says
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16. Putin Increasingly Issues Decrees without Publishing Them to Avoid Angering Russians, Investigations Find
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17. Russian Federation under Putin Repeating Cadres Policy that Destroyed the USSR, Kulbaka Says
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18. Putin the Louis Napoleon of Today, Some Russian Scholars Suggest
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19. 1986 Film Showed What Life in USSR would Have Been Like if Country Hadn’t Been Soviet, Mironov Says
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20. Russian Electoral System Delivers Majorities for Party of Power but Threatens to Destroy Country, Alksnis Says
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21. Moscow Wants to Make Universities Training Centers for Updated Military Reserve
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22. Moscow, St. Petersburg Again Coronavirus Hotspots
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23. Russia’s Democrats have Helped Putin and Siloviki Restore Culture of Death as Country’s Ideology, Tsipko Says
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24. Duma This Week Prepares to Agree to ‘Total Destruction of Legal Order’ in Russia, Inozemtsev Says
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25. Moscow isn’t Doing Enough to Combat ‘Plague of De-Russification’ Abroad or at Home, Magomedov and Boykov Say
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26. New Russian Carriers, if Ever Built, Should Be Called ‘Pension,’ ‘Zeroing Out,’ and ‘Putin’ Because of How They’ll Be Paid For, Critics Say
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27. Aral Sea’s Demise having Negative Impact on Population of an Ever-Larger Region, Kryazheva Says
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28. Economic Crisis Leads Moscow to Think about Regional Amalgamation But Makes Its Implementation Unlikely, Sultanov Says
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29. Nearly 90 Percent of Russian Military Personnel have Received at Least One Shot of Vaccine
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30. Putin Repeating Stalin’s Deportation of Crimean Tatars In Slow Motion
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31. Ingush Teip Leader and Rights Activists from Moscow Come to Essentuki to Support Ingush Seven
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32. Volodin Says Russian Identity Rests on Faith, Language, Culture and History
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33. Putin’s Aggressiveness Uniting West against Russia and Powering Its Search for Modus Vivendi with China, Shevtsova Says
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34. Putin’s Insistence on Single Narrative in Caucasus Deepening Divide Between Russians and Circassians, Urushadze Says
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35. Border Conflicts Transform Broader Societies: Lessons from the Kyrgyz-Tajik Clashes
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36. Medvedev Says Russia May Be Compelled to Make Vaccinations Mandatory
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37. Borders in Post-Soviet Space were Imposed by Moscow for Its Purposes without Approval of Republics
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38. Putin Said Mulling New Canal between Caspian and Black Sea windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/05/putin-said-mulling-new-canal-between.html
39. Moscow Moves to Take More Land from Ingushetia for a Military Base
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40. Half of Muscovites Favor Restoration of Dzerzhinsky Statue in Lubyanka Square, A Quarter are Opposed, Levada Center Poll Finds
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41. Russia has a Democratic Tradition Even if Moscow Doesn’t, Novgorod Meeting Plans to Emphasize
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42. Image of Sakharov, Once the Conscience of the Nation, an Increasingly Blurred Figure for Russians, Lev Gudkov Says
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