Paul Goble’a 42 Windows on Eurasia for May 20-25, 2021

Paul Goble’a 42 Windows on Eurasia for May 20-25, 2021

1.      Had Russia Not had Extended May Holidays, Pandemic Situation Would be Even Worse, Popova Says

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2.      ‘Putin Fears the People Even More than the People Fear Him,’ Shelin Says

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3.      In Proposed Law, Zelensky Says Crimean Tatars ‘Indigenous People of Ukraine’ but Russians Aren’t

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4.      Absence of Political Competition Increases Gap Between Rich and Poor in Russia, Sherin Says

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5.      Putin’s Remarks Suggest He is Still Living in 2014, Kurilla Says

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6.      Penal Official’s Proposal to Use Prisoners in Place of Immigrants Sparks Resistance

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7.      Moscow Working to Block Other Countries from Following Georgia and Declaring Expulsion of Circassians a Genocide, Activists Say

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8.      Smaller Share of Muscovites Now Vaccinated than in Any Other European City, Sobyanin Says

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9.      A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week

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10.  Circassian Genocide Anniversary Must Be Not Only a Day of Remembrance but Also a Day of National Rebirth, Activists Say

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11.  Siberians Now More Worried about Moscow than about China, Vintsevskaya Says

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12.  Tatar Mothers Must Ensure Their Children are Counted in the Russian Census as Tatars, Khamidullina Says

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13.  Send Us to Prison But Don’t Keep Violating Our Rights in Detention Center, Sautiyeva Says

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14.  Moscow Set to Add Baltic Countries, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia to List of ‘Unfriendly Countries’

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15.  Vaccinations Slow in Russia Not Just Because of People’s Distrust in Government, Baranov Says

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16.  Russia Now has Not Only Columbines but also Post-Columbine-Like Responses

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17.  Armenian-Azerbaijani Border Talks Complicated by Issue of Russian Mediation and Status of Qarabagh

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18.  American Exercise in Alaska Sparks Fears in Moscow of US Threat to Russian Northeast

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19.  Shoygu’s Military Investment in Tyva Only Source of Stability There, Residents Say

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20.  1921-23 Russian Famine When ‘Eating People wasn’t Considered a Crime’

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21.  Russian Companies Hiding Information about Ever More Frequent Spills, Environmentalists Say

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22.  Russian Government Registers Its Five Millionth Coronavirus Infection

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23.  Kremlin Likely to Move on Regional Amalgamation in 2022, Affecting Russian but not Non-Russian Areas, Inozemtsev Says

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24.  Officials Seek to Save State Money by Denying Invalid Status to Russians with Medical Problems, Doctor-Journalist Reports

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25.  Moscow’s Immediate Goal for Arctic Council: Get West to Pay for Cleanup of Soviet Nuclear Dumping

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26.  Suppression of Zemtsvo Congress Shows How Much Kremlin Fears Any Organized Opposition, Gallyamov and Garmonenko Say

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27.  Dedovshchina hasn’t Disappeared, Only Changed Its Forms, Soldiers’ Mothers Expert Says

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28.  P&0 Maritime Logistics Opens Shipping from Istanbul to Central Asia via Russian Waterways

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29.  More than Ten Percent of Russians Not Yet Experiencing Any Post-Pandemic Economic Revival

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30.  West Must Learn that Containing Dictators Not Enough to Protect Its Interests, Skobov Says

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31.  Russians have been Hoping for a Better Future for 500 Years, New Kremlin Exhibit Shows

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32.  Saratov Residents Propose a Real Amalgamation Project: ‘Unite Moscow with Rest of Russia!’

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33.  Putin Believes Russian Empire Must Develop by Being Ever More Brutal, Kolesnikov Says

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34.  Is Baku Buying Off Russian Media to Promote Pro-Azerbaijani Positions? windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/05/is-baku-buying-off-russian-media-to.html

35.  Moscow Moves from Justifying GULAG to Glorifying It

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36.  Russia Ranks 60th in World in Terms of Number of Vaccinated Residents

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37.  Video of March 2019 Protest, New Testimony of Russian Guardsmen Undercut Case against Ingush Seven

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38.  Tehran Doesn’t Want Any Border Changes in Caucasus

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39.  Chekist Repression a Delayed Action Mine Threatening Survival of Putin Regime, Eidman Says

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40.  Belarus Crisis May Not Work Out as Putin Hopes, Shelin Says

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41.  Minsk Events Call Attention to Longstanding Soviet and Russian Tradition, Melikhov Says

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42.  Sufism Offers Spirituality Traditional Muslim Trends Don’t and Keeps Young from Turning to Extremism, Safagaleyev Says

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