Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Aug. 6 – 11, 2021
1. Moscow Giving Orders on Pandemic that Violate Russian Laws, Study Finds
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2. A Baker’s Double Dozen of Other Notable Stories from Russia This Week
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3. Twenty-Five Years Ago This Week, Chechens Drove Russians Out of Grozny
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4. Putin Regime Revives Early Soviet Practice of Seizing Art in Private Hands
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5. Ingush Seven Defense Witnesses Detail Provocations by Siloviki at March 2019 Protest
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6. Putin Breathing New Life into State Council, Experts Say
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7. Does Russia Need to Move Its Capital to Siberia or Just Decentralize?
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8. Russia Now Facing Pandemic Disaster Across the Board
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9. Moscow’s Promise to Develop Russia’s East has Not Been Fulfilled, Leading Vladivostok Economist Says
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10. Phantom Nature of United Russia and Its Lies, More than Its Corruption, Alienating Russians, Gallyamov Says
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11. Putin Earlier Won Support for Anti-Western Approach but Now is Losing It for Same Reason, Levinson Says
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12. Putin Calls Working Class ‘Leading Political Force’ in Russia
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13. Putin Better Reflects Underlying Russian Values than Does the Opposition and His System Will Thus Outlast Him and It, Pastukhov Says
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14. Baltic-Russian Borders Today: A Reversal of Fortune from the First Cold War
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15. Few Russians Opposed to Shots are Changing Their Minds, Levada Center Finds
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16. Repression against Media Never Stops a Revolution whose Time has Come But Does Affect Outcomes, Gallyamov Says
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17. Russia’s Influence Based on Military Power, Putin’s Authority, Cultural Heritage, and Scientific Achievements, VTsIOM Finds
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18. Moscow’s Approach to National Projects Inherently and Deeply Flawed, Malenky Says
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19. After 1991, Moscow Changed Nationality Policy Much Less than Almost Anything Else, Yershoff Says
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20. Lack of Qualified Workers Limiting Russian Economic Recovery, HSE Survey Says
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21. Simply Moving Russia’s Capital to Siberia Won’t End Hyper-Centralism of Russian State But May Make It Worse, Tushin Says
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22. ‘Russia has Lost the Battle with the Coronavirus,’ Sociologist Says
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23. Syncretism on the Rise among Orthodox Christian and Animist-Shamanist Faiths, Undermining Both Religious and Ethnic Divisions in Russia
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24. Future Conflicts Likely to Be Between Countries Capable of Responding to New Challenges and Those that Aren’t, Shevtsova Says
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25. ‘Leave No One Behind’ – Theme of This Year’s Day of Indigenous Peoples
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26. Chernobyl Accident in 1986 Raised Ukraine’s Diplomatic Profile at the UN, Ogryzko Says
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27. Russia’s Middle Class Disappearing Because Kremlin Finds It Easier to Control Those with Lower Incomes who Depend on It, Experts Say
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28. To Combat Radicalization of Russia’s Young, Kremlin Must Re-Establish Administration of State Youth Policy, Military Sociologist Says
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29. Facebook Shuts Down Russia-Based Covid ‘Disinformation Laundromat’
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30. Lukashenko Says No to Putin Six Times and Delivers Two Warnings to Moscow, Shelin Says
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31. Catastrophic Fires in Siberia and Moscow’s Mishandling of Them Seen Provoking Widespread Anger and Even Mass Protests
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32. Russian Society Now Outwardly More Anti-Western but Inwardly More Westernized than in 1991, Makarkin Says
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33. Shoygu Warns Russia Threatened Within by Ethnic, Religious and Class Discord
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34. Yerevan Reminds Moscow that Armenia will Assume Chairmanship of Organization for the Collective Security Treaty Next Month
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35. Fights among Migrants Being Provoked to Distract Attention from Other Problems ahead of Elections, Immigrant Rights Leader Suggests
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36. For Fourth Day in a Row, Russia Sets Record for Covid Deaths But Officials Say Situation is ‘Stabilizing’
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37. Handicapping Possible Successors to Patriarch Kirill
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38. Moscow Patriarchate Presses for Presidential Office to Protect Ethnic Russians from ‘Oppression at Home and Abroad’
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39. Kitsch Plays an Important Role Both for Rural Russians and for Incompletely Urbanized Ones, HSE Scholars Say
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40. Tajikistan Once had a Status Inside Uzbekistan like Karakalpakstan Does Now
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41. Lenin had a Philosophers’ Ship; Putin has Multiple Philosophers’ Jets
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42. Defense Lawyers Want Former Republic Head Yevkurov to Testify at Ingush Seven Trial
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