Paul Goble’s Windows on Eurasia for Dec. 14-19, 2021

Paul Goble’s Windows on Eurasia for Dec. 14-19, 2021   

1.     Moscow Says Pandemic has Weakened Russian-Centric Civic Identity

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2.     Split in Russian Elite on Covid Vaccinations Boosts Protest Attitudes among ‘Deep People,’ Yakovenko Says

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3.     Putin Seeking Not Just to Pressure Ukraine but to Revise Results of Cold War, Shevtsova Says

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4.     A Triune Slavic State Doesn’t Exist but Moscow Already Thinking about Its Flags and Coats of Arms

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5.     Russia’s ‘Party of Power’ Isn’t, Pertsev Says

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6.     Opposition to QR Codes in Russia Far Broader and More Political than Objections to Vaccines, Kagarlitsky Says

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7.     Real Devil in the Public Power Law is in the Details, Shaburov Says

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8.     Ingush Seven Sentences Directed against All of Civil Society in Russia, Lawyer Says

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9.     Moscow’s Continuing Lies about Katyn ‘Analogous to Holocaust Denials,’ Romanov Says

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10.  Arctic Challenges Could Lead to Expanded International Cooperation, Moscow Expert Says

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11.  Baku and Yerevan Still Far Apart on Reopening Transportation Links, Marinina Says

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12.  Bashkirs and Bashkorts Two Very Different Things, Gabbasov Says

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13.  More than Half of North Caucasians Now Rely on Social Networks for News and Information, New Poll Finds

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14.  Kremlin Behind Moscow Patriarchate’s Crackdown on Dissident Churchmen and Movements, Makarkin Says

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15.  Fusion of State and Criminal World in Russia Even More Dangerous than Absence of Democracy, Pastukhov Says

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16.  USSR would Have Fallen Apart Much Sooner if Khrushchev hadn’t Shot Beria, Bavyrin Says

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17.  Kazakhstan Sets Up Commission to Study 1916-1918 and 1921-1922 Famines

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18.  Where Muscovites Already are Engaged in Real Battles with People from Other Russian Cities

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19.  Russia’s Gun Producers Lobbying to ‘Soften’ New Law Restricting Gun Ownership

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20.  Only Place Russia Could Expand without Disaster is Northern Kazakhstan, Khodarenok Says

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21.  Siloviki have Own Power Vertical Against Which It is Almost Impossible to Appeal, Travkin Says

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22.  Russian Prosecutors have Now Brought Cases Against Jehovah’s Witnesses in Almost 90 Percent of All Federal Subjects

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23.  Putin Now Relies on Instilling Fear Because He Can’t Deliver Prosperity and His Lies are No Longer Believed, Turchenko Says

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24.  Western Leaders have Made Putin into a Superman to Avoid Facing Up to Their Own Mistakes, Inozemtsev Says

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25.  Opposition to Anti-Covid Measures in Russia Now Recalls Opposition to the War in 1917, El Murid Says

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26.  Moscow Specialists Project Census Problems There onto Russia as a Whole, Levada Center Expert Says

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27.  Soviet Regime in Kazakhstan Kept Number of Dissidents Down by Installing Writers in Senior Posts, Baykhozha Says

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28.  Infant Mortality Again on the Rise in Russia, Pulling Down Overall Life Expectancy, Nikolayev Says

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29.  Ingush Activist in Kazakhstan Calls on Putin to Pardon Ingush Seven and Return Ingush Lands to Republic

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30.  Moscow Moves Up Plan to Finally Scrap Soviet-Era Missiles

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31.  With QR Codes, Moscow has Alienated Regions and Turned Russia into ‘a Powder Keg’ Ready to Explode, El Murid Says

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32.  Two Very Different Vectors of Migration Collide in Moscow

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33.  Neither Armenia Nor Azerbaijan Appears Interested in Investigating War Crimes by Its Own Soldiers

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34.  Two Turkish Video Bloggers who Filmed Turkic Groups East of the Urals Face Expulsion

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35.  As Bad as the Russian Media Situation was in 2021, ‘It’s About to Get Worse’ in 2022, Experts Say

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36.  Putin Doesn’t Want to Restore Yalta World; He Wants to Destroy It, Skobov Says

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37.  Caucasian Emigres Played Central Role in Promethee Movement, Mamuliya Says

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38.  ‘There was No Objective Reason for Complete Disintegration of USSR in 1991,’ Shubin Says

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39.  Pandemic has Driven Down Attendance at Russian Orthodox Services by More than 60 Percent, Patriarch Kirill Concedes

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40.  After 1945, Soviet Forces Made Nazi Death Camps Part of the GULAG, Moscow Portal Says

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41.  Kazakhstan has Been Vastly More Successful than Ukraine in Escaping Soviet Past, Inozemtsev Says

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42.  Kremlin Bill on Local Administration Completes Destruction of Federalism by Restoring Soviet-Style Democratic Centralism, Vishnevsky Says

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