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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