Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia Dec 21, 2022
1. Some in Moscow Fear Émigré Organizations of Nationalists and Regionalists May Recapitulate Success of Bolsheviks, Sidorov Says
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2. Kremlin Media have Failed to Bridge Growing Generational Divide in Russia, Yershov Says
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3. Russia Can’t Win War of Attrition in Ukraine, El Murid Says
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4. Russian Deaths Stable over Last Seven Months but Russian Births Continue to Decline Catastrophically, Chernyshov Says
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5. Under Putin, Russia has Been Closing 1,000 Libraries a Year, Official Figures Show
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6. Are Ukrainian Agents Burning Russian Shopping Centers? Or Are Their Owners Torching Them to Collect on Insurance?
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7. Russian ‘Imperial Syndrome’ Doesn’t Explain Everything Moscow Does, Kurilla Says
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8. Tatarstan has Blocked Kremlin Efforts to Force It to Drop Title of Republic President for More than a Decade – and May be About to Do So Again Now
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9. Moscow’s Efforts to Get Immigrants to Fight in Ukraine Exacerbating Ethnic Tensions in Russia, Abashin Says
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10. Leaving Russia Acceptable ‘New Normal’ for Educated Russians Opposed to the War, Borusyak Says
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11. Minsk’s Use of Latin Script on Street Signs Upsets Some in Moscow
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12. Many Kazakhs Say Putin’s War in Ukraine a ‘Prelude’ to Russian Annexation of Their Country, Sociologists Say
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13. Duma Demands Russian Officials Not Use Foreign Words When Russian Counterparts Exist – But Uses Them in Making That Demand
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14. ‘Inferred Justification’ – Why Many Russians Accept Putin’s Explanations on Ukraine for Same Reason Many Americans Did Bush’s on Iraq
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15. Stalin Opposed Having a Separate Ethnic Russian Republic, Newly Released Document Shows
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16. Verkhovna Rada Deputies Form Free Ichkeria Inter-Fractional Group
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17. Tatarstan Proposal for Russian Law Punishing Those who Fail to Respect Regional and Republic Symbols Quickly Gains Support of Other Federal Subjects
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18. Revanchism is Putin’s Ideology and His Poisonous Legacy the World Must Combat, Portnikov Says
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19. Russia Suffering Widespread Labor Shortages and Upward Pressure on Wages, Rychkova Says
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20. Russia has Only 75 Percent of Tankers It Needs, Giving West Another Way to Put Pressure on Moscow, Katasonov Says
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21. Duma Says Crimes aren’t Crimes in Donbass if They’re Committed ‘in the Interests of Russia’
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22. Russian Officials Say They Hope to Learn from Iran on How to Control Protests, Leading Some to Worry Moscow wants to Execute Protesters
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23. Kazakh Officials No More Successful than Russian Ones in Defining ‘Traditional Islam’ Despite that Being the Only Kind They Like, Experts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/12/kazakh-officials-no-more-successful.html
24. Putin Wrong to Think Russia Can Buy Its Way Out of Its Demographic Difficulties, Moscow Experts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/12/putin-wrong-to-think-russia-can-buy-its.html
25. Putin Regime Colludes with Developers, Opening the Way for Destruction of Orthodox Churches in Moscow windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/12/putin-regime-colludes-with-developers.html
26. Moscow Delays Implementation of Its Failed Trash Reform Three More Years, Making Massive Protests More Likely windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/12/moscow-delays-implementation-of-its.html
27. Moscow’s Sale of Timber to China Leaving Many Siberians Freezing This Winter
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28. Russian Defeats Forcing Moscow to Shift from Propaganda to Crisis Communications to Insulate Putin from Criticism, Asmolov Says
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29. Armenian Activists Call on UN to Send International Peacekeepers to Region in Place of Russian Units
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30. Action by League of Nations 83 Years Ago This Week a Clear Precedent for Expelling Russia from UN
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31. ‘Russian People’ have Been in Only One Russian Constitution and Not the Latest, Vereshchagin Says
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32. Plans to Revive System of State Orders for Art Recall Ideological Control of Stalin’s Times, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Warns
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33. Moscow will Need Many Months to Train Replacements for IT Professionals who have Fled Russia, Figures Show
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34. Elections Make Even Loyal Mayors More Independent-Minded and So Russian Governors will Always Seek to Do Away with Their Election, Vitaly Ivanov Says
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35. Putin Putting in Place ‘Mechanism for Permanent War,’ El Murid Says
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36. As Newly Mobilized Arrive in Ukraine, More Russians Want to Find Out How to Surrender
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37. MGIMO Expert Proposes Russia Attack Azerbaijan with Rockets to Disrupt World Oil Market and Punish Baku
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38. Kazan Playing Chicken with Moscow over President Title Right to the End — and Maybe Beyond
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39. Personalist Dictatorships Like Putin’s Less Likely to Be Succeeded by Democracies than are Other Kinds, Gallyamov Says
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40. Moscow and Its Agents in KBR Shift from Ignoring Activists to Repressing and Silencing Them, Khakuasheva Says
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41. Beijing Takes from Collapse of USSR the Lesson that It Must Never Allow a Weakening of Party Control, Zuyenko Says
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42. Three Baltic Countries Share Many Demographic Trends but Diverge on Others
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43. Stalin Ended Winter War in 1940 Before Britain and France Could Attack USSR, Russians Told Declassified Intelligence Shows
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44. Putin Propaganda Far More Effective Abroad than Its Soviet Predecessor Ever Was, Russians Say
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45. Russia’s Libraries Told to Remove ‘Objectionable’ Books from Shelves and Send Them to Be Burned, Lebedenko Says
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46. International Community will Have to Intervene Massively to Allow Russians to Control Their Own Government, Shtepa Says
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47. Russian Elite Increasing Divided on What to Do If Russia Faces Defeat in Ukraine, Stanovaya Says
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48. After Defeats in Ukraine, Even Russian Imperialists are Scaling Back Their Fantasies
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49. The End of an Era of Hope: Moscow to Liquidate Moscow Helsinki Group
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50. Dugin’s Plan to De-Modernize Russia would Lead to Country’s Death, El Murid Says
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