Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / February 19, 2023
1. Putin’s is ‘the Imperialism of Idiots,’ Dilmukhametov Says
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2. Dastans, Epic Stories about Resistance to Outsiders, Now Being Promoted in Tatarstan
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3. Moscow Allows Russian Gas Company to Set Up a PMC in the Arctic
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4. Aging Housing Stock, Not Ukrainian Agents, Behind Growing Wave of Gas Explosions in Russian Apartment Blocks, Experts Say
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5. Moscow’s Influence in South Caucasus Declining toward ‘Point of No Return,’ Armenian Scholars Say
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6. Moscow Counts Georgia and Moldova as ‘Relatively Friendly’ Countries to Maintain Its View that ‘Post-Soviet Space’ Remains Vital
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7. Promethean Agenda Can Prevent Reemergence of Muscovite Imperialism, Mamulia Says
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8. Tatars Declined by Only Half as Many as Russian Census Reports, New Analysis Shows
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9. Kazakhstan’s Other Nationality Problem: Non-Russian Non-Kazakh Nations Almost as Numerous as Ethnic Russians There
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10. Despite Pandemic’s End, Russia had More Deaths than Births for Fifth Straight Year in 2022
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11. Putin Reversing Hard-Won Gains by Non-Russians in Republic Governments
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12. Unlike in the Caucasus, Intellectuals in Kazakhstan Failed to Promote Kazakh Language in Last Decades of Soviet Power, Zhanabergen Says
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13. ‘Putin is Too Soft,’ Aleksandrov Says, because with a Tougher Leader, Moscow would Already Control the Entire Former Soviet Space
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14. Fewer Russians Say They Want to Emigrate Now than Did a Year Ago, Surveys Find
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15. To Avoid Dictatorship or Disintegration, Russia Must Become a Parliamentary Republic without a President, Khodorkovsky Says
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16. Kremlin Unwittingly Provides Guide to Remaining Independent Media, Print and Online, in Moscow, the Regions and Republics
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17. Key Division among Prisoners in Russia Today Not between Political and Ordinary but between Those who Get Public Attention and Those who Don’t, Solidarity Zone Activists Say
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18. Russia’s Censorship Agency Maintains List of Words No One Must Call Putin or Link to Him
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19. Despite Criticism, Public Opinion Polls Remain a Reliable Source on Public Attitudes, Volkov Says
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20. New Title for Kadyrov Very Different Thing than New Title for Tatarstan Head, Makarkin Says
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21. Snitching Coming Back So Strongly Because It Allows Russians to Engage in Conflict without Doing So in the Open, Roshchin Says
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22. Russian Policies Radicalizing Circassian Young People, Taynalova Says
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23. Putin’s Russia Now More Repressive than Brezhnev’s Soviet Union Was, Arrests and Convictions Show
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24. Moscow’s Obsession with Russian Emigration Only Intensifying
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25. Moscow Sees No Chance for Introduction of EU or UN Peacekeepers in Qarabagh
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26. Belarus has Just Made Moscow’s Task of Attracting Emigres Back Far More Difficult
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27. Kumyk Activist Wants Non-Russians to Launch a ‘Black Lives Matter’-Style Movement against Liberals and Putin Regime
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28. Ethnic Russians Lead Downward Trend in Births, Rosstat Figures Show
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29. Russian boys Now Dream of Becoming Wagner Mercenaries and Girls of Becoming Military Widows, Not Bandits and Prostitutes as was the Case in the 1990s
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30. ‘In Seeking to Correct “Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the 20th Century,” Putin Triggering ‘Greatest Ethno-Social Crisis of the 21st,’ Inozemtsev Says
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31. Recognition Growing that Russia’s Survival Entails Greater Risk than Its Demise, Eidman Says
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32. Having Stripped Borderlands of Troops for His War in Ukraine, Putin May have Lowered Threshold for Going Nuclear, Norwegian Intelligence Service Says
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33. Denunciations Gives Russian Marginals a Chance to Feel They’re Listened to and Another Reason to Support Putin, Kolesnikov Says
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34. Russia’s Buddhists as Deeply Divided on War in Ukraine as Those of Other Faiths, ‘Lyudi Baikala’ Says
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35. Charging Putin with War Crimes Now Could Eventually Affect Russians, Gudkov Says
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36. Many Russian Residents Told Census They Don’t Identify by Nationality ‘On Principle,’ Rosstat Deputy Head Says
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37. Ethnic Russian Regions have More ‘Disloyal’ Media Outlets than Non-Russian Republics Do, Moscow Censorship Agency Says
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38. Kremlin Ranks Managing Inter-Ethnic Relations as Its Third Most Important Task, Semigin Says
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39. Munich Security Conference Invites Russian Liberals but Not Regionalists or Non-Russian Nationalists
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40. Daghestan Deeply Divided on War in Ukraine
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41. Given War in Ukraine, Putin Now Moves about Russia by Armored Train rather than Plane
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42. Russians Getting ‘Used to War’ and that is Dangerous for All Involved, Eidelman Says
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43. Putin Regime Arose Because Russian Democrats in 1990s Betrayed the People, Zharkov Says
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44. Émigré-Founded Ingushetia Independence Committee has Support at Home and Authorities are Unwittingly Spreading Its Influence
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45. Putin Promoting ‘Festivalization of Nationality Policy,’ Berezhkov Says
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46. Putin Followed Stalin’s Path but has Now Turned into a Pale ‘Copy of Hitler,’ Nevzlin Says
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47. What’s the Russian for ‘Human Rights?’ Muscovites Ask
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48. Only Some Unexpected Catastrophe Could Allow Regions and Republics to Gain Independence from Moscow, Golosov Says
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49. Declining Numbers of Ukrainians in Occupied Crimea Reflects Re-Identification rather than Outmigration, Russian Official Says
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50. Dying Out of Finno-Ugric Languages in Russian Federation Not a Natural Process but a State-Promoted One, Pasanen Says
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