Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 4, 2023
1. Moscow will Talk Peace with Kyiv as Soon as Ukrainian Army withdraws from Ukrainian Territory, Russians Say
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2. Russia Losing Ground in Central Asia to China and the West Not Because Moscow Can’t Conceal Its Anger, Dubnov Says
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3. Moscow Sees Greenland’s Moves toward Independence as Part of US-UK Plot Against Russia
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4. Karelian Studies His National Language Because His Ancestors were Shot for Speaking It, But Few are Following His Example
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5. Putin Says ‘Idiots’ in West Now Seeking to Dismember Russia Only Strengthening Russian Unity
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6. China’s Failure to Complete Construction Projects in Russia over Last Decade Sparks Concerns that Same Thing Will Happen Again
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7. Russia May Last Another Several Generations in a State of Semi-Collapse, Sergey Medvedev Says
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8. Prigozhin’s Wagner Far from the Only Russian PMC Fighting in Ukraine
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9. At Rate It Occupied Bakhmut, Russians Say, Moscow will Occupy Ukraine in about 9500 Years
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10. Putin Fears Making Gorbachev’s Mistakes and So is Making Those of Nicholas II, Nikulin Says
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11. Russian Liberals have Failed to Offer Alternative to Kremlin’s Imperialist Narrative, Sidorov Says
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12. Russian Liberals and Non-Russian Nationalists Live in Separate Worlds but Share Skepticism about Early Elections, Shtepa Says
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13. Acquittals in Russian Courts Fall to Only One in Every 670 Cases — or 0.15 Percent
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14. Putin’s Orwellian NewSpeak has Four Basic Forms, Philologist Says
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15. Aging Putin Regime Fails to See It is Creating ‘a Russia without Russians,’ Grachev Says
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16. 10 Percent of Russian Population that is Actively Religious Divided Equally among Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Protestants, Mitrokhin Says
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17. Putin Promoting Rudeness as Part of General Attack on Russian Culture, Pastukhov Says
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18. Kremlin-Promoted Image of China Helps Fill Ideological Vacuum in Russia, Denisenko Says
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19. What if Mongols Start Using Golden Horde Maps and Say There is No Russia, Russians Want to Know
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20. Even Now, Few Turkmens Becoming Migrant Workers in Russia
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21. Far More Circassians Abroad Want to Return to their North Caucasus Homeland than have Applied to Do So, Expert Says
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22. Magical Realism Spreading in Russia for Same Reasons as in Latin America, Nekrasova Says
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23. Putin has Finally Proclaimed a New National Ideology – ‘Russia Against Everyone! Else’ Some Say
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24. Strength of Russian Regime Overrated while Passivity of Russian People Underestimated, Ginzburg Says
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25. Next Russian Revolution May Begin Not in Capitals but on the Russian Periphery, Gallyamov Says
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26. 5,000 Bashkirs Protest Russian Mining, Putting Putin’s Plans to Make Russia Self-Sufficient in Manganese
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27. Residents of Kemerovo’s Nasha Rodina Call Their Village’s Link to Outside World a Schroedinger Bridge
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28. Russian Pressure on Circassians in North Caucasus Backfiring by Increasing Circassian Activism Abroad, Kase Kik Says
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29. Kirov Oblast Villagers Support War Memorial Even When The War hasn’t Affected Them Directly and They Don’t have Basic Services
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30. No One Attacked Russia before Putin Invaded Ukraine – But Some Officials Appear to Be Edging toward Recognition of That, Russians Say
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31. Russian Leaders Still Think Money Alone Can Solve All Problems, Nigmatulin Says
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32. Achieving Putin’s Goal of National Sovereignty for Auto Industry Equivalent to Stalin’s Plan for Socialism in One Country, Patsvania Says
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33. Qualitative Deterioration of Russian Workforce Reducing GDP by More than Half a Percent Each Year, Abdeyeva Says
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34. Russians who have Left and Those who Remain Understand Each Other Ever Less Well, Narintskaya Says
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35. ‘It is Impossible to Explain the Cruelty of Russians’ in Ukraine, Alexiyevich Says
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36. Putin isn’t So Much Lying as Engaging in ‘Chekist Mockery,’ Epstein Says
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37. Bashkir Branch of KPRF Says It Will Expel Those Who Take Active Part in Environmental Protests
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38. Some Russians Say Lavrov has Gone to Burundi to Get War Elephants to Fight in Ukraine
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39. Prospects for Russia to Democratize or Disintegrate Soon Very Small, Morozov Says
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40. Shafarevich, Anti-Semitic Soviet Mathematician who Popularized Term Russophobia,’ Recalled on Centenary of His Birth
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41. Plan to Allow Chinese in Russia to Live Extraterritorially Under Chinese Laws Outrages Russians
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42. Putin’s Re-Stalinization and Neo-Medievalization Combining to Make Wars Ever More Likely, Khapayeva Argues
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43. Putin Personality Cult Stabilizes Russia But Only as Long as He Lives, Pastukhov Says
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44. Russian Diaspora in Armenia More Political and Pro-Western than Its Counterpart in Georgia, New Survey Finds
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45. Kremlin Knows Power Corrupts and to Protect Russian People from Spread of This Plague Hires Only Those Already Corrupt
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46. Changes in Diet Behind 30 Percent Rise in Mortality Rates among Khabarovsk’s Numerically Small Peoples, Experts Say
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47. Re-Integrating Russians who’ve Fought in Ukraine a Large, Difficult and Long-Term Challenge, Psychologist Says
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48. Some Russian Regions Experiencing Economic Growth while Others Suffering Declines, Russian Central Bank Says
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49. Some Russians Fear a Putin Victory in Ukraine; Others, a Loss; but None Expects Any Positive Change Soon, Kuleshova Says
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50. Western Sanctions Affecting Not Only Russian Economy but Russian Environment, Experts Say
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