Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 9, 2023

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 9, 2023

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1.     Putin has Truly Transformed Russia — into a Joke, Some Russians Say 

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2.     Russia Won’t Disintegrate Right after Putin Goes But Could Later if His Successors Mishandle the Situation, Kynyev Says

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3.     Putin Must Now Choose Between Being a Stalin or Becoming a Gorbachev — or Someone Else will Make that Choice, Savvin Says

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4.     Prigozhin Mutiny Showed Putin Couldn’t Mobilize Much of Anything Against It, Sonin Says

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5.     ‘Moscow Will Burn and We’ll Throw On More Matches’ – Russians in the Regions React to Prigozhin Mutiny

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6.     Putin Destroyed Russian State by Making All Its Institutions Like Prigozhin’s PMC, Matveyev Says

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7.     Moscow Must Double Share of GDP It Now Spends on Healthcare Just to Return Mortality Rates to Where They were at End of Soviet Times, Nigmatullin Says

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8.     If Regions Want Moscow to Meet Their Demands, They Must Back Them Up with Force, Russians Conclude Putin has Told the Country

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9.     Prigozhin Gave Up When He Realized He Couldn’t Reach the Other End of Putin’s Table, Russians Say 

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10.  Prigozhin Rising Showed Moscow and Other Russian Rear Areas Nearly Defenseless

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11.  Muslims from North Caucasus Signing Up for Haj from Other Russian Regions to End Run Republic Quotas

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12.  Russia’s Regional Universities Being Pushed Back into the Narrow Specialization of Soviet Times, Uzdenov Says

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13.  Fate of Arctic Depends on Whether Russia Tilts toward China or towards Europe, Shumanov Says

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14.  If Kyiv Ends Ukrainian Language Dubbing of Foreign Films, Ukraine will Suffer Immeasurably, Danilenko Says

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15.  Russians Almost Equally Divided on Whether They Trust One Another, VTsIOM Poll Finds

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16.  Likelihood Mandate of Russian ‘Peacekeepers’ in Karabakh will Be Extended ‘Decreasing,’ Moscow Analyst Says

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17.  Moscow Experts Debate Whether Russia Should or Even Can Organize a Partisan Movement in Ukraine

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18.  Putin’s Ratings Fell 9-14 Percent as a Result of Prigozhin Mutiny, Regional Officials Tell Kremlin

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19.  Russian Police Far Less Likely than FSB Officers to Engage in Illegal Forms of Law Enforcement, Experts Say

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20.  ‘Friendship of the Peoples’ has Been Redefined under Putin, Some Russians Say

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21.  Half of Russians Believe in a Hidden World Government and Some Think It was Behind Prigozhin Mutiny, Shelin Says

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22.  Russia’s Record Low Unemployment Anything but Cause for Celebration, Moscow Experts Say

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23.  Many Chechens Reportedly Said They Hoped ‘Putinists and Wagnerites would Kill One another and Leave Us Alone’

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24.  More than Three Out of Five Ukrainians have had a Close Friend or Family Member Killed or Wounded in War Against Russia, Kyiv Poll Finds

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25.  Conflict Between Iran and Afghanistan Threatens to Trigger Violence in Central Asia

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26.  Moscow Giving Up on Plans for a Separate Russian Internet and Targeting Users Instead, Russian Experts Say

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27.  Liberal Opposition Must Draw Some Unwelcome Lessons from Prigozhin Episode, Pastukhov Says

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28.  One Week after the Mutiny, Moscow TV Says Prigrozhin’s Victories in Ukraine a Myth, Russians Say. In Another, It will Deny Putin Ever Heard of Him 

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29.  Lenin May have Created Ukraine, But Yeltsin Created the Russian Federation, Russians Say

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30.  Moscow’s Approach to Oil Spills Reflects Russian Colonialism, Komi Journalist Says

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31.  Sakha Activists Promoting Latin Script Used in the 1920s for Their Language

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32.  Graduates in Ingushetia Given Diplomas Only If They Sign or Refuse to Sign a Summons to Russian Draft Offices

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33.  Prigozhin Mutiny Direct Result of Putin’s Destruction of Government Institutions, Zavadskaya Says

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34.  Putin’s System Will Degrade Even More Rapidly after His Departure than Stalin’s Did after 1953, Pastukhov Says

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35.  Orthodox Leaders in Kazakhstan Now Say Autocephaly for Their National Church is ‘Inevitable’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/07/orthodox-leaders-in-kazakhstan-now-say.html

36.  Stalin’s 1937 Deportation of Koreans First Such Action Against an Entire People

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37.  Moscow Claims to Be Saving Ukrainian from Polonization But is Actually Seeking to Destroy that Language

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38.  Kremlin has Slowed Down Change: Even Members of Brezhnev’s Politburo Weren’t in Office as Long as Putin’s Colleagues, Inozemtsev Says

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39.  Border Disputes Among Russia’s Federal Subjects Continue Long after Deadline for Resolving Them, Raising Questions about Future Referenda

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40.  Russians in New Independent States Overwhelmingly Identify with Those States and Not with Russia, New Poll Finds

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41.  War in Ukraine Forcing Some Russian Governors to Assume Higher Public Profiles

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42.  Last Year, More than 4,300 People Gave Up Russian Citizenship, Some Because They No Longer Could Put Up with being Identified as Russians

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43.  Russian Criminals Pardoned for Service in Ukraine Not Punished as Strictly if They Commit New Crimes, ‘Verstka’ Says

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44.  Kyiv has Achieved Its Goal: Russians Now Entering Crimea as If It were Foreign Territory, Russians Say

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45.  OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly Declares Russia a Colonial Empire

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46.  Those who Want to Reform Russia after Putin Must Identify Short-Term Tasks and Pursue Them before Tackling Larger Ones, Titayev Says

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47.  Apparently to Please Moscow, Ankara Now Deporting Some North Caucasians, Activists Say

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48.  Explosive Growth in Numbers of Divorces in North Caucasus Result of Moscow’s Demographic Policies, Shukyurov Says

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49.  Worker Shortages, Recession Behind Contraction of Russia’s Shadow Economy, Experts Say

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50.  Kremlin Again Seeks to Promote the Idea that Life is Becoming Better at a Time when It Isn’t

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