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