Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / August 21, 2023
1. Russian Scholars Find a Godforsaken Settlement of Old Believers in Siberia who Still Believe in Elections and the Regular Rotation of People in Power
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2. Mordvinia’s Moksha Nation Issues Detailed Manifesto on the Path to Independence
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3. Russian Authorities to Block Commemorations of 1918 Izhevsk-Votkinsk Workers Revolt against Soviet Power
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4. Russia Faces ‘Tajikification’ Unless Officials Stop Giving Citizenship to Tajiks, Mironov Says
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5. Putin Claims Russians and Ukrainians One People But Russian Jailors Don’t Treat Them the Same, Torturing Ukrainians Far More Often than Russians, Report Says
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6. Putin’s War in Ukraine has Deeply Affected Mental State of Russians, Psychologists Say
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7. Putin for the Time Being has Given Carte Blanche to Siloviki to Persecute Those They View as Opponents, Kolesnikov Says
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8. Ingrian Regionalists and Ingrian Nationalists have Very Different Agendas — but Both Threaten Moscow
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9. Both Moscow and Tsinkhval have Reasons for Russia Not Annexing South Ossetia as Many had Expected Would Happen by Now, Two Russian Analysts Say
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10. Anthropologist Offers Seven Practical Steps for Russians who Want to Cease Being Imperialists
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11. Russians Now Avoid Putting Things Off for Tomorrow Because Even a Day Later Everything May be Too Expensive or Banned
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12. Russia’s Real Brain Drain Involves People Leaving Science rather than Scientists Leaving the Country, Analysts Say
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13. Ukraine Must Seek Restoration Not of Its 1991 Borders but Those of 2003, Osavolyuk Says
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14. Moscow Now Bringing Treason Charges So Often That It is ‘Almost Impossible’ for Any Russian to Avoid Them, ‘Holod’ Study Concludes
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15. To Avoid Charges and to Keep Funding, Russian Doctors under Putin Frequently Lie about Causes of Patients’ Deaths, New Study Finds
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16. Siberian Battalion Commander in Ukraine Hopes for United States of Siberia
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17. Russian Births in 2023 Falling to Levels Comparable to Those at Start of 19th Century, Raksha Says
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18. State of Internet and Especially VPN in Russia ‘Already Worse than in China,’ Klimaryev Says
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19. Smolensk Oblast Deputy Announces in Warsaw Formation of Smolensk Republic Center to Seek Independence for His Region
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20. Khakassia Election Campaign Shows How Putin Regime Might Collapse, Pertsev Says
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21. Navalny Far from Only Russian Political Prisoner Moscow is Continuing to Tighten the Screws
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22. Russians Leaving Company Towns at Three Times the Rate They’re Leaving Other Cities of Similar Size, New Study Finds
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23. Sakha Activists Meet in Secret to Plan Campaign for Independence of Their Republic
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24. Venetian Manifesto Seeks to Unite People Around the World who Favor the Defeat, Demilitarization and Decolonization of Russia
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25. Anti-Semitism Spreading in Russia as Part of Attack on Everything Non-Russian
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26. By Boosting Status of Veterans of Ukrainian War, Putin Provoking ‘Serious Split’ in Russian Society, Pertsev Says
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27. Could Jerusalem Patriarchate be Russian Orthodox Church’s Most Effective Defense in Ukraine?
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28. Muscovite Empire will Disintegrate in Four Different Ways Reflecting How It was Assembled, Grayevsky Says
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29. Kremlin Using Ethno-Nationalists Against Regionalists, Shtepa Says
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30. Russians Say Putin Should have Known to Build a Tunnel to Crimea, Not a Bridge
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31. Kremlin’s Arrest of Kagarlitsky has Seriously Reduced Number of ‘Putinverstehers’ Abroad, Kudyukin Says
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32. Ruble’s Fall Likely to Lead as Many as Half of Central Asian Immigrants in Russia to Go Home or Move to Other Countries, Experts Say
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33. Older Russians Reject Suggestion that USSR was an Empire and that a Post-Colonial Discourse is Needed, Makarov Says
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34. Non-Russians, Not Moscow or Western Experts or Politicians, Will Determine Fate of Russian Statehood, just as in 1991, Tilishchak Says
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35. Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine and Anti-Western Position Direct Products of the 1990s, Skobov Says
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36. For Putin, Corruption a Double-Edged Sword, Naporozhsky Says
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37. Ukrainians Really are Different than Russians: They Believe They can Defeat Putin, Some Russians Say
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38. Mikhail Yershov, Russian who Spent Longer in the GULAG than Anyone Else, Recalled
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39. Translating Bible into Languages of Numerically Small Peoples Can Help Save Them, Russian Scholars Say
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40. One Third of Russians Arrested for Diversionary Actions on Railroads Under 18, Government Figures Show
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41. A Coincidence or a Cause? Daghestani Infrastructure Collapses and Protests Begin a Few Days after Kyiv Publicist Talks about Using Drones against that Republic’s Facilities
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42. Putin Regime Relying More on Linguistic Analysis than Psychiatric Imprisonment because the Former is ‘Simpler and Cheaper,’ Independent Moscow Psychiatrist Says
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43. Tyva Most Dangerous Place to Live in Russian Federation, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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44. Smolensk Separatist Declaration in Warsaw Creates Problems for KPRF at Home, Russian Analysts Say
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45. Japanese Parliamentarian Brushes Off Moscow Protest about Tokyo Meeting in Support of Russia’s De-Colonization
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46. Stylistically, Putin May Be Like Stalin but His Historical Role is Far More like Lenin’s, Dobrenko Says
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47. Kremlin Thinks It Must Keep Russia’s Population above 146 Million, But There is Another Option, Starovoytov Says
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48. Climate Change and Ukraine War May Combine to Lead to Revival of Siberian River Diversion Scheme, Some in Central Asia Believe
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49. Tajikistan Changes Names of Almost 5,000 Place Names, Dropping Soviet and Russian Names and Replacing Them with Tajik Ones
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50. Russians Say Generals and Officials Now Dying Unexpectedly May Return to Life in Argentina
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