Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / March 1, 2024
1. Navalny Remembered Beyond the Ring Road as ‘the Muscovite Beloved in Russia’s Regions’
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2. Navalny’s Murder ‘Radicalizing Both Elites and Opposition,’ Mikhaylov Says
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3. Moscow’s Compatriots Program Allowing Too Many Non-Slavs to Enter Russia and Must Be Revised or Stopped, Shustov Says
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4. For Two Groups, Russian Presidential Election Remains Important even if Outcome is Already Certain, Levinson Says
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5. Putin’s War in Ukraine Means De-Colonization ‘No Longer a Metaphor’ in North Caucasus, Music Producer from Nalchik but Now in Georgia Says
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6. At Current Rate of Advance, Moscow will Need 1,000 Years to Occupy Ukraine, Some Russians Say
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7. Russia ‘Can’t Free Itself from Putin’s Madness on Its Own’ and Today’s West has Neither Will Nor Plan to Do So, Inozemtsev Says
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8. Non-Russians at Home and Abroad haven’t Forgotten Navalny’s Earlier Xenophobic Positions, Kosanov Says
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9. ‘Sudden Death Syndrome’ New Euphemism for ‘Sudden Bullet Wound Syndrome,’ Russians Say
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10. Decolonization Must Begin with Acknowledgement that Russia was and is an Empire, Sulyandiga Says
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11. Russian Society does Not have Either the Means of Achieving Consensus or Stable Divisions but Regularly Shifts Direction, Mokhov Says
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12. Putin’s Murder of Navalny Gives Permission to Dictators Everywhere to Do Their Worst, Alexievich Says
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13. Moscow Passes 300th Anniversary of Russian Academy of Sciences ‘Without Fanfare’
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14. Moscow and Minsk Seek to Destroy Radically Conservative Orthodox Group whose Views are Spreading within ROC MP
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15. Lack of Amenities in Russia’s Villages and Smaller Cities Behind Rather than Low Pay Primary Cause of Flight of Young to Major Cities, New Study Finds
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16. Fear of Destabilization has Heightened Russian Hostility to Any Opposition and Support for Harsh Punishments, Makarkin Says
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17. Putin Following Same Strategy in Navalny Case He Earlier Used with Magnitsky, Pastukhov Says
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18. Moscow’s Use of Trans-National Repression has Grown and Become Unashamed Since Start of Expanded Invasion of Ukraine, Experts Say
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19. Ethnic Russians in Non-Russian Republics Increasingly Insisting They’re ‘Indigenous’ – and Non-Russians There are Resisting
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20. Russian Defense Ministry Facing Problems Recruiting Women Prisoners to Fight in Ukraine
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21. After Killing Navalny, Putin Likely to Turn on His Own Most Rabid Supporters Next, Pastukhov Says
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22. Moscow Set to Re-Establish Nationalities Ministry, an Institution It can’t Live Without but can’t Live With
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23. ‘In Bad Times like These, Anyone who Thinks Turns Out to be a Dissident,’ Russians Say
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24. Not Everyone from Altai Republic Fighting for Moscow in Ukraine is Doing So Out of Poverty, Altai Émigré Says
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25. Moscow Tightening Screws on Circassians who have Returned to Their North Caucasus Homeland, Reducing Prospects for Revival of National Movement There, Activists Say
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26. Moscow Weaponizes Ethnography Institute by Naming Politically-Connected Finno-Ugric Specialist as Its New Head
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27. Russian Ignorance of the Past and Kowtowing to West Blamed for New ‘Krestopad’
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28. Russian Courts Giving Lighter Sentences to Women Guilty of Killing Their Partners in Partial Compensation for Limits on Their Ability to Claim Self-Defense, HSE Study Finds
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29. Putin has Used Laws to Repress More People over His Last Term Alone than Khrushchev or Brezhnev did in the Same Way during Similar Periods while in Power, ‘Project Media’ Finds
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30. Putin Says He’s Fighting Satanism in Ukraine but Uses and Even Gives Awards to Satanists Released from Russian Jails to Fight There, Makhacheva Says
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31. Putin’s Russification Drive Creates Conditions for Russia’s Disintegration when Moscow becomes Weak, Eidman Says
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32. Regular Appearance of NATO Equipment on Patriotic Banners Reflects Deeper Problem in Russian Administration, Markelov Says
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33. On 80th Anniversary of Deportation of Chechens and Ingush, Moscow’s Genocide of These Nations Continues
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34. Ukrainian Parliament Recognizes Right of Ingush People to Form an Independent State
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35. Putin and His Country will Lose Even if Russia ‘Wins’ in Ukraine, History Teaches
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36. Russian Court Bans Khabarovsk Movement as ‘Extremist’ Because It Opposed Putin
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37. If Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were Alive, Russians Say, They would have Collaborated to Write ‘War and the Idiot’
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38. Division between Russians in Russia and Russians who’ve Left Deepening, Tenisheva Says
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39. Abyss Opens between What Russians Want and What They Expect as Long as Putin is in Power, ‘Khronika’ Poll Finds
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40. Ethnic Armenians who Fled Karabakh Reject Yerevan Plan to Resettle Them in Border Areas
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41. For Russians, the First Year of Putin’s Expanded War was Bad, but the Second was Far Worse, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says
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42. After Two Years of War, Russians May Look the Same Externally but They’ve Changed Internally in Fundamental Ways, Rubtsova Says
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43. Brutality within Russian Army in Ukraine Now ‘Worse than in Hell,’ Veterans Say
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44. Moscow Makes ‘Flowerism’ — the Placing of Flowers at Monuments to Opposition Figures like Navalny – a Crime, Russians Say
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45. Idea that Russian People Can Peacefully Overthrow Kremlin Dictatorship is a Myth, Mitrokhin Says
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46. West and Russian Opposition Must Identify and Promote Divisions within Putin Elite if Russia is to Be Changed in a Positive Direction, Inozemtsev Says
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47. Few Russians Now Calling for Talks with Kyiv Prepared for Moscow to Make Any Concessions to Ukraine, Volkov Says
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48. New Push in Duma to Denounce 1990 Shevardnadze-Baker Agreement on Bering Straits
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49. Moscow Plans to Create ‘Hybrid Colonies’ Where Those in Preliminary Detention will Be Held Alongside Those Already Sentenced to Various Kinds of Prisons and Camps
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50. No One in Russia is Going to Vote for Anyone Calling for Country’s Disintegration, Shapovalova Says
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