Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / May 29, 2024
1. Russians have Never Changed Russia But Instead have Adapted Themselves to the State, Sergey Medvedev Says
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2. Putin Goes Far Beyond Stalin in Defending All Russian Actions against Non-Russians, Sidorov Says
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3. Moscow Kept Bandera’s Two Sisters in Siberian Exile for Almost 50 Years http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscow-kept-banderas-two-sisters-in.html
4. Moscow Won’t Break Diplomatic Ties with Baltic States Because Its Embassies Defend Russian Speakers There, Zakharova Says
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5. Once Popular Radio Armenia Jokes have All But Disappeared windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/once-popular-radio-armenia-jokes-have.html
6. Russian Samizdat Today ‘isn’t Underground Literature as in Soviet Times but a Form of Contemporary Art,’ ‘Meduza’ Says
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7. Two Lessons of Soviet Collapse Russian Elites Must Learn to Avoid a Repetition, Delyagin Says
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8. Putin-Era Official Art Not ‘Socialist Realism 2.0,’ Cultural Specialists Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/putin-era-official-art-not-socialist.html
9. Is Baku Branch of ROC MP Positioning Itself to Seek Autocephaly? windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/is-baku-branch-of-roc-mp-positioning.html
10. Russianization of Services in Tatar Mosques Sparking Sharp Debate windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russianization-of-services-in-tatar.html
11. Putin Refused to Take Advantage of What Elections Can Do for an Authoritarian Regime and will Suffer as a Result, Belyayeva Says
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12. Russia Destroying Itself by Trying to Maintain Its Former Empire, Eppl Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russia-destroying-itself-by-trying-to.html
13. Russia and Belarus Seeking to Revive Sovietism but without Its Internationalism or Belief in Progress, Shamolin Says
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14. Russia Now Making a Transition Comparable in Scale to 1917 and 1991, Nikolsky Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russia-now-making-transition-comparable.html
15. Russians Buying Property in Finland and Other Western Countries Moscow Could Use for Invasion Just as It did in Ukraine Earlier, Helsinki Military Expert Warns windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russians-buying-property-in-finland-and.html
16. National Churches on Both Sides of the Political Divides in Armenia and Georgia windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/national-churches-on-both-sides-of.html
17. Moscow Benefits Because Real Division in the World is Not Between Russia and the West but between Conservatives and Globalists in Both Places, Belov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscow-benefits-because-real-division.html
18. Moscow Patriarchate Hoping to Make Its Own ‘Turn to the East’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscow-patriarchate-hoping-to-make-its.html
19. Governorships and the Power Vertical: More Complicated Career Paths windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/governorships-and-power-vertical-more.html
20. Russian Attitudes toward Ukrainians, Central Asian Migrants, and Jews have Deteriorated over Last Two Years, Levada Center Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russian-attitudes-toward-ukrainians.html
21. Entire History of Post-Soviet Russia a Contest between ‘Foxes’ and ‘Wolves,’ Eidman Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/entire-history-of-post-soviet-russia.html
22. Moscow Should Draw on History of the Komintern to Overthrow Existing World Order, Naryshkin Says
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23. Moscow-Beijing Alliance Directed Not Only Against the West but Against Russia East of the Urals, ‘Region.Expert’ Says
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24. Putin will Never Name a Successor, El Murid Says
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25. By Making Almost Everything a Question of Security, Putin has Opened the Way to Dictatorship and War, Kazantsev-Vaisman Says
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26. Murder Rate in Russia Highest in Europe and Far Higher than Moscow Admits or Reports, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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27. Environmental Issues will Soon Take Center Stage in Armenian-Azerbaijani Border Dispute
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28. Some Russian Museums Not Changing Exhibits Lest They Be Forced to Carry Propaganda windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/some-russian-museums-not-changing.html
29. Moscow’s Deportation and Denigration of Crimean Tatars Continues, Sidorov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscows-deportation-and-denigration-of.html
30. Moscow No Longer Interested in Having Kaliningrad Serve as Russia’s Showcase for the West, Kolchin Says
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31. Making Putin’s Healthcare Optimization Worse, 20 Percent of Medical Facilities in Russian Regions Don’t Have Even One Doctor
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32. Under Guise of ‘Joint Development,’ Putin Sets the Stage for Transferring Russian Land to China, Alksnis Says
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33. Russian Supreme Court Opens the Way for ‘Ex Post Facto’ Convictions in Extremism Cases windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russian-supreme-court-opens-way-for-ex.html
34. Putin’s Newspeak a Ritualized Language that Keeps Russians from Thinking, Arkhipova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/putins-newspeak-ritualized-language.html
35. Moscow Set to Slash Number of Company Towns, Ending Subsidies to Places Now So Classified
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36. Among Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s Favorite Books is Aksyonov’s ‘Island of Crimea’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/among-russian-foreign-minister-lavrovs.html
37. If Russia is to De-Imperialize, Predominantly Russian Regions Must Play a Decisive Role, Buryat Activist Says
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38. ‘Fearing to Repeat Gorbachev’s “Mistakes,” Putin Regime is Repeating Those of Nicholas II,’ Nikulin Says
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39. Sakha Portal Skeptical about New Cooperation Accord with China’s Jiangxi Province windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/sakha-portal-skeptical-about-new.html
40. Putin’s Visit to Harbin Speaks Volumes about Growing Chinese Self-Confidence windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/putins-visit-to-harbin-speaks-volumes.html
41. Composition of Russian Government Increasingly Resembles That of Soviet Predecessors with Two Major Exceptions, Mitrokhin Says
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42. Many Russian Media Outlets Set Up Abroad Since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine May Close for Lack of Funds
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43. Number of Political Prisoners Forced to Undergo Psychiatric Treatment has Risen by Five Times Since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine
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44. Call for Banning Niqāb Highlights Problems in Moscow’s Turn to the East and Stress on Traditional Values, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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45. Turning Point in the South Caucasus: Border Guards Replace Military Units Along Newly Delimited Portion of Armenian-Azerbaijani Border
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46. A Real Turning Point in the South Caucasus: Border Guards Replace Military Units Along Newly Delimited Portion of Armenian-Azerbaijani Border
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47. Administrative Borders of Soviet Republics that have Become State Borders of Independent Countries Anything but Regular
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48. Caricatures – One Feature of Soviet Times Putin Doesn’t Want to Bring Back windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/caricatures-one-feature-of-soviet-times.html
49. Number of Russians Needing Prosthetic Limbs has Grown Dramatically Since Start of Putin’s War in Ukraine, Official Russian Data Show
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50. West Using Governments in Exile to Undermine Russia and Its Allies, FSB Head Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/west-using-governments-in-exile-to.html