Paul Goble’s 50 New Windows on Eurasia
11 March, 2022
Note: As many of you know, because of illness, I fell behind in producing Windows last fall. I have been working to catch up. But I cannot fail to cover the most important event of the intervening period: Putin’s expanded invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, I have been writing about events from the intervening period and about those connected with events taking place now. I have decided to continue that approach. I will thus be issuing via email batches of 50 Windows at a time which include both. Paul Goble
1. Faith in the Irrational Increasing throughout Russian Society, Anthropologist Says
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2. Chess Teaches Dangerous Lessons and Must be Banned, Some Russians Now Joke
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3. Toward a Tipping Point? Only Regional Media are Talking about Russia, Shtepa Says
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4. Turkey’s Circassians Denounce Putin’s War in Ukraine, Fearful of Its Consequences for Turkey and the North Caucasus
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5. Because of Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine, Russians Will Now Return to Much of What They Faced 30 Years Ago but Without Hope, Shelin Says
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6. Putin’s War in Ukraine has Not Restored ‘Crimean Consensus’ but Rather Deepened Divides in Russian Society, Andreychuk Says
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7. Putin’s War in Ukraine Puts in Jeopardy Moscow’s Aspirations in the Arctic
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8. Kremlin Risks Having Russians View Conflict in Ukraine Not as Russia’s War but as Putin’s, Sharafutdinova Says
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9. For Kremlin Imperialists, Chechens who ‘Cleanse’ Ukrainian Cities are ‘More Russian’
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10. ‘Putin’s Military Success in Ukraine has No Meaning Because Politically He’s Already Lost the War,’ Pozharsky Says
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11. Putin Together with His FSB Driving Force Behind Russian Aggression in Ukraine, Luzin Says
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12. Leaders of Non-Russian Republics Backing Putin’s War in Ukraine Said Losing Legitimacy in Eyes of Their Nations
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13. Kremlin Sets Up Internet Portal to Help Regional Leaders Calm Population and Act in Face of Sanctions
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14. Industrialization Played Bigger Role in Russianization of Belarus than Moscow’s Russification Program, Buzinnyi Says
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15. 141 to 5 – the Clearest Measure Yet of Russia’s Isolation as a Result of Putin’s War
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16. Many Officers and Men of the Anti-Bolshevik Forces Lived to See the End of Soviet Power
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17. Federal Subject Heads Given Another Potentially Troublesome Task – Reporting Russian Combat Losses in Ukraine
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18. Orthodox Christian Tatars Need Their Own Autocephalous Church, Sidorov Says
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19. Taliban Officers Feel a Russian Defeat in Ukraine Would Allow Them to Intervene Successfully in Tajikistan
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20. Any Russian Official Supporting Ukraine Must Give Up His Post, Volodin Says
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21. ‘Russian’ Combat Losses in Ukraine Appear to Be Disproportionately Non-Russians or Ethnic Russians from Rural Areas
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22. Moscow Issues Slide Show for Russian Schools Designed to Teach Pupils to Hate Ukraine
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23. The Fewer Allies the Kremlin has, the More It Relies on Force Alone, Travin Says
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24. Putin’s War in Ukraine Leads Kremlin to End Two-Track Media Arrangements, Irisova Says
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25. Putin has Failed to Define What a Russian Victory in Ukraine would Be, Golts Says
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26. View that Sufism Represents a Stabilizing Factor Across Former Soviet Space Wins Support in Moscow
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27. Lists of ‘Enemies of the People’ Beginning to Appear in Russia
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28. Russian Economic Difficulties at Time of War in Ukraine Very Different from Those in Earlier Crises, Inozemtsev Says
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29. With Sanctions, Russia Faces a Healthcare Catastrophe, Medical Experts Say
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30. Under Putin, Russian Mass Political Culture Once Again Culture of Stalinism, Velikanova Says
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31. Kremlin Pollsters Use Means Other than Falsification to Boost Reported Popular Backing for Putin’s War
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32. With War Raging in Neighboring Ukraine, Transdniestria Presses for Recognition as an Independent State
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33. Ideological Divide between Russia and the West Far Today Broader than It was during the Cold War, Skobov Says
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34. Russia Not a Separate Civilization as Putin Says but Instead a Separate Branch of Human Evolution, Some Russians Now Joke
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35. Book on Folklore of Circassian Diaspora Published in Turkey Goes On Sale in North Caucasus
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36. Putin’s War Threatens Ukraine, Russia, and the Middle East with Hunger, El Murid Says
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37. Moscow isn’t Trying to Win Over Turkic Nations inside Russia but Rather to Destroy Them via Assimilation, Gumbatov Says
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38. During World War II, Moscow Drafted or Didn’t Draft Non-Russian Nations Depending on Its Assessment of Their Loyalty and Preparation, Butakov Says
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39. Like Putin Now, Stalin held Power to His Death But the USSR was in Trouble
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40. Russians will Continue to Protest Putin’s War Because This is ‘a Matter of Life and Death’ for Them, OVD-Info Activist Says
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41. Best Way to End a Pandemic is to De-Nazify a Neighboring Country, Russians Joke
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42. Only Military Defeat in Ukraine Can Stop Putin from Pursuing His Larger Goals, Skobov Says
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43. Tokayev’s Policies since January Riots Exacerbating Ethnic Russian Flight from Kazakhstan, Kurmanov Says
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44. Ukraine’s Muslim Leaders United Against Putin’s War; Russia’s Very Much Divided
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45. Russia on Brink of Economic Crisis Like the One that Brought Down the USSR, Blant Says
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46. Because Lukashenka has Allowed Russia to Partially Occupy Belarus, Tsikhanouskaya Says She is Forming a Government in Exile
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47. Putin Recognizes Borders and Political Systems of Post-Soviet States Only If They Don’t Allow Outsiders to Influence Them, Sidorov Says
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48. In Face of De Facto Censorship, Regional News Agency ‘7×7’ Struggles to Find Way to Remain Active
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49. Moscow to Expand List of ‘Unfriendly’ Countries and Impose Real Costs for Those on It
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50. Moscow Patriarchate has Moved into Africa Not to Punish Anyone over Ukraine but to Provide Cover for FSB Officers, Gorevoy Says
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