Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia
October 24, 2022
I would like to thank those of you who sent messages of sympathy and encouragement after I reported my health problems. For each and every one of them, I am very grateful. Paul Goble
1. Many among Numerically Small Peoples of Russia Fear Mobilization and Flight of Their Young Men to Avoid It Will Accelerate Demise of Their Peoples
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2. Circassians in Karbardino-Balkaria Demand End to Putin’s Mobilization
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3. Russian Oligarchs More Interested in Moving Workers Away from Rich Central Cities than in Winning War in Ukraine, Activists Say
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4. Last Aleut Speaker Dies in Russia and Only One Nivkh Speaker Remains on Sakhalin
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5. ‘There is No Reason to Expect a Split among Russian Elites’ over Ukraine or Anything Else Anytime Soon, Gelman Says
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6. Armed Resistance to Mobilization Quite Possible in Ingushetia, Sautieva Says
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7. At End of Soviet Times, Non-Russians Asserted ‘We aren’t Soviets;’ Now in Putin’s Time, They’re Saying ‘We aren’t Russians’
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8. Putin Wants to Get Out of Ukraine with Enough of a Victory to Convince Russians at Home What He has Done was Worth It, Pastukhov Says
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9. Russian Officials Must Meet Popular Demands about Living Conditions or Face an Explosion, Pisanov Says
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10. Putin Always Accuses Others of Doing or Planning What He is Doing or Planning Himself, Preobrazhensky Says
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11. Despite Putin’s Push for Northern Sea Route, Russian Settlement at Dikson is Dying
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12. ‘We Can’t Stop Kremlin but We Mustn’t Stop Protesting,’ Russian Activist Says
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13. Putin Making Anti-Moscow Attitudes Worse by Mobilizing Microscopic Share of Capital Residents Compared to Much Larger Figures Elsewhere, Rudkovsky Says
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14. Tajik President Demands Putin Respect His Country and Other Smaller Nations Lest Region Undergo a Repeat of 1991
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15. Putin’s War in Ukraine is Undercutting Efforts to Reduce Gender Difference in Life Expectancy and Leaving Russian Women with Fewer Men to Choose a Marriage Partner, Experts Say
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16. Putin Gets a Victory from Ukrainian War – in Belarus – with Arrival of Thousands of Russian Forces There
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17. This Year, Tatars Won’t Mark Anniversary of 1552 with Public Meeting, VTOTs Head Says
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18. Is Russia Now Occupied or at War with Another Country? Russians Said to Be Asking
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19. Prospects for Putin’s Overthrow Increasing, Eidman Says
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20. ‘Russia Not a Country but a Religion,’ Luchikhin Says
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21. Moscow Increasingly Relying on Sea Transit to Supply Kaliningrad
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22. Shamans Support War in Ukraine in Hopes of Gaining Official Recognition as a Traditional Religion of Russia, But Experts Doubt That is Possible
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23. New Russian Emigration Far Less Religious than Earlier One But Some Fear It May Seek Alternative to Moscow Patriarchate, Faustova Says
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24. Bashkirs Launch Armed Underground Movement against Moscow’s War and for National Independence
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25. Putin’s Imposition of Martial Law in Regions He Seeks to Annex ‘Preparation for Mass Deportations’ of Ukrainians, Kyiv Says
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26. Kyiv’s Recognition of Chechnya as an Occupied Country will Be Followed by a Ukrainian Recognition of the Circassian Genocide, Shmulyevich Says
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27. Navalny Activist Winning Support for Maintaining List of Chuvash Killed in Ukraine
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28. Russia Desperately Needs Those who have Fled the Country to Return but the Kremlin Equally Desperately Doesn’t, ‘Politsovet’ Says
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29. Russian Navy and Its Shipbuilding Capabilities in ‘a Sea of Problems,’ Analyst Says
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30. Non-Russian Share of Russia’s Population May Soon Be Not the 22 Percent Moscow Claims But Twice That — or More than 40 Percent, Kyiv Scholar Says
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31. Russia’s Enemies Can Attack It without Ever Leaving Their Own Territory, Russians Reflect
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32. Pressure on Relatives of Those who Emigrate Now So Widespread, Opposition Group Giving Advice on How to Respond
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33. Talk about Separatism in Smolensk Apparently Worrying Some in Moscow
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34. ‘Russia has Lost the War in Ukraine but Ukraine has Not Yet Won,’ Ayvazovskaya Says
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35. Kremlin Using Special but Potentially Dangerous Ideological Messages to Get Muslims to Fight for Russian World, Sidorov Says
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36. Idea that Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine is ‘a Holy War’ Sparked Violence in Belgorod, Moscow Analyst Says
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37. Central Asians No Longer Willing to Tolerate Being Treated like Russia’s ‘Younger Brothers,’ Polovinko Says
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38. Putin’s Martial Law Less about Occupation of Ukraine than about ‘Occupation of Russia Itself,’ Portnikov Says
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39. Ukrainian War has Made People in Russia from Other Former Soviet Republics More Conscious of Their Ethnicities and Led Some to Return Home, Bekaryan Says
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40. Possibility of a Forcible Change of Power in Russia Can No Longer Be Dismissed, Pastukhov Says
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41. FSB Now Controls Every Mufti and Imam in Russia, One Imam who Fled West Says
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42. Putin’s Mobilization Decree Boosts Powers of Regional Heads, Creating Danger Russia will Become a Country of Principaliites, Kucher Says
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43. So Far, Only Putin Supports Kazakh President’s Call for Promoting Russian Across CIS
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44. Eastern European and Baltic Countries May Follow Ukraine in Recognizing Ichkeria as ‘Temporarily Occupied,’ Mukhametov Says
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45. Russia Now Faces What is Likely to Be a Very Troubled Fall Draft
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46. Kremlin’s Latest Moves Likely to Accelerate the Demise of the Russian Federation and Make It More Violent, Sidorov Says
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47. Putin Using Belarus to ‘Internationalize’ and Escalate His Conflict with the West, Skobov Says
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48. Titles Not Texts What Putin’s Messaging is All About, Pastukhov Says
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49. Punitive Psychiatry Returns with a Vengeance as Russians Told that ‘Normal People Don’t Protest’
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50. An Inconvenient and Unwelcome Truth: ‘No One Can Move the Popular Leader of a Nuclear Power Except the Man Himself,’ ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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