Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia
20 November, 2022
1. Tehran behind Small but Growing Armed Underground in Azerbaijan, Moscow Security Analyst Says
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2. West doesn’t View Non-Russians Now the Way It Did Chechens in 1990s, Kalmyk Leader Says
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3. After Kherson, Moscow Prepared for Monologue without Any Preliminary Conditions, Russians Say
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4. Moscow TV Says Almost Nothing about Most Discussed Event in Russia Today – Kherson – and So Russians Turn Elsewhere
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5. Moscow Not Happy Kyiv Might Recognize Tatarstan but Lacks Resources to Take Draconian Steps Unless Ukrainian Conflict is Frozen, Sidorov Says
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6. Ukrainian War has Left Russian Nationalists Divided and Likely will Lead to Many Regionally Based Russian Nationalisms after It Ends, ‘Cherta’ Survey Concludes
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7. Putin’s Favorite Orthodox Leader Calls for Making Peace in Ukraine
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8. Kherson Defeat Could End Putin’s Victory Cult as Crimean War Defeat Did Russia’s 19th Century One, Klishin Says
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9. Even Kremlin Pollster Reports Ratings of Putin and Russian Government have Fallen
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10. Kremlin Plans to Launch ‘Anti-Colonial Movement’ against the West to Shore Up Domestic Support, ‘Meduza’ Reports
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11. Russia’s Small Cities Losing Population at the Rate of Three Percent a Year
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12. What are Putin’s Propagandists Thinking in Turning on Him? Inozemtsev Asks
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13. Had Andropov Lived, Ukraine and Other National Republics would Have Been Destroyed and the USSR would have Survived, Some Say
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14. Russians Told Potholes Won’t Be Fixed Because They’ll Slow Down Ukrainian Forces
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15. Russia Now Faces Largest Labor Shortage Since 1993, Experts Say
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16. Russians Near Ukrainian Border Want to Sell Their Residences; Russians There and Elsewhere want to Build Bomb Shelters
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17. ‘Destructive Information’ from Abroad Directed at Non-Russians in the North Caucasus, the Middle Volga and the Far Each has Risen Dramatically Since Start of Year, FADN Official Says
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18. Once Again, Western Analysts of Russia Divided into ‘Physicists’ and ‘Lyricists,’ Pastukhov Says
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19. ‘Putin Believes He Can Defeat West Because He Believes in Gumilyev’s Theories,’ Pertsev Says
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20. Relatives of Missing Tajik Migrant Workers in Russia Fear They’ve Been Impressed into Russian Army
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21. Budapest Memorandum’s Failure Makes Nuclear War Likely if Russia Disintegrates, Khodorkovsky Says
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22. 40 Middle Volga Residents ‘Say No to War’ in New Book
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23. Moscow Now Less Worried about Ethnic Challenges and More about Regional Ones
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24. Moscow Should Join Organization of Turkic States as an Observer, Semyonov Says
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25. Moscow Bringing More Draft Evasion Cases Not Because There are More Evaders but Because Officials No Longer are Ignoring the Problem, Legal Specialist Says
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26. Russia’s Exit from Arctic Council ‘Becoming Inevitable,’ Pustovoytova Says
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27. A Century Ago, Bolsheviks Tried to Destroy All Cossacks; Now Putin Regime wants Only Those who Fit Its Procrustean Definition to Flourish
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28. A Third Russian Exodus – from the Cities to the Villages
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29. Petersburgers Want to Close Newly-Opened Vagner Center There
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30. Regionalization of Russian Language Now So Advanced that Muscovites Have Little Difficulty Knowing Where Someone is From, Shcherbakov Says
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31. Putin Regime Moving Beyond Tightening the Screws to Tightening the ‘Bindings’ that Hold Russians Together, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says
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32. Turkic Nogays Now Seeking Independent Statehood
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33. Moscow Puts Russia’s Poorest Regions on Track to Become Poorer Still and May Soon be Combine Them with Neighbors, Experts Say
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34. Moscow Bans Film on 1920s Famine from Being Shown in Theaters
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35. Despite Obstacles, Kalmyks Now have a Real Path Forward to Independence, Opposition Leader Says
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36. ‘Grani’ Portal Offers Chronicle of Russia’s Ongoing Disintegration
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37. KBR Scholars Say Powers Now Using Methods of 1920s and 1930s to Shut Down Nalchik Humanities Research Institute
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38. As Ukraine War Grinds On, Moscow Faces Ever More Military Veterans and the Rising Cost of Supporting Them, ‘Politsovet’ Warns
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39. Russia Lacks Ships and Icebreakers Capable of Coping with Early Ice in Arctic, ‘Barents Observer’ Warns
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40. Mobilization and Annexations Changing Relationship between Kremlin and Russian People, Nikolay Petrov Says
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41. Kadyrov Wants to Raise and Deploy Sufi Battalions in Ukraine But Experts Doubt That will Happen
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42. Half of All Russians Say Unmarried Couples Living Together Outside of Marriage ‘Normal,’ Levada Center Reports
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43. Russian Courts Giving Lighter Sentences to Veterans of Ukrainian War than to Non-Veterans Guilty of Similar Crimes, ‘Vertska’ Reports
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44. Russia’s Only Chance for Normalcy is ‘Temporary or Permanent Partial De-Sovereignization,’ Inozemtsev Says
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45. Ukraine by Resisting and Poland by Existing to Blame for Rocket Attack on Village There, Russians Say
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46. Putin’s Annexation of Ukrainian Land Means Moscow Can Legally Send Draftees There
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47. Russians would Accept the Ukrainian Re-Absorption of Crimea Just as They have the Ukrainian Re-Conquest of Kherson, Shelin Says
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48. Kremlin Chooses to Use rather than Ban Telegram Channels
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49. Moscow has Introduced Course Promoting Civic Identity in 42 of Russia’s 80 Muslim Training Centers
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50. Fears Spread that Russian Soldiers Wounded in Ukraine May Not Get Help They Need Because Regions Don’t Have the Money
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