Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / March 1, 2023
1. Putin Won’t Declare Total Mobilization because He Lacks Qualities Needed to Be Successful as a Wartime Leader, Eidman Says
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2. Charges of ‘Discrediting Russian Army’ Far More Common Per Capita Outside the Capitals than in Them, Grayevsky Says
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3. Raising Retirement Ages Likely to Make Russia’s Demographic Problems Even Worse, Kulkova Says
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4. ‘Not Russian’ Logo Uniting Non-Russians Against Russia and Russia’s War in Ukraine
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5. Over the Last Year, Deaths among All Russians between 18 and 35 have Risen 23 Percent and Among this Cohort in Daghestan and North Ossetia Almost Doubled
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6. Five Percent of Russian Residents Did Not Want to Declare a Nationality in the Census, Ethnographer Says
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7. Key Strategic Construction Project in Far North Comes to an Abrupt Halt Putting Russia’s Future in Question, Rybin Says
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8. Russia’s Freikorps Moment
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9. More than Half of Immigrant Workers in Russia are in Moscow and St. Petersburg and Fewer than One in 200 are in Poorest Non-Russian Republics
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10. Russians Won’t Be Punished for Not Obeying New Law Against Using Foreign Terms, Duma Deputy Says
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11. NATO has Decided Putin’s Desk is Now So Long It can Serve as an Aircraft Carrier, Russians Say
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12. Moscow Responds to Rising Crime Not by Addressing Its Causes but by Lengthening Prison Sentences, Russian Criminologists Say
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13. Moscow Insists Not Only that Kuban isn’t Ukrainian but that It isn’t a Cossack Land or a Russian Colony
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14. No One Can Whitewash Stalin Except by Ignoring Russia’s Spiritual Traditions, Tsipko Says
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15. Putin has Been ‘Absolute Evil’ from the Beginning, Zaidman Says
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16. Lavrov Favors Extending Russia’s Genocidal Policy of Re-Educating Children from Occupied Portions of Ukraine to Other Regions and Countries
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17. Lithuania May Soon have Two Orthodox Churches – One Subordinate to Moscow and the Second to Constantinople
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18. Navalny Still hasn’t Faced Up to Russian Imperialism, His Own, the Kremlin’s and That of the Russian People, Galko Says
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19. ‘Hurrah Compatriots’ Now Include Descendants of First Anti-Bolshevik Russian Emigration
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20. Ukrainian War’s Impact Helps Keep Russia’s Unemployment Numbers Low, Experts Say
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21. ‘Biden’s in Kyiv and Putin Isn’t’ – Russian Bloggers on the Two Presidents
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22. Russia’s Ruling Class Sees No Alternative to Putin or Support for His War, Preobrazhensky Says
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23. Moscow Patriarchate Seeking Immediate Political Gains Rather than Mass Evangelization in Africa, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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24. Putin’s Claim that Lenin Created Ukraine Alarming Non-Russians whose Republics Bolshevik Leader Also Set Up, Solovyeva Says
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25. West Bears Some Responsibility for Russians’ Failure to Protest War in Ukraine, Filipenko Says
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26. Moscow has Transformed How Russian Cities Look to Propagandize Putin’s War, ‘Novaya Vladka’ Reports
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27. Putin’s Successor Must Be Chosen by Matchsticks as No One Wants to Volunteer to Go to the Hague, Russians Say
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28. UN CLCS Accepts Russia’s Documentation of Its Claims on Arctic Seabed, Increasing Likelihood It will Do the Same for Claims of Others
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29. In 2021, Kremlin Made Plans to Absorb Belarus as Soon as It had Achieved Regime Change in Ukraine, New Document Shows
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30. Are the Wakhan Kyrgyz Finally Going to Get to Go Home?
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31. Number of Ethnic Russians Grew in Soviet Period but has Fallen Since, Census Shows
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32. Representatives of Middle Volga Nations in Orenburg Declining in Number but Those of Central Asian Ones Increasing, Census Shows
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33. Putin Fears Russians won’t Remain a Single Nation if Russian Federation is Divided Up
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34. Putin Plays Poker Not Chess and He has a Losing Hand, Kasparov Says
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35. Number of Mosques in Turkmenistan has Been Cut Back to That at End of Soviet Times, Mitrokhin Says
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36. Duma Deputies Now Must Respond to Commands Not Just to ‘Vote’ Correctly but to ‘Offer Their Paws’ and ‘Fetch,’ Russians Say
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37. Telegram Channel Promoting ‘Sick Outs’ in Russia to Disrupt Moscow’s War Effort
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38. War in Ukraine has 18 Important Lessons for Military and Defense Policies of All Countries, ‘The Insider’ Says
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39. Western Leaders Want Ukraine to Win but Russia Not to Suffer Defeat, Two Desires that Can’t be Squared, Skobov Says
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40. Moscow Hopes to Attract Seven Million ‘Ideological’ Immigrants from Europe and US
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41. Émigré Mokshas Unite to Fight against Russification and Mordvinization and for National Independence
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42. Soviet Union Ethnically Rooted Leadership in Non-Russian Republics Not to Promote These Nations but to Maintain Its Colonial Empire, Galko Says
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43. Almost Twice as Many North Caucasian Soldiers have Died in Ukraine than Russian Siloviki Died in North Caucasus over the Last 11 Years
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44. After Russia Disintegrates, Siberia Should have a Status like Antarctica, Saltayev Says
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45. Last Year ‘a Turning Point in Russian History’ Rivalling 1917, Editors of ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Say
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46. Putin Not NATO is ‘Transforming Russia into Muscovy,’ Shtepa Says
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47. ‘Parade of Autocephalies’ Leaving ‘an Imperial Church without an Empire,’ Desnitsky Says
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48. Sufis Aren’t an Apolitical Counterweight to Political Islam, Babadzhanov Says
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49. Only Military Defeat Allows Contiguous Empires to Come Apart without Domestic Explosions or Immediate Moves to Take Revenge, Skripov Says
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50. Television Sets have Replaced Icons as Focal Point in Russian Peasant Homes
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