Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 17, 2023
1. Moscow Likes to Say It has the Second Strongest Army in the World but It has Now Proven It has the Second Strongest One in Ukraine
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2. Drying Up of Rivers Threatens Survival of Russian State, Mishina Says
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3. Anti-Putin Forces in Belgorod Must Drop Moscow-Centric Views and Adopt Regionalist Ones to Be Most Effective, Shtepa Says
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4. Russia on Course to Having Fewer Births in 2023 than in Any Post-Soviet Year, Raksha Says
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5. Kyiv Must Carefully Design Its Approaches to Russia’s Non-Russians Because the Latter Vary So Widely, Ukrainian Analysts Say
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6. Russians under Putin Lack Any Sense of Being a Cohesive National Community, Gozman Says
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7. Russia is Not the Orthodox Iran Some Believe, Baunov Says
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8. Putin’s Attack on Non-Russian Languages Prompting Young North Caucasians to Create Independent Spaces to Promote Them, Pukhayev Says
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9. Kyiv Behaving Treacherously by Driving Out Russian Troops without Announcing a Counter-Offensive, Russians Say
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10. Moscow Insists It Didn’t Blow Up the Kakhovka Dam Just as It says It Didn’t Invade Ukraine – and with Exactly the Same Credibility, Russians Say
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11. Russia Witnessing ‘Start of Disintegration of Its Army, Something that Always Precedes Collapse of the State,’ Pastukhov Says
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12. Tatarstan Exile Government Backs Return of Kuriles to Japan
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13. Moscow Admits Occupied Crimea Among Nine Russian Regions Suffering Serious Water Shortages
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14. Ukraine’s Population May have Fallen Below 30 Million, Some Estimates Suggest
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15. New Circassian Committee More Political and Youth Oriented than Other Circassian Groups, Organizers Say
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16. Given Growth in Number of Terrorist Cases, Russia’s Supreme Court Asks Duma to Allow More Courts to Hear Them
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17. Russia’s Orthodox and Muslims Clash on Origins and thus the Future of Russian State
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18. With His Hyper-Centralization, Putin is Making a Civil War More Likely, El Murid Says
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19. Metropolitan Tikhon, Putin’s Favorite Priest, Replaces Stephen King as Most Published Author in Russia
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20. Will Rare Environmentalist Victory on Wrangel Island Survive Demise of Greenpeace Russia?
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21. West Consistently Underestimates Russian Unity, Moscow Experts Say
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22. Northern Remnant of Aral Sea Now Struggling to Survive
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23. Fearful of Secession in Gorno-Badakhshan, Dushanbe Cracks Down on Ismailis and Aga Khan
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24. Russia Spends Less than One Percent of What Sweden Does for Each Prisoner but Keeps those Incarcerated Seven Times as Long, ‘To Be Exact’ Reports
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25. Iceland to Suspend Embassy Operations in Moscow
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26. Putin-Era Ideology has Differed from Soviet One but Increasingly Resembles It, Shelin Says
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27. Yeltsin’s Firing on Supreme Soviet in 1993 First Post-Soviet ‘Special Operation’ and Set the Stage for Putin System, Novoselov Says
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28. Putin’s ‘Destruction of Russian Statehood’ Means the Future will Be Even Worse than the Present, Oreshkin Says
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29. Kyiv Couldn’t Deprive Crimea of Water but Moscow Could and Has, Russians Say
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30. Having Been Forced to Disband Its Constitutional Court, Tatarstan has Formed a Constitutional Council to Perform Many of the Same Tasks
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31. Russians No Longer Think Senior Male in Families Should have the Right to Make All Decisions, a Shift with Significant Political Consequences
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32. Putin has Faced and Put Down Three Moves He Viewed as Signs of Conspiracies Against Him, ‘Proyekt’ Says
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33. Moscow Court Declares Biblical Commandment ‘Do Not Kill’ a Violation of Russian Criminal Code, Some Russians are Saying
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34. Ingush Seven’s Zarifa Sautiyeva in Failing Health Needs Immediate Medical Care, Memorial Says
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35. Will Russian Consulate and Listening Post on Aaland Islands be Shuttered Now that Finland is in NATO?
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36. ‘Bombing Voronezh’ No Longer a Laughing Matter, Russians Say
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37. Non-Russian Republics among Leaders of Federal Subjects as Source of Professional Soldiers, Russian Defense Ministry Says
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38. Russian Elite Increasingly Dominated by People who Don’t Think Climate Change is an Immediate Challenge, Tananayev Says
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39. Regionalism in Russia will ‘Inevitably’ Intensify and Become More Radical the Longer Putin is in Place, Shtepa Says
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40. Majority of Russians Impatiently Waiting for Putin to Meet Berlusconi, Some Russians Say a Poll Shows
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41. Since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine, Senior Russian Officials have Taken to Drinking More to Relieve Stress, ‘Verstka’ Reports
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42. Russian Powers Pushing Anti-Gay Policies to Please Themselves Not the Population, Pozharsky Says
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43. Plunging Birthrate Prompts Ethnic Russian Regions to Close Maternity Hospitals
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44. Those who Say They Love Russia but Hate Its State are ‘Declaring War’ on Russia, Metropolitan Tikhon Says
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45. June 1990 Russian Sovereignty Declaration Made Possible Putin’s ‘Orwellian Anti-Utopia,’ Inozemtsev Says
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46. Regional and Ethnic Identities Reinforcing One Another, Komi Editor Says
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47. ‘Get Yourself Arrested and Save Russia’ as Criminals are Needed Not Only for the Military but for the Economy, Some Russians Say
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48. Bad Roads are the Broken Windows of Russian Life, Safronov Says
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49. Kremlin Continues to Try to Combine the Incompatible by Honoring Russians who Fought for Franco in Spain, Makarkin Says
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50. Non-Russians Must Recover Not Only Their Own Toponyms but Their Family Names as Well, Sakha Activist Says
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