Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 17, 2023        

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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