Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 23, 2023
1. Putin Turned Out to Be an Effective Dictator but Not an Effective State Builder, Matveyev Says
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2. Putin Says Cassette Bombs from US Threaten Russian Soldiers who are Peacefully Killing Ukrainians, Russians Say
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3. Moscow Will Now Fight Ghettos in Russian Cities, Places It has Long Denied Even Exist
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4. Criminality of ‘Wild 1990s’ Returning, Expanding and Taking New Forms, ‘Sovershenno-Sekretno’ Says
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5. Putin Regime Transforming Death into an Economically Rational Choice, Inozemtsev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/
6. Like Condoms, Presidents Must be Changed in a Timely Fashion or There will be Problems, Russians Say
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7. Captive Nations Week Marked for First Time Marked in Ukraine
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8. In the End, Prigozhin Reached the Kremlin Exactly How and When He Wanted, Russians Say
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9. Putin hasn’t Managed to Get Ukraine into NATO Yet but He’s Made Its Future Entry Easier, Russians Say
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10. Moscow Slams Shut Russia’s Window on Europe by Closing Finnish Consulate in St. Petersburg but that Could Backfire on the New Muscovy, Shtepa Says
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11. Russia’s Administrative Collapse More Worrisome Prospect than Even a Military Defeat, El Murid Says
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12. Tsikhanouskaya Urges NATO to Cooperate with Democratic Belarus Instead of Waiting for the Collapse of Lukashenka Regime
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13. Moscow’s Need for Ships Growing Across the Board but Its Capacity to Buy or Build Them Isn’t
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14. In a Russian City of 50,000, Courts Find Someone Not Guilty Only Once Every Three Years, Statistics Show
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15. ‘Dismantling the Russian Empire will Stop Wars, Not Provoke Them,’ Sokolov Says
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16. Moscow’s Propaganda in Non-Russian Languages about Ukrainian War Backfiring, Baranova Says
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17. Northern Sections of Caspian Sea Rapidly Drying Up, Satellite Photos Show
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18. Putin has Broad Support among Russians because He Shares Values of ‘Deep People’ He is Part of and So Often Refers To, Skripov Says
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19. When an Ethnic Russian Commits a Crime, Media Ignore His Nationality But when a Non-Russian Does, the Media Focuses on That Alone, Komi Editor Says
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20. For First Time since 1991, Fewer People Moved from Russia to Kazakhstan than from Kazakhstan to Russia, Astana Says
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21. Many Non-Russian Republics are Becoming More Mono-Ethnic, Tishkov Warns
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22. Russian Separatist Attitudes Exist in Northern Kazakhstan But They Aren’t Dominant, Local Editor Says
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23. Russia is Like a Dinosaur: It has a Huge Body but a Tiny Brain that Keeps It from Competing with Other Countries, Some of Its Residents Say
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24. Russia may Hold Future Censuses Only Every 20 Years and Base Them on Official Sources instead of Surveys, Iskhakov Says
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25. Russia’s Nationality Agency Focuses Largely on Numerically Small Peoples
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26. Moscow Losing Its Predominant Role in Negotiations on Karabakh Issue, Markedonov Says
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27. Putin Admires Beria, One of Stalin’s Most Notorious Henchmen, Postnov Says
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28. Moscow Opens Internal Russian Waterways to Kazakhstani and Azerbaijani Shipping
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29. When Russian Army Faces Defeat, It First Looks for Traitors and then Turns on Political Leaders, El Murid Says
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30. Putin’s Effort to Use Ukrainian War to Weaken Non-Russians at Home Backfiring, Mavrov Says
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31. Many Confuse Weakening of States in the Post-Soviet Countries with Democratization, Snegovaya Says
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32. Putin Launched Ukrainian War to Block Russia’s Disintegration but Unwittingly has Accelerated that Process, Guseynov Says
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33. Siltification of Northern Caspian Leading to Re-Routing of East-West and North-South Trade in Central Asia
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34. Growing Central Asian Population Means Not Only Expansion of Existing Cities but Creation of New Ones
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35. Russians Adopting Healthy Lifestyles Not Trying to Live to 100 but Only to Outlive Putin
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36. Recent Emigres from Russia Remain in Close Contact with Their Compatriots at Home, New Study Finds
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37. Another Sign of an Approaching Revolution? Increasing Russian Interest in Esoterica
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38. Russian Liberals and Non-Russian Nationalists Clash Not Only in Emigration but Inside Russia
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39. Moscow Says It’s Easier to Solve Demographic Problems by Boosting Birthrate rather than Reducing Male Mortality by Exiting Hot Spots, Russians Say
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40. Kazakhstan Residents Increasingly Fear Russia will Invade Their Country, ‘Demoscope’ Polls Find
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41. Opposition to Russianization and Russification in Belarus Remains Widespread in Minsk, Moscow Commentator Says
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42. 80 Percent of Belarusians Remain Opposed to Use of Their Army in Ukraine, New Poll Finds
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43. For Russians, Putin has Gone from Macho Man to Grandfather but is Trying to Redefine the Latter Term, Turkova Says
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44. German and Dutch Specialists Say Caspian Sea’s Water Level will Fall 9 to 18 Meters by 2100 but Russian Ones Say It will Rise Again by 2030
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45. The Surest Way to Get a Meeting with Putin is to Organize a Mutiny, Russians Say
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46. War in Ukraine Pushing North Caucasians from Interest in Federalism to Backing Independence, Yevloyeva Says
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47. Russia Being ‘Occupied’ by Migrant Workers and Must Save Itself by Leaving the CIS, Vetoshkin Says
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48. Russian Regions Failing to Meet Quotas for Volunteers to Serve as Professional Soldiers, ‘NeMoskva’ Reports
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49. Tatar who Emigrated to France Uses Cartoons to Tell How She Became More Tatar as a Result
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50. Russians See Their Pay Fall as They Approach Pension Age, Often to Levels Close to Those at the Start of Their Careers, New HSE Study Finds
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