Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / August 12, 2023
1. All But Three Non-Russian Languages in Russian Federation have Fewer Speakers Now than They did when Putin Came to Power, ‘To Be Exact’ Reports
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2. Russian Population after Putin Likely to Be ‘Godless’ But with Large Protestant Denominations, Savvin Says
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3. Fewer than 75 Percent of People in Russian Federation are Ethnic Russians, ‘Sovetskaya Rossiya’ Reports
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4. Costs of Repair, Modernization and Manning Force Moscow to Scrap Largest Nuclear-Powered Naval Ships
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5. Debate about Civic versus Ethnic Nationhood Intensifies in Kazakhstan
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6. Kremlin’s Ideology Far More Coherent than Many Assume, Suslov Says
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7. Middle-Aged Russians Fear Their Children are Being Corrupted by the Internet and Their Parents by Television
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8. When Non-Russians Speak Their Own Languages, They Back Ukraine; but When They Speak Russian, They Support Putin’s War, Komi Activist Says
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9. Russians Fear Crime has Risen Since War Began but Real Explosion will Occur when War Ends, Moscow Experts Say
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10. Police Raids on Moscow Mosques Spark Protests by Muslims, North Caucasus Leaders and Human Rights Activists
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11. Lustration May be Risky in Russia Immediately after Putin but Ensuring Russians Learn the Truth about Their Past is Essential, Nadporozhky Says
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12. More than 25,000 Russians Sought Political Asylum in Europe or the US in 2022 But Fewer than Half Received That Status, Statistics Show
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13. Wagner PMC Soldiers Back from Ukraine Clash with National Guard in Tyva
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14. For Russians, Liberalism isn’t Antithetical to Imperialism in Part Because of Their Belief in the Universalistic Nature of Their Culture, Kalinin Says
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15. Kremlin May Have Its Reasons to Create Regional Units, But Federation Subjects who Form Them are Thinking Longer Term, Panyushkin Says
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16. Russians Successfully Completing Military Service are to Be Rewarded with a New Term in the Army, Russians Say
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17. Russians Turning Away from Television and toward Telegram Channels for News, Creating Serious Problem for the Kremlin, Pertsev Says
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18. Why Russian Countryside is Dying: Karelian Village Lacks Potable Water, Aspirin, Telephones or ATMs – And Won’t Be Getting Them
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19. Astana’s Latinization Plans Seen Behind Rise in Kazakhs Studying in Russian-Language Schools
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20. Water-Short Kazakhstan Becoming Ever More Dependent on Flows from Neighboring Countries
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21. Putin Finds African Allies in His Campaign to Stay in Office Forever, Russians Say
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22. Belarusian Opposition Creates ‘Parallel State’ in Emigration
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23. Pandemic, Ukrainian War Push Up Number of Slaves in Russia to ‘Almost Two Million,’ Walk Free Says
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24. Moscow Building Its Own Colonial Empire in Africa under Anti-Colonial Slogans, Galko Says
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25. Fertility Rate in Moscow Barely One-Third of Replacement Level, Zakotyansky Says
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26. Non-Russians Must be Loyal Not Just to Russian State but to Russian Nation, Akopov Says
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27. Prigozhin Mutiny Showed Putin Dictatorship Not Threatened by Coup or Protest, Turchenko Says
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28. Offers of Free Land Not Attracting People to Russian Far East and are Unlikely to Do So Anywhere
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29. Banning Abortion will Please Russian Conservatives but Do Nothing to Help Country’s Demographic Problems
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30. Destruction of Russia’s Linguistic Diversity Neither Natural nor Desirable, Ilinov Says
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31. Have Ukrainians Taken Tver? Or is Russia Now Bombing Itself? Russians Ask
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32. Japan, Ukraine, Zeleny Klin and the Future of Russian Statehood East of the Urals
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33. Last Steps May Be the Hardest: Circassians on Brink of Achieving Independence
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34. Putin Regime Becoming ‘Dictatorship of Fear’ but Retains Elements of ‘Dictatorship of Deception,’ New Book Says
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35. United Russia Decides Putin’s War in Ukraine Not a Winning Formula for Upcoming Elections
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36. Now that War in Ukraine has become an End in Itself, Putin Seeks to Destroy Russians’ Love of Life, Nemtsev Says
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37. Muscovites Today ‘New Historical Community’ on Model of Failed Effort to Form Soviet People, Basovskaya Says
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38. Once Putin Leaves, FSB Commands in Regions and Republics will Act as Communist Apparatuses Did in Union Republics in 1991, Khmelnitsky Says
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39. Best Way for Russians Lost in Woods to Be Found is to Criticize Putin; Then, Russians Say, the Police will Immediately Show Up
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40. Increasing Censorship and Propaganda Highlight Putin Regime’s Weakness Not Its Strength, Nadporozhsky Says
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41. Popularity of Stalin Growing among Russian Youth Because of His Achievements and Promotion of Social Mobility, Fursov Says
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42. More than Half of Those who have Set Fire to Draft Offices are Over 50 and Two-Thirds are Women, ‘Verstka’ Reports
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43. Continued Shrinking of Russia’s ‘Great Russian Core’ Highlighted in Latest Census Results
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44. Putin Animated by Soviet Past rather than by Russian National Interests, Khazanov-Pashkovsky Says
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45. Next Russian Revolution Likely to Begin on the Periphery Rather than in the Capitals, Gallyamov Says
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46. By More than Two to One, Petersburgers Oppose Closure of Finnish Consulate There
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47. Russia’s Criminal War in Ukraine Nonetheless Part of an Effort to Address Real Historical Challenges that Won’t Disappear when Putin Goes, Pastukhov Says
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48. Estonia’s Narva ‘Ideal Place for Rebirth of Ingrian Traditions,’ Kuznetsova Says
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49. Half of Russians who Commit Crimes can Count on Avoiding Being Caught, Official Statistics Show
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50. Moscow ‘Massively Recruiting’ Women Prisoners to Fight in Ukraine, ‘Russian Behind Bars’ Activist Says
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