Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / January 24, 2024

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / January 24, 2024

  1.     For More than a Century, Russian and Western Experts have Repeatedly Failed to Predict Russia’s Future, Shelin Says

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2.     No One Can Fix Frozen Pipes in Russia Because Those who Could are Fighting in Ukraine, Russians Say

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3.     Kazakhstan Army Now the Strongest in Central Asia

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4.     Kremlin Unwittingly Creating Veterans of Its War in Ukraine who are Likely to Prove More Dangerous than Afgantsy Were, Grachev Says

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5.     No Azerbaijani-Armenian Treaty will Resolve All Issues, Leaders and Experts Now Say

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6.     Russian Jail System’s Campaign against Muslims Hurting All Prisoners, Navalny Says

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7.     Patriarch Kirill’s Policies Could Lead to Eventual Rise of Alternative Orthodox Church in Russia Itself, Chapnin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/01/patriarch-kirills-policies-could-lead.html

8.     Moscow has Responded to Communal Services Collapse by Banning Media from Covering It, Russians Say

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9.     73 Percent of Russian POWs Just Returned were Convicted Criminals before Being Sent to Fight in Ukraine, Activist Group Says

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10.  Moscow Not Including ‘About 40 Percent’ of Combat Deaths in Official Data about Russian Population as a Whole, Raksha Says

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11.  Sakha Historian Urges Putin to Move Russia’s Capital to Irkutsk

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12.  Putin Won’t Visit Regions with Problems that have Been All Too Obviously Created by Him, Russian Regional Specialists Say

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13.  Neither Ankara Nor Baku Will Ever Give Up on a Zengezur Corridor, Senior Armenian Turcologist Says

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14.  World Politics has Returned to What It was for Centuries Before 1985-2000, Pastukhov Says

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15.  Some ‘Good’ News: Russians who’ve Never had Communal Services — about One in Four –Aren’t Affected by Their Collapse

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16.  Anti-Catholicism Spreading in Moscow and Minsk

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17.  Two Signal Developments Online: Russians Increasingly Using VPNs and Ukrainians the Ukrainian Language

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18.  Moscow May Finally be About to Confront Problems Drying Up of Russia’s Major Rivers Present

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19.  Ever More Russians Drinking Ever More Moonshine, Moscow Sociologists Say

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20.  Kremlin Propaganda Behind New Wave of Anti-Semitism in Russia, Poluektova-Krimer Says

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21.  Animated by Biblical Injunction ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill,’ Russian Christians Opposed to Putin’s War Being Persecuted by Their Own Denominations as well as Russian State

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22.  ‘Bombing Voronezh’ an Ancient Anecdote that has Become True, Russians Say

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23.  Duma Attack on Diasporas Directed Not Just at Foreigners but Also at Non-Russians Who Live Outside Borders of Republics within Russia, Iskhakov Says

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24.  Putin Making Russian Nation Ever Less Russian, Putting His Empire at Risk, Idel-Ural Activists Say

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25.  Gender Imbalance in South Caucasus has Risen since 1991 while Birthrates There have Fallen, New Study Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/01/gender-imbalance-in-south-caucasus-has.html

26.  Dugin’s Eurasianism Based on Same Mistaken Principles as His National Bolshevism, Tsipko Says

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27.  Russian Urban Legends about Ukrainians Ever More Hyperbolic and Both Threaten and are Exploited by Kremlin, ‘To Be Continued’ Portal Says

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28.  Critical Thinking is ‘Applied Russophobia’ and Must Be Stamped Out in Russian Universities, Moscow Professor Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/01/critical-thinking-is-applied.html

29.  Russians More Certain about Their Personal Futures than about Future of Their Country, New Survey Finds

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30.  Ukraine and West Can’t Count on Collapse of Russia’s Military-Industrial Sector as a Result of Sanctions, Inozemtsev Says

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31.  Russia’s Rural Schools Still have Unisex Outhouses, Russians Say

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32.  Circassians Abroad to Follow Kayseri Khase in Breaking with Moscow-Controlled ICA, Kochesoko Says

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33.  Belarus Government Massively Shifting Prisoners from One Prison Camp to Another – And Moscow Appears to Be Doing So as Well

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34.  Russian Wounded Overwhelming Hospitals in the Rear, Terrorizing Medical Staff and Compromising Ability of Citizens to Get Treatment, Doctor Says

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35.  Bashkir Protests Shift from Environmental Issues to Ever More Radical Political Ones

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36.  Petersburg Politics Head Urges Case-by-Case Assessment of Protests in Non-Russian Republics But Admits Moscow has No Easy Answer to Such Actions

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37.  Moscow Patriarch’s Policies Making ‘Estonian Compromise’ Impossible There and Elsewhere

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38.  One in Five Russian Workers Now Self-Employed, Reducing Government’s Tax Revenues and Control over Population, Analysts Suggest

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39.  Don’t Ask a Man His Income, a Woman Her Age or a Russian Patriot about His Residence Permit in the West, Russians Say

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40.  ‘Hybrid’ Protest in Bashkortostan Far Greater Threat to Kremlin than All Ant-War Actions Taken Together, Pastukhov Says

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41.  West Must Prepared for ‘Fragmentation of Russia,’ Kyiv Official Says; but National Activist Suggests that May Not Happen Immediately  

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42.  Kremlin May Soon have ‘No Alternative to Creation of “Reserve Capital” in Siberia,’ Marzhetsky Says

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43.  Russia’s War in Ukraine ‘Next Phase of Continuing Disintegration of the Soviet Empire,’ Pastukhov Says

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44.  Russians Suffering from Twice as Many Communal Services Breakdowns This Year than Last, Moscow Acknowledges windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/01/russians-suffering-from-twice-as-many.html

45.  Immigrants Must be Ready to Assimilate to Russian Nation Or They Shouldn’t Be Allowed In, Moscow Commentator Says

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46.  Moscow’s Repression Can Drive Nationalism Underground But Not Eliminate It, Makarkin Says

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47.  Neither North Caucasus Republics nor Their Peoples Doing Enough to Defend Their Languages against Moscow’s Attacks, Four Kabardino-Balkar Scholars Say

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48.  North Caucasians Suffering Fewer Combat Losses Now than at Start of the War in Ukraine

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49.  Russia Didn’t Invade Ukraine Because of What Russia has Always Been but Because of What It Became over the Last 30 Years, Zharkov Says

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50.  Russians have Adapted to Conflict in Ukraine at Current Level of Intensity and Their Desire for Change has Disappeared, VTsIOM Head Says

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