Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / March 15, 2024
1. Russian Firms Now Selling Toy Weapons so Youngsters will Learn about War, Russians Say, But Now Yet Toy Corpses windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/russian-firms-now-selling-toy-weapons.html
2. Putin has Long Believed Ethnic Russians Must Assimilate Others or Put Their Own Nation at Risk of Decline or Death, Sidorov Says
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3. Azerbaijanis, Armenians Commemorate Two Horrific Tragedies of Their War
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4. Putin’s Future Threatened by His Most Loyal Followers, Gallyamov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/putins-future-threatened-by-his-most.html
5. Russia’s Population Decline Not Sufficient to Stop Putin’s Aggression, Russian Demographer Speaking Anonymously Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/russias-population-decline-not.html
6. Moscow Orders Russian Universities to Train Psychologists in Traditional Values
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7. KPRF Now has Special Staff for Organizing Protests
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8. On His Telegram Channel, Kadyrov Drops Putin’s Reference to Jews as Having fought for Russia
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9. Putin’s Extensive Imperialism Leading Russia into a Dead End, El Murid Says; Only an Intensive Nation State Approach Can Save It
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10. ‘Water Surplus’ Kyrgyzstan Increasingly No Longer Is
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11. Russian Liberal Opposition Moves Closer to the Views of Nationalists and Regionalists
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12. Ethnic Germans Step Up Efforts to Leave Russia Because of War in Ukraine But Find It Almost Impossible to Emigrate to Germany
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13. Putin has Been Quietly Appointing Deputy Heads in State Institutions to be Responsible for Promoting Patriotism
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14. As Interest in and Acts of Desertion from Russian Army in Ukraine Go Up, Military and FSB are Tightening Controls to Make Flight More Difficult
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15. Russia has Buried Its Hero because It Can’t Yet Bury Its Tyrant, Some Say
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16. Non-Russians Increasingly Uniting against Russian Imperialism
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17. Predominantly Ethnic Russian Regions Leading Country’s Demographic Collapse, Rosstat Says
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18. Having Offended Tatars in His Republic in the Past, Bashkortostan Head Now Seeking Their Support
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19. Not All Russian Judges Allowing Convicts to Avoid Serving Time in Order to Fight in Ukraine, ‘Verstka’ Investigation Finds
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20. Russia’s Tragedy is that It Became an Empire Before It Became a Nation, Making Retention of Territory Central to Its Identity, Inozemtsev Says
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21. Future Waves of Immigration to Russia Seen Coming from Africa and India
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22. Astrologers Advise Russians Not to Give in to Calm but Remain Panic-Stricken
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23. Chechen Issue in Daghestan Heats Up, Threatening New Conflict There and with Grozny
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24. Gagauz Leaders Ask Moscow for Support But Get Little Beyond Verbal Reassurances
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25. Moscow Set to Delay Micro-Census from 2026 to 2028 to Save Money for War and Possibly to Hide Embarrassing Ethnic Data
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26. Moscow Using Slave Labor from North Korea in the Russian Far East windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/moscow-using-slave-labor-from-north.html
27. ‘A Cold Civil War’ Now Taking Place in Russia, Pastukhov Says
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28. Russians Spent More than 20 Billion US Dollars on Fortune Tellers Last Year But Moscow Not Ready to Rein in this Business Sector
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29. Far More Russians are Waiting to Attend Putin’s Funeral than Actually Went to Navalny’s
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30. Muscovites Back Putin and His War More Strongly than Do Those in the Rest of Russia, Gudkov Says
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31. Most Russians Still Say They are Free Because They Define Freedom as ‘Freedom From’ rather than ‘Freedom For,’ Gudkov Says
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32. By Claiming War was, ‘Inevitable’ and ‘Forced on Russia,’ Putin has Won Over Many who Originally Opposed It, Zhuravlyev Says
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33. Even Local Elections Can Lead to Rise of Officials Ready to Challenge Moscow, Experts Say
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34. Moscow Patriarchate Faces Mounting Problems in All Three Countries of South Caucasus
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35. Romanian Orthodox Church Getting More Involved in Ukraine, Creating Both Opportunities and Problems for Moscow
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36. Russia’s Cargo Cult Approach to the West in 1990s Behind Kremlin Paranoia Now, ‘To Be Continued’ Portal Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/03/russias-cargo-cult-approach-to-west-in.html
37. In Putin’s Russia, Language Alone Defines Nationality, Komi State Council Deputy Says
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38. Ingush Militants Seek ‘Escape from Russian Occupation,’ ILA Member Says
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39. Muslim Community in Lithuania has Grown from 3,000 a Few Years Ago to More than 15,000 Now
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40. As at End of Soviet Times, Moscow Triggering Conflicts inside RF to Heighten Western Fears about Russia’s Disintegration, Fyodorov Says
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41. Laughter Brought Down the USSR and Now Threatens Putin, Moskovsky Says
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42. Tatars Stress Turkic and Muslim Background of Orenburg Residents Moscow Counts as Russians
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43. Even Russians who Back the Kremlin Now Can Use the Internet Because Its Pro-Kremlin Sector is So Large, Makarkin Says
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44. Whoever Lives Well in Russia Now will Do Very Well in Hell, Some Russians Say
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45. Moscow and Makhachkala Risk Violence Regardless of Whether They Restore a Chechen District or Not
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46. Moscow to Recreate Nationalities Ministry Soon to Increase Attention to Ethnic Issues and Block Western Efforts to Exploit Them, Semigin Says
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47. Sparta-Style Militarization May Help Putin Stay in Power but It will Destroy Russia’s Future, Bobrik Says
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48. That Former Soviet Republics were ‘Once Together’ Doesn’t Mean They Still Are or That Their Common Past is a Sufficient Basis Now for Policy, Rakeda Says
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49. If Migrant Workers come to Russia from Asia and Africa, They will Bring Illnesses that Will Overwhelm Country’s Healthcare System, Moscow Experts Say
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50. West Mistakenly Thinks Russia in Terminal Decline While Moscow Elites Even More Wrongly Believe They can Restore Russia’s Superpower Status, Pastukhov Says
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