Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / May 11, 2024
1. Two Weeks Before Crocus City Attack, Tajikistan’s President Expressed Concern about Involvement in Terrorist Actions Abroad and at Home
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2. Moscow Increasingly Worried about Rise of Roman Catholicism in Belarus windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/moscow-increasingly-worried-about-rise.html
3. The Caspian Sea on Its Way to Becoming a Desert, Kazakh Political Scientist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-caspian-sea-on-its-way-to-becoming.html
4. Kremlin’s Refusal to Break with Soviet Identity has Led to War and Will Lead to Russia’s Collapse, Eppl Says
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5. Secret Poll Results on Russian Attitudes toward Migrants have Kremlin Worried, ‘Verstka’ Says
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6. Media Stories Promoting Ethnic and Religious Divisions in Russia have Grown by Orders of Magnitude Since Launch of Expanded War in Ukraine, FADN’s Bulatov Says
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7. Moscow May Restart Regional Amalgamation Effort but Unlikely to Touch North Caucasus, Experts Say
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8. Russian Justice Ministry Calls for Declaring Non-Existent ‘Anti-Russian Separatist Movement’ an ‘Extremist’ Organization
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9. Moscow Increases Quotas for Immigrant Workers Despite Demands by Many Russians that They Be Cut
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10. Poorer Federal Subjects Forced to Use Compulsion Not Cash to Meet Russian Military Quotas
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11. Moscow Patriarchate’s Moves against Anti-War Priests Undermining the ROC MP and Opening the Way for Renewal of Orthodoxy in Russia, Soldatov Says
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12. Problems in Russian Logistical Networks Boosting Regional Businesses windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/problems-in-russian-logistical-networks.html
13. Despite Fears, Putin hasn’t Restored Soviet-Style Media Isolation for Russians, Shelin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/despite-fears-putin-hasnt-restored.html
14. In Declaring Non-Existent Anti-Russian Separatist Movement ‘Extremist,’ Kremlin Opens the Door to Broad Range of Repression, Legal Experts Say
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15. While Kremlin Focuses Ukraine, Rest of Post-Soviet Space ‘Disappearing Before Our Eyes,’ Influential Telegram Channel Says
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16. ‘Kazakh Russian-Speaking Poles from Ukraine’ Struggle with Multiple Identities in Present-Day Kazakhstan
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17. Behavior of Russian Occupiers in Ukraine Recalls ‘Dark Times of Stalin Repressions,’ Nevzlin Says
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18. With New Naval and Air Exercises, Azerbaijan Highlights Its Growing Power on the Caspian – and Russia’s Decline There and across the Region
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19. Circassian Flag Day Highlights a National Unity Russians have Never Been Able to Break windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/circassian-flag-day-highlights-national.html
20. Islam Far More Important for Russia’s Muslims than Christianity is for Russia’s Orthodox, Levada Survey Finds
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21. ‘Criticism of the Russian Government has Fallen but Desire for a Renewed One Exists,’ Fedorov Says
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22. Fewer than Nine Percent of Pupils in Mari El Now Studying in National Language windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/fewer-than-nine-percent-of-pupils-in.html
23. Moscow Expanding Contacts Between Russian Regions and Belarusian Ones, Raising Specter of a Donbass Scenario
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24. Putin Restoring Yet Another Feature of Soviet Past: The Promotion of Showy Giant Projects over Smaller Ones that could Help More Russians
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25. New Attacks on Police in North Caucasus Less about ISIS and More about Protests Against the Kremlin, Analysts Say
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26. ‘Two Worlds’ – Cities in Russia and Kazakhstan Face Common Flooding but Respond in Completely Different Ways
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27. Lukashenka Intensifying Repression against Belarusians at Home and Abroad, Korshunov Says
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28. Decolonization won’t Happen Unless Non-Russian Republics View Russian Oblasts and Krays as Fellow Victims of Moscow and thus Allies in This Cause, Shtepa Says
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29. Moscow Declares Committee of Ingush Independence ‘Undesirable Organization’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscow-declares-committee-of-ingush.html
30. Putin Homogenizing Even Hymns of Russia’s Federal Subjects, ‘NeMoskva’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/putin-homogenizing-even-hymns-of.html
31. Moscow’s ‘Chaotic’ Response to Migration Crisis Fragmenting Russian Political System Rodin Says
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32. Dugin Not ‘Conservative Russian Traditionalist’ He and Others Insist He Is, Pushchayev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/dugin-not-conservative-russian.html
33. Moscow Now Set to Selectively Enlarge Municipalities, Experts Predict windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/moscow-now-set-to-selectively-enlarge.html
34. Two Senior Armenian Cartographers Say 1991 Soviet Borders Were Illegitimate windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/two-senior-armenian-cartographers-say.html
35. No Real Evidence for Notion that a KGB Conspiracy Brought Putin to Power, Mitrokhin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/no-real-evidence-for-notion-that-kgb.html
36. Tehran wants to Expand Its Influence in Central Asia and Use Tajikistan to Help It Do So, Tomsk Scholar Says
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37. To Form Dnepr River Flotilla, Moscow Taking Units and Equipment from Caspian Flotilla, Black Sea Fleet and Baltic Fleet
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38. ‘Cold Schism’ in Orthodox World Likely to Become ‘Hot’ if Moscow Church Continues to Back Kremlin and Its War at Home and Abroad, Chapnin Says
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39. Russians Opposed to War in Ukraine have Options as Putin Marks Victory Day, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says
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40. Barring a Defeat in Ukraine, Putin isn’t Going to Change Course or Be Overthrown, Shelin Says
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41. After Two Years of Putin’s War, Desertions among Buryats More than Triple windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/after-two-years-of-putins-war.html
42. Russia has Removed Its Guards from Armenian-Azerbaijani Border but Not from Armenia’s Borders with Iran and Turkey, Kremlin Says
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43. Measles, Whooping Cough and Flu Now at Record Levels in Russia, ‘To Be Precise’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/measles-whooping-cough-and-flu-now-at.html
44. Kyiv Must Reintegrate Donbass as a Distinctive Region or Ukraine will Remain Vulnerable to Moscow’s Subversion, Kuromiya Says
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45. Putin Declares Ethnic Russians ‘State-Forming People’ of His Country windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/putin-declares-ethnic-russians-state.html
46. Soviet Experience Shows Forming Military Units on an Ethnic Basis Both Ineffective and Dangerous, Krutikov Says
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47. New Dawn Party Attracts Some Non-Russians but Sparks Skepticism among Others windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/new-dawn-party-attracts-some-non.html
48. Moscow Arresting Ever More Imaginary ‘Traitors’ but Isn’t Charging Real Ones with that Crime, Pavlov Says
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49. Russians Increasingly View Victory Day Not as a People’s Holiday but as an Official Action windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/05/russians-increasingly-view-victory-day.html
50. Even If Russians had More Children, That Wouldn’t Stop Russia’s Demographic Decline, Academy of Sciences Study Concludes
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