Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / August 22, 2024
1. Kremlin has Slowed Youtube Because It can’t Slow Ukrainian Attack in Kursk, Russians Say
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/kremlin-has-slowed-youtube-because-it.html
2. Not One of the Tajiks Moscow Expelled in First Half of 2024 an Extremist, Dushanbe Says
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3. Might Declaration of a Kursk Peoples Republic Lead to the Reformatting of Russia? ‘Region.Expert’ Asks
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4. Belarus Now has 55 Times More Political Prisoners than It Did in 2020, ‘Vyasna’ Center Says
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5. Russia’s Prison Population Rapidly Aging and Its Jailors are Profiting, ‘Cherta’ Says
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6. Growing Chinese Involvement in Russian North Threatens Numerically Small Peoples There, Berezhkov Says
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7. Moscow Not Only Repressing Non-Russian Organizations but Also Helping Businesses to Capture and Subvert Them, Major New Study Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/moscow-not-only-repressing-non-russian.html
8. Fissiparousness of Russians in Emigration Yet Another Sign of Weakness of Ethnic Russian Identity
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9. Tajiks are Leaving Russia but Almost as Many are Going There in Their Place, Dushanbe Says
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10. The Real Kursk Question: Why Aren’t Russians Demanding War to Drive Ukrainian Forces Out?
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11. ‘Russian Courts Now Agree with Putin that “Russia has No Borders,’” Shtepa Says
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12. Hatred of All against All Holds Russia’s ‘Totalitarian Society’ Together and Keeps Putin in Power, Shusharin Says
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13. Russian Interior Ministry Seeks New Law to Punish Regional Officials who Don’t Bring Enough Extremism Charges windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/russian-interior-ministry-seeks-new-law.html
14. In the Past, Kremlin’s Governors School Didn’t Offer Courses on Handling Crises But Now that Is Likely to Change, Danilov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/in-past-kremlins-governors-school-didnt.html
15. Broad Russian Support for Repression at Home and Aggression Abroad Result of Long-Term Social Trends and Won’t Change Instantly When Putin Leaves the Scene, Shusharin Says
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16. Long Authoritarian Rule of Buryat Buddhist Leader Opened the Way for Rise of Alternative One in Moscow, Kulagin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/long-authoritarian-rule-of-buryat.html
17. Panic over Ukrainian Advance in Kursk Spreading among Russian Elite But Its Members Dismiss Possibility of Peace Talks, ‘Vyorstka’ Says
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18. For First Time Ever, Number of Divorces in Russia Exceeds Number of Marriages
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19. If Russia Loses Kursk Oblast Even for a Time, Food Prices will Rise across Russia, ‘Krizis-Kopylka’ Says
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20. Russia’s Smaller Cities Can Be Saved Only if Businesses Reopen and Government Invests in Infrastructure, ‘PolitSovyet’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/russias-smaller-cities-can-be-saved.html
21. Two-Thirds of Men Volunteering in Moscow to Fight in Ukraine aren’t Residents of the Capital, ‘Vyorstka’ Investigation Concludes windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/two-thirds-of-men-volunteering-in.html
22. With Kursk, Putin’s Orwellian Newspeak has Become ‘Not Just Inadequate but Dangerous,’ Inozemtsev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/with-kursk-putins-orwellian-newspeak.html
23. Newly Elevated Naval Collegium to Ensure Russia Remains a Great Naval Power Capable of Rebuffing the West, Patrushev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/newly-elevated-naval-collegium-to.html
24. Moscow Must Suppress Both Wahhabism and Salafism in Dagestan and Crimea or It will Face Expanded Terrorist Threats, Bortnikov Suggests
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25. Apathetic Response of Russian People to Ukrainian Advance into Kursk Oblast May Be What Kremlin Wants But Won’t Help It Later, Starovoitov Says
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26. Putin’s War in Ukraine Hitting Russia’s Civilian Air Travel Especially Hard in Summer Months
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27. Kremlin Appears to Be More Open to Promoting Locals Rather than Outsiders to Head Russian Regions, Toth Czifra Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/kremlin-appears-to-be-more-open-to.html
28. Russians Betraying Both Christianity and the Russian Tradition by Failing to Condemn Stalinism, Tsipko Says
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29. Russians’ Interest in Islam Worrying Some Close to Moscow Patriarchate
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30. For Putin but Not for Other Russians, Ukraine’s Donbass is More Important than Russia’s Kursk Region, Gallyamov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/for-putin-but-not-for-other-russians.html
31. Putin’s Relationship with the Russian People One of Mutual Bribery, El Murid Says
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32. Kremlin Working to Calm Elites and Masses Not only in Kursk Oblast But in Other Regions, Mukhin Says
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33. Russians have a State but Kursk Shows They Don’t have a Country, Gozman Says
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34. Syria Only Russian Ally Even Rhetorically Backing Moscow against Ukraine in Kursk
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35. Federal Subjects Say Moscow Must Give Them More Money if They are to Give Recruitment Bonuses Putin Wants Them to Pay windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/russias-federal-subjects-say-moscow.html
36. If Ukraine can Hold Kursk for Two to Three Months, That will Mark ‘a Strategic Turning Point’ in Relations between Ukraine and Moscow, Shulipa Says
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37. Russian Officials Want to Ban Computer Game on Czechoslovak Legion in Russia’s Civil War
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38. Russian Empire Set to Collapse as Soviet One Did in 1991, Suddenly, Unexpectedly and over Western Opposition, Pekar Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/russian-empire-now-set-to-collapse-as.html
39. Putin’s Views Notwithstanding, Russians Nostalgic for USSR Not Because It was an Empire but Because It Provided Better Social Supports, Gallyamov Says
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/putins-views-notwithstanding-russians.html
40. Reaction to Kursk Shows that ‘Mentally, Russia has Already Disintegrated,’ Tatar Activist Says
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41. Putin’s War in Ukraine Pushing Up Serious Crime across Russia’s South
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42. Moscow Planning New Trans-Caucasus Rail Line in Response to Western Efforts to Bypass Russia But Faces Serious Obstacles windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/moscow-planning-new-trans-caucasus-rail.html
43. Putin’s Destruction of Opposition a Pyrrhic Victory Just Like Jaruzelski’s Imposition of Martial Law in Poland, Gallyamov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/putins-destruction-of-opposition.html
44. Unsurprisingly, Putin and His Media Ignore Anniversary of August 1991 Coup Attempt, Malgin Says
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45. Wives of Russian Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Told to Always Speak Quietly to Their Husbands and Never Approach Them from Behind
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46. ‘Moscow Times’ Writer Launches First-Ever English-Language Weekly Newsletter on Non-Russians in Russian Federation windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/moscow-times-writer-launches-first-ever.html
47. Blood Feuds Declining in North Caucasus as Society Changes, Religion Increases, and People Fear Their Nations will Disappear, Historian Says
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48. Moscow’s Formal Exit from CoE Convention on Ethnic Minorities Likely Presages Even More Russian Oppression of These Groups, Kulayeva Says
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49. Recent Poll in Belgorod, a Russian Oblast Much Like Kursk, Offers Clues about Local Responses to Ukrainian Actions windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/recent-poll-in-belgorod-russian-oblast.html
50. 93 Percent of Kalmykia Residents Don’t have Reliable Access to Potable Water Supplies
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