Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / October 19, 2024
1. If Kyiv Can Force Moscow to Pursue Total Mobilization, Russia will Collapse and Ukraine will Win the War, Eidman Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/if-kyiv-can-force-moscow-to-pursue.html
2. Nations in the Russian Federation who Want Independence Must Seek and Be Allowed a Velvet Divorce, Inozemtsev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/nations-in-russian-federation-who-want.html
3. Russian Opposition Tearing Itself Apart rather than Focusing on Common Enemy, Gozman Says
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4. Moscow isn’t Russifying Occupied Ukrainian Territories but ‘De-Europeanizing’ Them, Yakovenko Says
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5. A Putin Declaration of Victory in Ukraine will Entail Even Worse Consequences for Russia than His Decision to Invade It, Chernyshov Says
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6. Threat of North Ossetian Annexation of Ingush Territory, Despite being Denied, May Yet Lead to Protests and Even a War windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/threat-of-north-ossetian-annexation-of.html
7. If Ukraine in ‘an Invented Country,’ So Too is Russian Federation, SerpomPo Telegram Channel Says
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8. Yerevan to Assume Responsibility for Guarding Armenia’s Borders with Iran and Turkey
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9. Yashin Says New Federation Treaty Must Give Regions and Republics Right to Leave Doubts Any ‘Really Want to Separate’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/yashin-says-new-federation-treaty-must.html
10. Siberian Oblastnik Movement Lasted Long After 1917 Both Abroad and Even Inside USSR
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11. Ankara Directs Turkish Schools to Again Call Central Asia Turkistan, Sending Shockwaves Across that Region and Beyond windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/ankara-directs-turkish-schools-to-again.html
12. Kremlin Wants Central Asians who’ve Taken Russian Citizenship to Fight in Ukraine but Some Fear Such People will Turn Their Guns on Russians
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13. Chechnya Seeks to Rein In Russian Community Organization and Moscow’s Migrantophobia
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14. Moscow Wants to Ban Russophobia in Russia and Abroad But isn’t Seeking to Ban Analogous Attitudes and Attacks on Country’s Non-Russians
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15. Moscow Filling Ranks of Its Invasion Force in Ukraine with Ever Older Men, Many in Their 40s and 50s and Some as Old as Their 70s windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/moscow-filling-ranks-of-its-invasion.html
16. Nearly Half of All Russians Now Say that Putin’s War in Ukraine has Brought More Harm than Good, Levada Center Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/nearly-half-of-all-russians-now-say.html
17. ‘Banal Corruption’ Reason Dagestan Refuses to Restore Chechen District There, Russian Investigative Committee Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/banal-corruption-reason-dagestan.html
18. Russia Running Out of Cemeteries, Duma Deputies Complain
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19. Like Russian Liberals, Russian Regionalists Failing to Focus on ‘Bridge’ between Current Realities and Dreams about the Future, Shtepa Says
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20. Despite Increased Deaths among Young Men, Live Expectancy Figure for Russians Rose in 2023 because Older People who Survived Covid Pandemic Living Longer, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says
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21. Moscow Sets Up ‘Mayors’ School’ Modeled on Russian Governors’ School
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22. Uzbekistan Now Rehabilitating Almost Anyone Repressed by Soviet State as Long as They Opposed Russia and Russians, Priymak Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/uzbekistan-now-rehabilitating-almost.html
23. Putin’s GULAG Many Times Smaller than Stalin’s but Increasingly Resembles Its Predecessor, Experts Say
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24. Second Generation Problem Hitting Chechen Diaspora in Europe
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25. As Putin Cult Grows, His Regime Moving from Bans Alone to Prescriptions as Well, Shelin Says
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26. Muslims in Christian Turkic Republic of Chuvashia Need Larger Mosque windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/muslims-in-christian-turkic-republic-of.html
27. Outrage Spreads about Gazprom Call for Writing Off Smaller Russian Cities
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28. Putin’s Promise to Make Veterans New Political Elite Not Working Now But Predicted to Cause Serious Problems Later, ‘Vyorstka’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/putins-promise-to-make-veterans-new.html
29. Protest Against Construction of New Mosque in Perm Oblast Expands from Typical NIMBY Action to Radical Russian Nationalist Move windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/protest-against-construction-of-new.html
30. In Tatarstan, Ethnic Russian Villages Dying Out Far More Rapidly than Ethnic Tatar Ones, Tatar who’s Photographed Many of Them Says
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31. What has Happened in Azerbaijan Since Karabakh Recovered Shows What Would Happen in Russia if Putin Wins in Ukraine, Baku Blogger Says
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32. Ever More Belarusians Using Their National Language Among Themselves Because They View Russian as ‘Language of Oppressors,’ ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says
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33. Moscow Threatening Environment by Sending Aging Ships without Ice Protections through Parts of Northern Sea Route Already Blocked by Ice, Norwegian Experts Warn
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34. Some Russian Soldiers in Ukraine Turning to Pagan Cults that Celebrate the Use of Force, Alarming Moscow Patriarchate windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/some-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine.html
35. Putin Allows Memories of Soviet Repression Only on a Regional Basis, Cherkasov Says
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36. Neither Russians nor Western Specialists on Russia are Prepared to Face Up to the Reality that Russia is an Empire which Must Be Decolonized, Margolis Says
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37. Putin’s Call for Restoration of Traditional Values Dangerous Because Such Values are So Varied and at Odds with Existing Social Structures, Grashchenkov Says
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38. Duma Votes to Increase Penalties for Russians who Engage in Armed Uprisings from 20 Years Imprisonment to Life Behind Bars windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/duma-votes-to-increase-penalties-for.html
39. Moscow’s Compatriots Program Attracting Ever Fewer Returnees, Interior Ministry Figures Show
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40. Despite Hype, Baku and Tehran Still Far from Agreement on Railway Connecting Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan via Iran windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/despite-hype-baku-and-tehran-still-far.html
41. Russia Can’t Become a North Korea or Iran Despite Hopes of Some and Fears of Others, Nikulin Says
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42. Moscow Now Seeking to Kill Off Finno-Ugric Peoples in Russian Federation, Estonian Deputy Warns
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43. Abortion Rates. Down by Almost 90 Percent Since End of Soviet Times, Continue to Fall Across Russia Except in Tyva and Moscow, Sakevich and Denisov Say
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44. Estonian Parliament Says Stalin’s Deportation of Crimean Tatars was a Genocide and that Moscow is Continuing that Crime Against Humanity in Russian Occupied Crimea
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45. Patrushev Using New Position to Promote Russian Naval Policies that Threaten the West
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46. As Putin’s War in Ukraine Grinds On, Moscow Cuts Funds for Fighting Cancer for Third Year in a Row
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47. Any Large-Scale Return of Kyrgyz Workers Now in Russia to Their Homeland will Destabilize It, Kyrgyzstan Deputies Say
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48. Under Putin, Russia’s Constitutional Court Now ‘a Potemkin Village of a Dictatorial Regime,’ Lukyanova Says
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49. Many Russian Schools with Support from Teachers and Parents Already Excluding Immigrant Children, Ghettoizing the Country, ‘Bumaga’ Says
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50. Russian Regions Offering Ever Higher Bonuses to Those who Sign Up for Military, Causing Some to Travel to Those who Offer More and Others who Took Lesser Amounts Earlier to Regret They Did, ‘SibReal’ Says
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