Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / December 16, 2024
1. Russian Women Increasingly Pushing Husbands and Even Ex-Husbands to Join Russian Army as Bonuses Rise, Studies Find
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2. For Putin, Contemporary Russian Nation was Born Not in 1991 but in 1945, Sokolov Says
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3. To Cope with Enormous Shortage of Police in Russian Cities and Villages, Moscow Now Using Militiamen from Kyrgyzstan
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4. Water Dispute between Kazakhstan and China Intensifying
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5. Escapes from Russian Prisons and Camps Increasingly Common, Mostly Because Guards are Corrupt, ‘Sovershenno Sekretno’ Says
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6. Almost 40 Percent of More than 1,000 Russian LGBTs Attacked were Killed, Memorial Reports
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7. Paganism Spreading among Combatants on Both Sides in Putin’s War in Ukraine, Moscow Expert Says
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8. Tatarstan Calls for Allowing All Federal Subjects to Have Their Own Academies of Sciences
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9. Moonshine Production So Widespread and Costing Moscow So Much Money that Russian Government is Using Satellites to Track It
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10. The Harsher the Putin Regime Becomes, the More Likely Russians will Rise Against It, ‘Russian Partisan’ Telegram Channel Says
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11. Dagestanis in Turkey Retain Ethnic and Local Identities but have Close Ties with Circassians and Turks, Krishtopa Says
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12. Russia Far from Only Former Soviet Republic with Dying Company Towns
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13. Some Members of Russian Elites Now Distancing Themselves from Putin, Gallyamov Says
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14. Lukashenka Promotes ‘Soviet Belarusian’ Identity against Russian World and Belarusian Nationalism, Bratochkin Says
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15. Ingush Must Never Forget Those in Magas and Moscow who Betrayed Them Six Years Ago by Giving Ten Percent of Their Land to Chechnya, Bekov Says
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16. Since 2022, Russian Culture Ministry has Approved 145 Erotic and Pornographic Films for Public Showing Online
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17. In Stalin’s Time, Russians Denounced Others to Get Apartments; Now, in Putin’s, They Do So to Get Medical Care They Want
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18. Identifying Corpses Not a High Priority for Russian Police, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Reports
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19. One in Four Recent Graduates of an Russian Officer Training School Died in Ukraine Fighting
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20. Peace in Eurasia Possible Only if Russia is Dismantled Because Otherwise It will Sooner or Later Seek as a Prison House of Peoples to Reconstitute the Empire, Panich Says
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21. ‘Putin doesn’t want a Truce in Ukraine But Might Agree to One for Three Reasons,’ Shelin Says
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22. Putin has Given Assad Asylum But is Unlikely to Allow Syria’s Circassians to Return Home
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23. Just like a Century Ago, Moscow’s Intelligence Services Working Hard to Penetrate Wide Swath of Émigré Opposition Groups
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24. Western Sanctions Mean Northern Sea Route Carried Only Half the Cargo This Year Putin had Called For, Rosatom Chief Says
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25. War in Ukraine No Time to Talk about Fixing Elevators Even in High-Rise Buildings, Officials Tell Residents of Nine-Story Apartment Building without Them
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26. Russian Parents Pulling Their Children Out of Public Schools to Escape Brainwashing and Other Problems
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27. Beijing Rapidly Expanding Its Influence across Russian Far East — with Putin’s Help, Nemets Says
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28. Moscow Struggles to Come Up with List of ‘Historical Peoples’ of Russia
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29. Syria’s Asad Sixth Member of Post-Soviet Moscow’s Club of Overthrown Presidents
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30. As War in Ukraine Continues, Moscow Increasingly Talking about Sprea of Banditry in Russia Itself
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31. ‘Only Non-Russian Republics have Strength to Overthrow Russian Government,’ Bashkir Activist Says
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32. Moscow’s Decision Not to Put Pictures of Religious Sites on Banknotes Infuriates Moscow Patriarchate
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33. Ingush Interior Ministry Angers Local People by Refusing to Apologize for Calling Local Youngsters ‘Mankurts’ and Punishing Their Parents
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34. Syrian Events Seen Having Greater Impact on North Caucasus than Even War in Ukraine Has
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35. Russians East of the Urals No More Afraid of China than Those to the West, Levada Center Head Says Polls Show
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36. Russia’s Nationalities Agency Calls for New Law to Tighten Control over National-Cultural Organizations
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37. Chechnya Pressuring Ingushetia to Yield Land Magas had Agreed to Give Grozny in 2018
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38. For First Time Since Pandemic, Russian Deaths have Increased in 2024, in Part Because of Combat Losses in Ukraine, Official Moscow Data Show
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39. Sanctions Hitting Russian Airlines Harder with Each Passing Month Re-Russia Says
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40. Chinese and Central Asians Combining to ‘Displace’ Ethnic Russians in Far Eastern City
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41. Weapons Flooding into ‘Bandit Formations’ in North Caucasus, Bortnikov Says
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42. Roma Children Not Provided with Adequate Schooling in Russia and So Leave Before Middle Grades, Extending Isolation of Their Nation, Memorial Expert Says
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43. State of Winter Crops in Russia This Year Worse than at Any Time in the Past, Soil Experts Say
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44. Putin Involved in Effort to Force Ingushetia to Hand Over Land to Chechnya, ‘Fortanga’ Reports
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45. Russian Soldiers in Ukraine Less Supportive of Peace Talks than are Russians at Home, ‘Vyorstka’ Reports /windowoneurasia2.blogspot.
46. Syrian Revolution ‘Start of Russia’s Decolonialization’ Just as East European Revolutions were of USSR’s Disintegration, Lushnikov Says
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47. Moscow Asks Federal Subjects to Prepare History Textbooks that Treat Them as Russian Regions rather than as National Republics
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48. Since Putin Began His Expanded War in Ukraine, Russians have Destroyed 17 Memorials to Poles Repressed in USSR
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49. Controversy over Pühtitsa Female Monastery in Estonia Raises Possibility Moscow Patriarchate Might Extend Stauropegial Status to Maintain ROC MP Influence Abroad
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50. Kadyrov’s Comments about Ingush Sparks Outrage among Chechens and Ingush
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