Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / December 29, 2024
1. Regional History Textbooks Now Must Not Contradict Moscow’s Position or One Another, Kremlin Officials Tell Regional Authors
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2. Feminism Must Play a Key Role in Ending Moscow’s Authoritarianism and Aggression, Domańska Says
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3. 91 Percent of Victims of Family Violence in Russia are Women, and Men who Inflict It Get Off Unpunished or with Only Small Fines or a Few Days in Jail, ‘Scythe’ Portal Says
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4. Since Putin Became President, Predominantly Ethnic Russian Regions have Seen Their Populations Plummet and the Number of Ghost Towns in Them Jump
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5. Russian Actress Fined for Joke about Karels, a Nation Only One in 200 of Its Members under the Age of Nine Speaks Their Language
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6. Growing Shortage of Military Equipment One Reason Why Kremlin Reducing Military Recruitment Effort in Moscow, ‘Meduza’ Says
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7. Moscow Increasingly Using Its Journalists Abroad for Espionage, Dobrokhotov Says
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8. Many Families of Russians Fighting in Ukraine Freezing in Their Homes
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9. Russia’s Critical Shortage of Teachers in STEM Subjects Threatens Country’s Development, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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10. Russian Economy Split Between Surging and Stagnating Sectors and So are Attitudes of Russians about the Future, Academy of Sciences Study Reports
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11. Batal-Haji Sufi Order in Ingushetia ‘New Wahhabis in Eyes of Regional and Federal Authorities,’ a Perspective that May Trigger a New War
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12. Keeping Migrant Children who Don’t Know Russian Out of Schools Counterproductive and ‘Stupid,’ Activist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.
13. Increasing Demand for Burials since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine Sends Funeral Service Prices Skyrocketing
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14. 2024 Marked a Partial Stabilization of ‘New Repressive Landscape’ in Russia, OVD-Info Expert Says
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15. No Matter How Many Territorial Concessions Ingushetia Makes, Kadyrov Won’t Stop Until He Controls All of Ingushetia, Sultygov Says
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16. Many Suffer from ‘Delusion’ that after Putin, ‘Everything will Return to Normal and Be Just Fine,’ Sulandziga Says
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17. Couriers in Russia Now Receive Higher Pay than Doctors, Teachers, and Even IT Professionals
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18. Duma Foolishly Wants to Create an Institute for the Study of Traditional Values, El Murid Says
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19. Russians with Same Names as Other Russians Sanctioned by the West Suffering as a Result
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20. Putin Says ‘Ethnic Jews Tearing Apart Russian Orthodox Church,’ Reviving Theme of Stalin’s Campaign Against ‘Rootless Cosmopolitans’
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21. Restrictions on Migrant Workers Already Hitting Russian Citizens, Especially Those who aren’t Ethnically Russian or Don’t Appear to Be
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22. Kremlin Increasingly Using Repressive Measures to Try to Boost Birthrate, Shukyurov Says
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23. Central Asians More Numerous, Younger and Living Longer than in 1991, New Moscow Study Finds
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24. Angry at Chisinau and Encouraged by Moscow, Gagauz May Declare Independence from Moldova As Early as in February
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25. Regional Movements Assume More Prominent Role at 14th Forum of Free States of Post-Russia
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26. Russians Today Associate Stalin with Victory and Order and See Him as Model Russian Ruler, ‘Svobodnaya Pressa’ Informal Survey Finds
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27. Fertility Rates Falling across the World But Not in Post-Soviet Central Asia
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28. Russian TV Losing Its Audience and Public Trust Far More Rapidly than It is in Europe in Part Because of Moscow’s War Propaganda, ‘Re-Russia’ Says Statistics Show
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29. Russian Government Agencies Stop Issuing 385 Data Sets in 2024, Largest Cutback in Last Three Years, ‘To Be Exact’ Portal Says
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30. Putin has Gelded Regional Elites but Could Face Serious Challenges from Them in 2026-2028, Kynyev Says
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31. Muftis have Come Out in Favor of Polygamy to Protect Widows of Those who have Died Fighting in Ukraine, Gaynutdin Says
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32. More than Half of New HIV Cases in Russia East of the Urals where Infection Rates Rival or Even Exceed Those in Sub-Saharan Africa, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says
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33. Many Places North of Where Kazakhstan-Russian Border Now Is Once had Kazakh Majorities, but Orenburg Wasn’t One of Them, Kazakh Commentator Points Out.
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34. Kremlin Blames Russia’s Demographic Decline on the 20th Century, Doesn’t Understand Its Real Source, and has No Policy to Counter It, Chernyshov Says
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35. Russians’ Renewed Focus on Victory and Need to Control Elites Most Important Factor Behind Their More Positive View of Stalin, Volkov Says
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36. Since Putin Began Expanded Invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has Radically Increased Repression in Russian Higher Educational Institutions
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37. Majority of Protests in Russian Federal Subjects in 2024 were about Local or Regional Issues, Sorokina Says
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38. Like Hitler with German Culture, Putin Using Admiration for Russian Culture to Disorder West and Generate Domestic Support for His Wars, Lea and Taskin Say
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39. Kremlin Now Moving to Censor Books But Lacks the Ideology and Bureaucracy Needed to Do So Effectively, Kharitonov Says
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40. Merzyan Ethnic Activism Making Major Contribution to Russian Civil Society, Kikhlanki Says
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41. Global Warming More than War in Ukraine Behind Record Number of Disasters in Russia in 2024, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says
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42. Moscow’s Repression Became Systemic in 2024, with Number of Cases Stabilizing but Punishments Meted Out Increasingly Harsh, ‘Re-Russia’ Says
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43. With Trump Again Talking about Greenland, Moscow Focusing on Faeroe Islands and Their Possible Independence
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44. Putin’s Russia ‘a Mutation of Soviet Communism’ and Sovietology Needs to Be Restored If It is To Be Understood, Savvin Says
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45. Polygamy Fetwa Case Misunderstood and Debate over that Practice Far from Over, Experts Say
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46. Medvedev Says Ethnic Enclaves in Russian Cities ‘Breeding Grounds’ for Extremism
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47. A Russian Victory in Ukraine will Usher In a New Age of Empires that will Soon Collide with One Another, Surkov Says
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48. Pro-Kremlin Telegram Channels Feature Clip showing Russian Air Defense Shooting Down Santa Claus and His Sleigh
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49. Duma Members Increasingly Support Introduction of Food Stamps Everywhere in Russia
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50. Unless Ukraine Receives Serious Security Guarantees, Many Ukrainians Now Abroad May Not Return Home, Further Compromising that Country’s Demographic Future
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