Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / January 11, 2025
1. Following Shoot Down of Azerbaijani Plane, More Foreign Carriers Exit Russian Market
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2. Now Russian Families with Two Incomes and Two Children Can Afford a Mortgage in Only Two Federal Subjects, a Decline from 30 a Year Ago
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3. Ending War in Ukraine May Generate ‘Almost as Big a Crisis for the Kremlin as Its Beginning,’ Pertsev Says
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4. New Russian Countr-Extremism Strategy Document Focuses on Ukraine, the West, Younger Russians, and Activists But Offers Little New Otherwise
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5. Lines, Not Meetings, Symbol of Protest in Russia in 2024, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says
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6. Putin’s Favorite Orthodox Hierarch Says Russian Empire was Going in Right Direction but was Brought Down in 1917 by Dissatisfied Elites
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7. In Putin’s Russia, Conditions Exist for a Coup but Not Yet a Revolution, El Murid Says
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8. Russian and Turkish Cultures have Much in Common, Not Least in How They View the West and How the West has Worked to Keep Them in One Piece, Kerimoglu Says
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9. Arnold Rüütel, ‘a Washington for Estonia,’ Dead at Age of 96
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10. Russians Outside of Moscow Identify Very Different Stories as Important than Do Muscovites
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11. Moscow Boasts about Bridges to China and North Korea but Fails to Build Roads Leading to Them or Training Enough Logistics Experts
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12. By 2025, Soviet Leaders Said USSR would have a Base on the Moon, a Bridge to Alaska, and Thousands of Robotic Factories
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13. By Calling for a State Register of Languages, Putin Sets the Stage for New Moves against Non-Russian Nations
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14. Putin’s ‘Consensual Democracy’ Quite Adequate for ‘Totally Passive’ Society, Inozemtsev Says
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15. Putin’s Invasion has Led to ‘Almost Complete Disappearance’ of Differences between Eastern and Western Ukraine about West and Russia, Kyiv Sociologist Says
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16. Putin Orders Educational Ministry to Drop Key Reference to ‘Native’ Languages
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17. Moscow Losing Another Battle in Alphabet Wars – This Time in Mongolia
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18. Moscow’s High Interest Rates and Anti-Migrant Moves Slowing Growth in Trade with China Dramatically, Usov Says
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19. Eight of Ten Top Rated Higher Educational Institutions in Russia are in Moscow
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20. Putin Demanding of Ukraine Now What Stalin Demanded of Baltic Countries Before Annexing Them Completely, ‘Continuation Follows’ Portal Says
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21. Moscow’s Moves Against Immigrants Violate Russian Constitution and Open the War to Apartheid, El Murid Says
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22. Under Putin, Talk about the Past ‘New Opium for the People,’ Pakhalyuk Says
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23. Pay Advantage of Russian Men over Russian Women has Increased since Putin’s War in Ukraine Began, ‘Vyorstka’ Says
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24. Moscow’s Plans for North-South Transit Corridor Face Five Serious Problems, Russian Analysts Say
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25. Bashkirs Burn Flag of Pre-1917 Russian Empire under which Some Russian Troops have Been Fighting in Ukraine
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26. Russia Doesn’t Have a Shortage of People: It has a Shortage of Skilled Positions and People Trained for Them, Krupnov Says
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27. Revival of USSR No Longer Merely a Hope but Something Inevitable Quite Possibly in 2025, Wasserman Says
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28. Migrantophobia Threatening to ‘Ukrainianize’ Russia and Undermine Its Unity, Eurasianist Warns
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29. Moscow Orthodox Leaders Met with Russian Officials Far More Often in 2023-2024 than Earlier But Continues to Lose Parishioners, ‘Vyorstka’ Finds
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30. Zarifa Sautiyeva, Only Woman Among Ingush Seven, Released from Prison Colony after Completing Her Sentence
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31. Moscow Announces Plans to Save Languages at Greatest Risk of Extinction Even as It Pushes More Non-Russian Languages in that Direction
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32. Putin Unable to Satisfy Either Pro-Peace or Pro-War Factions in Russian Elite, Eidman Says
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33. Nomadic People in Russian North Benefiting from Moscow’s Effort to Hold Populations along Arctic Coast
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34. Criticism of State of Russian Forces in Ukraine More Often Found in Pro-War Russian Commentaries than in Anti-War Ones, ‘Holod’ Journalist Suggests
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35. Narva Becomes Cultural Capital of Finno-Ugric World and Gives that Title New and Expanded Meaning
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36. Chechnya’s Kadyrov Expanding His Military Training Network into Russian North, ‘Barents Observer’ Reports
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37. Moscow Sooner or Later will Restart Regional Amalgamation Effort, Minchenko Says
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38. Russians Again Drinking Less Beer and Wine and More Hard Liquor, Driving Down Life Expectancy and Increasing Violent Crime, Russian Statistics Show
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39. Official Unemployment in Ingushetia 12 Times Higher than for Russian Federation as a Whole, New Rosstat Figures Show
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40. Tallinn Set to Demand Moscow Church in Estonia Break All Ties with ROC MP or Face Liquidation
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41. Moscow Set to Divide Russia’s Languages into Three Categories: Living, Dormant and Extinct
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42. Ukrainian Parliament Declares Russian Actions Against Circassians a Genocide
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43. Only about Half as Many Russians Attended Christmas Services This Year than did in 2020, Driven Away by ROC MP’s Chauvinism, Homophobia and Militarism, One of Those who Didn’t Go Says
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44. Putin May Visit Antarctica to Counter Western Claims and Assert Russian Interests, Moscow Commentator Says
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45. If Russia Collapsed Tomorrow, Sakha People would Not Want It Restored, Zubareva Says
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46. Kadyrov Sats He’s in Command of All Military Forces in Chechnya – and Not Just Chechen Units
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47. Russia’s Northern Sea Route Carried Less than Half the Cargo in 2024 Putin Order and Less than 10 Percent of That Involved Passage over the Entire Route
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48. Putin’s Favorite Newspaper Loses Nearly a Third of Its Readers in 2024
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49. Ukrainians Won’t Despair Unless US Cuts Off Support, Top Kyiv Sociologist Says
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50. By Talking about Annexing Greenland, Pro-Kremlin Bloggers Say, Trump has Legitimized Moscow’s Actions in Ukraine and is leading Other Countries to Think about Seizing Neighboring Lands