Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / January 31, 2025
Because my health problems have been increasing, I am unable to produce as much or as quickly as I did earlier. I will continue to distribute Windows but at a rate much below that of earlier times. Paul Goble
1. War in Ukraine Slowing Moscow’s Drive to Regain Blue Water Navy Able to Challenge the West
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2. Belarus to Open Embassy at the Vatican
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3. Russian Monastery Near Kazan Publishes Booklet Declaring Opponents of War in Ukraine ‘Cowards’ and ‘Traitors’
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4. FSB Designates 172 Ethnic and Regional Groups ‘Terrorist’ Organizations
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5. Clash in Russia Over Country’s Future between Stalinists and Black Hundreds ‘Inevitable,’ Prilepin Says
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6. Uniate Churches in Kazakhstan Help Ukrainians There Retain Identity and Orthodox There to Pursue Autocephaly
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7. Ukraine Can Achieve Its Goals Only if Russia Suffers a Strategic Defeat, Something West isn’t Ready to Inflict, Pastukhov Says
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8. Kyrgyzstan since 1991 has Attracted about 10 Percent of Ethnic Kyrgyz Living Abroad
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9. Moscow Ambivalent about Trump’s Call for US Acquisition of Greenland
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10. Literatures of Numerically Small Nations Often Plays Larger Role than Do Those of Larger Peoples, Hungarian Specialist on Finno-Ugric Nationalities Says
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11. Putin’s Invasion Led Ukrainians to Make Dramatic Shift from Russian to Ukrainian on Social Media
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12. Duma Defense Committee Member Wants Russia to have Military Base in Svalbard and Control of Portions of Greenland
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13. Warsaw May Restrict Repatriation of Poles from Russia Out of Fear that Among Them are Spies
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14. With Advance in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, Moscow Gains Control of Lithium Deposit Larger than Size of All Such Deposits in US
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15. Ukraine and Moldova Too May Soon Cease to Exist along with Other States that Mistreat Russians, Patrushev Says
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16. Aleksandr Shchipkov – Soviet-Era Dissident who is Now Chief Ideologist of the ROC MP
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17. Kremlin Foolishly and Unnecessarily Creating Grounds for Separatism in Russia, El Murid Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.
18. Despite What Kremlin Wants People to Believe, Millions of Russians Oppose the Ruling Minority in Moscow, Podrabinek Says
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19. All Chechens Fighting on Side of Ukraine Want Independence for Their Republic, Grozny Political Analyst Says
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20. West Must Take Five Steps Now to Encourage Members of Russian Elite to Break with Putin and Flee Abroad, Lea and Taskin Say
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21. ‘Russian Community’ Claims One Million Followers and Now has Branches in Former Soviet Republics
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22. Buddhist Community in Russia and Its Leadership Sharply Divided about War in Ukraine
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23. Rosstat Changes Way It Calculates Inflation to Hide Price Increases
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24. Islamist Extremism, Veterans Returning from Ukraine Threaten to Increase Crime in Russia, Moscow Criminologists Say
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25. Moscow Patriarch Believes His Church Can Regain Following It Lost in 2022 Only By Becoming More Pro-War, Dubrovsky Says
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26. ‘Russia isn’t the USSR, Ukraine isn’t Finland, and Putin isn’t Stalin’ – Shelin on Why Old Models of Conflict Resolution Won’t Work for Ukraine
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27. With Assad’s Ouster, Moscow Set to Lose Important Church Ally in Orthodox World
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28. Secularist and Democratic Ichkerian Army Taking Shape in Ukraine
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29. In Chukotka, Moscow Replaces Independent Whaling Group with Puppet One in Name of National Security but Destroying Way of Life of Indigenous Peoples
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30. Putin’s Orders about Shipbuilding Aren’t Being Carried Out, Patrushev Says
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31. Ukraine at Risk of ‘Somalization’ if West Suddenly Ends Aid to Force Talks, Moscow Analyst Says
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32. Holidays are Deadly for Russians, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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33. Northern Fleet Newspaper Blames Mothers and Wives or Large Russian Losses in Ukraine
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34. Unlike Stalin, Putin will Leave Behind Not a Strong State but Only ‘Ruins,’ Shelin Says
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35. By Acquiring Greenland, US would Become ‘Arctic Player Equal in Size to Russia’ and Trigger Conflict with Moscow, Yevstafyev Says
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36. Kremlin Launches Program to Transform Political Strategists into ‘Social Architects’
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37. Broken Windows Theory Explains What is Going On in Russian Cities, ‘PolitSovet’ Suggests
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38. Moscow Authorities Forced to Proceed Cautiously against Batal-Haji Sufi Order Because of Its Strength, Observer Says
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39. Tens of Thousands of Russian Wounded Waiting for Prosthetic Devices
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40. Prilepin Equates Enemies of Soviet Power with Enemies of Russia, Deepening Divisions among Russian Nationalists who Support Putin’s War in Ukraine
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41. Kazan Officials Want to Set Up a Republic Personals Service so Tatars can Find Tatar Partners and have More Children
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42. Russian Courts Seek to Reduce Ability of Juries to Find Anyone Innocent
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43. Almost Five Million Russian Aged 14 to 35 Now Don’t Study or Work, Youth Agency Head Says
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44. Kostroma Renames Hospital for Inventor of Soviet-Era Punitive Psychiatry’s Concept of ‘Sluggish Schizophrenia’
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45. ‘Men in North Caucasus have a Few More Rights than Women But No One is Free,’ Rights Activist Says
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46. Today’s ‘Russian Community’ Differs from Tsarist Era’s Black Hundreds Only by Its Lack of Stress on Anti-Semitism, Anti-Fascist Activist Says
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47. Fewer than Four Percent of All Newborns in Russia in 2023 were Children of Foreigners, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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48. Only Three Groups in Russia Benefiting from War and Both They and Amounts of Money Involved Smaller than Most Imagine, Researcher Says
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49. ‘Diversity within Russian Opposition Ends with Gender and Doesn’t Include LGBTQ People or Ethnic Minorities, Maladayeva Says
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50. Turkmenistan Still Neutral but Meaning of that Status is Evolving, Volkov Says
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