Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / January 31, 2025

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’

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/russian-monastery-near-kazan-publishes.html

4. FSB Designates 172 Ethnic and Regional Groups ‘Terrorist’ Organizations

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/fsb-designates-172-ethnic-and-regional.html

5. Clash in Russia Over Country’s Future between Stalinists and Black Hundreds ‘Inevitable,’ Prilepin Says

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/clash-in-russia-over-countrys-future.html

6. Uniate Churches in Kazakhstan Help Ukrainians There Retain Identity and Orthodox There to Pursue Autocephaly

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/uniate-churches-in-kazakhstan-help.html

7. Ukraine Can Achieve Its Goals Only if Russia Suffers a Strategic Defeat, Something West isn’t Ready to Inflict, Pastukhov Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/ukraine-can-achieve-its-goals-only-if.html

8. Kyrgyzstan since 1991 has Attracted about 10 Percent of Ethnic Kyrgyz Living Abroad

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/kyrgyzstan-since-1991-has-attracted.html

9. Moscow Ambivalent about Trump’s Call for US Acquisition of Greenland

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/moscow-ambivalent-about-trumps-call-for.html

10. Literatures of Numerically Small Nations Often Plays Larger Role than Do Those of Larger Peoples, Hungarian Specialist on Finno-Ugric Nationalities Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/literatures-of-numerically-small.html

11. Putin’s Invasion Led Ukrainians to Make Dramatic Shift from Russian to Ukrainian on Social Media

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/putins-invasion-led-ukrainians-to-make.html

12. Duma Defense Committee Member Wants Russia to have Military Base in Svalbard and Control of Portions of Greenland

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/duma-defense-committee-member-wants.html

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

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/with-advance-in-ukraines-donetsk-oblast.html

15. Ukraine and Moldova Too May Soon Cease to Exist along with Other States that Mistreat Russians, Patrushev Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/ukraine-and-moldova-too-may-soon-cease.html

16. Aleksandr Shchipkov – Soviet-Era Dissident who is Now Chief Ideologist of the ROC MP

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/aleksandr-shchipkov-soviet-era.html

17. Kremlin Foolishly and Unnecessarily Creating Grounds for Separatism in Russia, El Murid Says  windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/kremlin-foolishly-and-unnecessarily.html

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

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/west-must-take-five-steps-now-to.html

21. ‘Russian Community’ Claims One Million Followers and Now has Branches in Former Soviet Republics

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/russian-community-claims-one-million.html

22. Buddhist Community in Russia and Its Leadership Sharply Divided about War in Ukraine

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/buddhist-community-in-russia-and-its.html

23. Rosstat Changes Way It Calculates Inflation to Hide Price Increases

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/rosstat-changes-way-it-calculates.html

24. Islamist Extremism, Veterans Returning from Ukraine Threaten to Increase Crime in Russia, Moscow Criminologists Say

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/islamist-extremism-veterans-returning.html

25. Moscow Patriarch Believes His Church Can Regain Following It Lost in 2022 Only By Becoming More Pro-War, Dubrovsky Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/moscow-patriarch-believes-his-church.html

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

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/russia-isnt-ussr-ukraine-isnt-finland.html

27. With Assad’s Ouster, Moscow Set to Lose Important Church Ally in Orthodox World

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/with-assads-ouster-moscow-set-to-lose.html

28. Secularist and Democratic Ichkerian Army Taking Shape in Ukraine

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/secularist-and-democratic-ichkerian.html

29. In Chukotka, Moscow Replaces Independent Whaling Group with Puppet One in Name of National Security but Destroying Way of Life of Indigenous Peoples

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-chukotka-moscow-replaces-independent.html

30. Putin’s Orders about Shipbuilding Aren’t Being Carried Out, Patrushev Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/putins-orders-about-shipbuilding-arent.html

31. Ukraine at Risk of ‘Somalization’ if West Suddenly Ends Aid to Force Talks, Moscow Analyst Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/ukraine-at-risk-of-somalization-if-west.html

32. Holidays are Deadly for Russians, ‘To Be Precise’ Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/holidays-are-deadly-for-russians-to-be.html

33. Northern Fleet Newspaper Blames Mothers and Wives or Large Russian Losses in Ukraine

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/northern-fleet-newspaper-blames-mothers.html

34. Unlike Stalin, Putin will Leave Behind Not a Strong State but Only ‘Ruins,’ Shelin Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/unlike-stalin-putin-will-leave-behind.html

35. By Acquiring Greenland, US would Become ‘Arctic Player Equal in Size to Russia’ and Trigger Conflict with Moscow, Yevstafyev Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/by-acquiring-greenland-us-would-become.html

36. Kremlin Launches Program to Transform Political Strategists into ‘Social Architects’

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/kremlin-launches-program-to-transform.html

37. Broken Windows Theory Explains What is Going On in Russian Cities, ‘PolitSovet’ Suggests

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/broken-windows-theory-explains-what-is.html

38. Moscow Authorities Forced to Proceed Cautiously against Batal-Haji Sufi Order Because of Its Strength, Observer Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/moscow-authorities-forced-to-proceed.html

39. Tens of Thousands of Russian Wounded Waiting for Prosthetic Devices

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/tens-of-thousands-of-russian-wounded.html

40. Prilepin Equates Enemies of Soviet Power with Enemies of Russia, Deepening Divisions among Russian Nationalists who Support Putin’s War in Ukraine

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/prilepin-equates-enemies-of-soviet.html

41. Kazan Officials Want to Set Up a Republic Personals Service so Tatars can Find Tatar Partners and have More Children

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/kazan-officials-want-to-set-up-republic.html

42. Russian Courts Seek to Reduce Ability of Juries to Find Anyone Innocent

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/russian-courts-seek-to-reduce-ability.html

43. Almost Five Million Russian Aged 14 to 35 Now Don’t Study or Work, Youth Agency Head Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/almost-five-million-russian-aged-14-to.html

44. Kostroma Renames Hospital for Inventor of Soviet-Era Punitive Psychiatry’s Concept of ‘Sluggish Schizophrenia’

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/kostroma-renames-hospital-for-inventor.html

45. ‘Men in North Caucasus have a Few More Rights than Women But No One is Free,’ Rights Activist Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/men-in-north-caucasus-have-few-more.html

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

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/todays-russian-community-differs-from.html

47. Fewer than Four Percent of All Newborns in Russia in 2023 were Children of Foreigners, ‘To Be Precise’ Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/fewer-than-four-percent-of-all-newborns.html

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

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/diversity-within-russian-opposition.html

50. Turkmenistan Still Neutral but Meaning of that Status is Evolving, Volkov Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/turkmenistan-still-neutral-but-meaning.html

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