Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia/ February 16, 2025
1. Putin’s Healthcare Optimization Program has Closed 14 of the 17 Psychiatric Clinics Open in Moscow a Decade Ago
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2. Russians Don’t Know Their Own Country and Plans for New School Subject about It Won’t Help, Yury Dolgoruky Telegram Channel Says
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3. 20 Percent of Judge Slots in Russia Now Vacant, Supreme Court Statistics Show
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4. Khakass Council of Elders Says ‘Without a Language, There Won’t Be a Republic’
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5. 50,000 Russians have Moved to China, Some for Business, Some to Marry, and Some to Live Comfortably in Retirement, New Academy of Sciences Study Says
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6. Kremlin’s Efforts to Boost Birthrate Failing Largely Because Potential Parents Think Conditions in Putin’s Russia are Getting Worse, El Murid Says
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7. Russia’s Population has Declined for Seven Years in a Row, Rosstat Says
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8. Kadyrov Working to Create Chechnya-Controlled Muftiate in Ingushetia
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9. Promoting Tver Karelian Culture Alone, as Russian Authorities Nominally Do, Won’t Keep That Nation from Dying Out, Activists Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/promoting-tver-karelian-culture-alone.html
10. Since Start of Expanded War in 2022, Russians have Increasingly Turned to Fortune Tellers and Witchcraft, Statistics Show windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/since-start-of-expanded-war-in-2022.html
11. Kremlin Efforts to Revive Soviet-Style Writers Union Won’t Work, Pryanikov Says
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12. Yandex Announces Plans to Add Kabardin-Cherkess and Karachay-Balkar Languages to Its Translation Function windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/yandex-announces-plans-to-add-kabardin.html
13. Moscow Patriarchate’s Plan to Canonize Suvorov Outrages His Non-Russian Victims, Sidorov Says
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14. Regional Ombudsmen Stopped Defending Political Rights Long Ago and Now aren’t Defending Social Rights Except of Those Fighting in Ukraine, ‘New Tab’ Study Finds
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15. Mironov Wants Moscow to Follow Trump and Give Russian Names to Arctic Ocean, Franz Joseph Land and Svalbard windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/mironov-wants-moscow-to-follow-trump.html
16. Mari Followers of Traditional Religion Expanding Their Formal Organizations – And Promoting both Nationalism and Democracy windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/mari-followers-of-traditional-religion.html
17. Putinism, ‘an Unstable Isotope,’ Now Decaying into Its Component Parts, Pastukhov Says
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18. Pro-Kremlin Telegram Channel Calls for Sending Just-Released Ingush Seven Activist to Fight in Ukraine
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19. Karelian Legislative Assembly Backs Plan to Create Online Translation Function for Karelian Language
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20. Russian Scholars will be Forced to get FSB Approval for Contacts and Cooperation with Foreign Colleagues, if Government Bill Passes windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/russian-scholars-will-be-forced-to-get.html
21. Stepashin Says Stalin Made a Major Mistake in Annexing Western Ukraine, But Other Russian Historians Dissent windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/stepashin-says-stalin-made-major.html
22. Russia’s Multi-National and Poly-Confessional Character Doesn’t Make It Unique or Give It a Competitive Advantage, Silantyev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/russias-multi-national-and-poly.html
23. Russian Officials Should have the Power to Refuse to Register ‘Strange’ Names, Children’s Ombudsman in Tatarstan Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/russian-officials-should-have-power-to.html
24. Russian Government’s Failure to Support Villages and Roads Linking Them to Urban Centers is ‘Above All’ an Attack on Country’s Ethnic Minorities, ‘Free Idel-Ural’ Says
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25. Residents in 30 Federal Subjects Take Part in ‘Thanks to Navalny’ Action of Their Own
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26. Central Asia Needs Help to Exploit Its Critical Mineral Reserves, Meirkhanova Says
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27. To Fill Its Depleted Ranks in Ukraine, Moscow Now Planning to Draft Those with Venereal Diseases and Mental Problems windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/to-fill-its-depleted-ranks-in-ukraine.html
28. Novels Offering Alternative Histories for Russia Extremely Popular Among Russians and Useful to Regime
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29. Far Fewer Russians who Left in 2022 are Returning than Putin Claims and Earlier Studies Suggested
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30. Except for Submarines, Russia’s Northern Fleet Highlights Growing Gap between Moscow’s Ambitions and Navy’s Resources, Norwegians Say
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31. Pro-War Propaganda in Russian Kindergartens Likely to Have Long-Lasting Negative Consequences, Arkhipova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/pro-war-propaganda-in-russian.html
32. Opponents and Supporters of Putin Regime Worked Together to Clean Up Oil Spill Disaster
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33. Chechens Living in Georgia Fearing Greater Russian Role There Turning to More Radical Versions of Islam
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34. Unit Consisting of Soldiers from Various Non-Russian Republics Formed to Fight Russian Invaders in Ukraine
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35. Denunciations Again Becoming ‘Socially Approved’ in Russia, Arkhipova Says
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36. Ukraine War Transforming Russian Nation Just as Profoundly as It is the Ukrainian One, Pastukhov Says
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37. Russian Officials Brag about 8-Hour Flight Time between Moscow and Chukotka but Ignore Days and Weeks It Takes Passengers and Cargo to Get to Airports in North, Sulyma Say
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38. A Guide to the Most Popular Media Outlets in Four of Five Central Asian Countries
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39. Number of Scientific Researchers in Russia in Decline Since 1991 On Course to Fall Further, Moscow State University Scholars Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/number-of-scientific-researchers-in.html
40. Because of Teacher Shortage, Russia’s Educators Could Speak Out with Little Risk of Repression, Chernyshov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/because-of-teacher-shortage-russias.html
41. Arctic is More than the Ocean and Moscow’s Approach Must be More than Building Atomic Icebreakers, Eidelman Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/arctic-is-more-than-ocean-and-moscows.html
42. Ethnic Russian Nation Faces ‘Replacement’ by Immigrants Unless Moscow Takes Action, Krupnov Says
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43. Economic Protests in Russia Likely to Arise in Specific Professions rather than in the Population at Large, Inozemtsev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/economic-protests-in-russia-likely-to.html
44. Putin’s Use of Bans Counterproductive but Continue Because He’s Detroyed Alternative Means of Social Management, El Murid Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/putins-use-of-bans-counterproductive.html
45. Moscow’s All Too Obvious Lack of a Nationality Policy Could Bring On Another 1991, Kabanov Says
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46. Deaths Now Exceed Births in St. Petersburg and Even More in Surrounding Leningrad Oblast
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47. Restricting or Even Banning Abortions Won’t Boost Population Growth, Russian Sociologist Says
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48. Despite Official Opposition, At Least Half of Chechnya’s Population has Turned to Faith Healers and Fortune Tellers since 2009 windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/despite-official-opposition-at-least.html
49. Lukashenka Asks Poland and Vatican Not to Send Any More Polish Catholic Priests to Belarus
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50. Kirill’s Crack about Critic Possibly Being from Western Ukraine Speaks Volumes about Moscow’s Attitudes about Ukraine windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/kirills-crack-about-critic-possibly.html
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