Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / March 4, 2025
1. Russia’s Soft Power in Decline since 2007, Moscow is Using ‘Sharp Power’ Instead, Grantseva Says
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2. Moscow’s New Changes in How Immigrants are Counted Behind Reports Their Actual Number is Increasing at Unprecedented Rates, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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3. Alphabet Change Dividing Populations and Reducing Literacy Rates in Central Asian Countries, Uzbek Scholar Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/alphabet-change-dividing-populations.html
4. Birthrates Remain High and Life Expectancy Increasing in Central Asian Countries
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5. 80 Percent of Islamist Radicals in North Caucasus Children of Siloviki and Political Elites, Experts Say
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6. Russian Nationalists who Were Opposed to War in Ukraine have Almost Disappeared, SOVA Says
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7. West Needs a New Containment Policy to Ensure Defeat of Putin’s System, Three Prominent Russian Scholars Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/west-needs-new-containment-policy-to.html
8. Life under Kadyrov Now So Bad Chechens would Welcome Even an Ethnic Russian to Replace Him, Lomayev Suggests windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/life-under-kadyrov-now-so-bad-chechens.html
9. Kremlin Tells Russia Media to Play Down Trump Lest He Upstage Putin, ‘Meduza’ Says
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10. Ten Percent of Languages in Russian Federation ‘On Brink of Extinction,’ Mari Writer Says
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11. Between 1944 and 1991, the Soviets Named 431,000 Women Hero Mothers; Between 2008 and Now, the Putin Regime has Awarded Only 118
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12. Not Only Veterans Invoking War in Ukraine to Get Reduced Sentences, ‘Vyorstka’ Reports
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13. Moscow’s Use of Men from Non-Russian Regions as Cannon Fodder Nothing New but Now Much Worse than Ever Before, ‘Free Idel-Ural’ Activist Says
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14. Anti-War Art in Russia Increasingly Anonymous and Influential, Arkhangelsky Says
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15. Save the Caspian Sea Organization Holds International Conference in Astana
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16. Pro-War Russian Writers Fear Moscow, Having Won the War in Ukraine, will Lose the Peace, Filippov Says
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17. Another Move toward a New Totalitarianism: St. Petersburg to Use CCTV Cameras on Streets to Identify Passersby by Ethnicity windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/another-move-toward-new-totalitarianism.html
18. ‘A Well-Executed Closure’ of Russia’s Failing Coal Industry Could Lead to Growth in Many Sectors but Putin Regime Won’t Carry One Out, El Murid Says
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19. ‘Biggest Source of Tension’ in Russian Elites in Last Year is Kremlin’s Purge of Defense Ministry, Komin Says
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20. Moscow Moving toward Restoration of Soviet-Style System of Assigning Graduates to First Jobs, Novichkov Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/moscow-moving-toward-restoration-of.html
21. China’s Expansion of Economic Footprint in Central Asia Sparking Ander and Resistance
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22. In Russia, Men with University Educations Live 8.5 Years Longer than Men without and Women with Degrees live 5.2 Years Longer, ‘To Be Exact’ Portal Reports
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23. Putin’s War in Ukraine has Made Rich Russians Richer but Poorer Ones Poorer, Statistics Show
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24. Family of Ingush Head Benefits from Corruption while 2,000 Men from His Republic Fight in Ukraine windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/family-of-ingush-head-benefits-from.html
25. Russian Jailors Increasingly Demand Inmates Use Only Russian in Correspondence
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26. Global Warming ‘Isolating Cities’ Across Russian North and Threatening Military Facilities and Support of Northern Sea Route windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/global-warming-isolating-cities-across.html
27. Four Factors Combining to Push Central Asia into ‘Chronic Phase of Water Shortage,’ Pritchin Says
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28. Infrastructure Problems Limiting Development of Russian Far East as Transportation Hub. Khrushchalov Says
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29. For First Time Since 2015, Amount of Unpaid Back Wages Employers Owe Workers Jumps in 2024 – and by Over 40 Percent over a Year Earlier
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30. Putin Continues to Call Russia a Federation to Make It Easier for Him to Annex Former Soviet Republics, Shtepa Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/putin-continues-to-call-russia.html
31. Moscow Moves to Strip Dagestan of Fundamental Right of that Most Multi-National Republic
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32. Russia had Almost 600,000 More Deaths than Births in 2024 — and that Doesn’t Include Losses in Ukraine, Rosstat Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/russia-had-almost-600000-more-deaths.html
33. Since Putin Launched His Expanded War in Ukraine, Memories of the 1990s have Again become Central and Contested Issue in Russia, Zavadsky Says
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34. Putin like Hitler Can Be Stopped Only by Force of Arms, Skobov Says
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35. Kremlin Ignores Third Anniversary of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine and For Good Reasons, Russian Analysts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/kremlin-ignores-third-anniversary-of.html
36. Siberian River Diversion May Finally Happen Because Experts Say Russia Needs It Even More than Central Asia Does windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/02/siberian-river-diversion-may-finally.html
37. ‘Russia Returning to Condition USSR was in During Winter of 1952,’ Kalitin Says
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38. Putin Will Suppress Russians who Object to Rapprochement with US, Gallyamov Says
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39. Russians Would Like to Have More Children but Don’t Feel They Can Afford to Have Them, New Polls Suggest
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40. Kazan Tatars have Declined in Number in Central Asia by Almost 50 Percent since End of Soviet Times
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41. Ever Fewer Chechens want to Become Policemen Lest They be Forced to Fight in Ukraine, Observers Say
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42. What People Consider Poverty Varies Widely across Russia’s Regions and Plays a Bigger Role than Many Acknowledge, Doboyko Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/what-people-consider-poverty-varies.html
43. Trump will Stop Supporting Belarusian Democrats against Lukashenka, Moscow Expert Says
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44. ‘AmExit’ Leaves World in Vastly More Dangerous Place and Europe Must Step Up, Akunin Says
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45. Astana’s Plans for River Flowing into Russia Intended to Force Moscow to Send Siberian River Water into Kazakhstan, Baliyev Says
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46. Protests against Building New Mosque in Perm Becoming Increasingly Xenophobic, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says
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47. Milovan Dzhilas’ Classic ‘The New Class’ Precisely Describes the Political and Administrative Elite of Post-Soviet Russia, Expert on Russian Regions Says
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48. ‘Atlantification’ of Arctic Ocean Reducing Ice Cover All the Way to the Bering Straits, New Research Says
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49. Moscow Must Tale Harsh Measures Now to Counter Islamization of Dagestan or Risk an Explosion, Russia’s Nationalities Agency Says
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50. Russian Sociologist Says American Ruling Elite Now Following ‘Typically Soviet Traditions’
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