Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / March 28, 2025

Note to List: Last week I had heart surgery and will be recovering over the next few weeks. As a result, my postings on the Window on Eurasia blog will be both shorter and less frequent. But there is too much of interest just to stop, and so I will soldier on. Paul Goble

1. Warming of Ocean, Not Just of Atmosphere, Behind Loss of Glaciation in Article Littoral, Norwegian Scholars Conclude windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/warming-of-ocean-not-just-of-atmosphere.html

2. Russian Convicts Moscow Forcing to Fight in Ukraine Often Put in Front Lines and are First to Die There, ‘Regional Dimension’ Reports

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3. Putin Can Appoint Outsiders as Heads of Federal Subjects but in ‘Almost a Quarter’ of Them, He Never Has, Russian Specialist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/putin-can-name-outsiders-as-heads-of.html

4. ‘Thirty Years of Democracy in the World have Been Lost,’ Alexiyevich Says

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5. New Russian Law Allows Developers to Build Far Closer to Monuments than Ever Before

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6. Russia Scrambling to Cope with Mounting Shortage of Policemen

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7. Duma Speaker Changes Course Because He Senses Federal Subjects will Soon Gain More Power to Act Independently, Salin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/duma-speaker-changes-course-because-he.html

8. Some but Not All of 700,000 Russians who’ve Fought in Ukraine Will Display Aggression on Returning Home, St. Petersburg Psychiatrist Says

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9. Current Global Conflict Less Among Nations than Within Them, El Murid Says

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10. Moscow Using ‘Technical Breakdowns’ Rather than Formal Blocking of Internet to Isolate Non-Russian Republics and Restive Russian Regions, Experts Say

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11. Dagestan Judge Says Officials Falsifying Elections in Almost Every Possible Way

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12. Russian Interior Ministry Maintaining Data Base of All Opposed to Putin’s War, Tatarstan Supreme Court Says

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13. Yabloko Deputies in St. Petersburg Assembly Protest Plans to Set Up CCTV to Track Residents by Ethnicity http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/yabloko-deputies-in-st-petersburg.html

14. Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Accord Not Universally Popular in Kyrgyz Political Elite

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15. Chechen Bloggers who Oppose Kadyrov Gain in Popularity

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16. Kremlin Tells Russian Media to Stop Talking about ‘Anglo-Saxons’

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17. Post-Fascism, a New Totalitarian Ideology, Now Spreading ‘Especially in Russia and the US,’ Pastukhov Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/post-fascism-new-totalitarian-ideology.html

18. Foreigners Did Not Adopt a Single Russian Child Last Year, for First Time Since Putin Came to Power

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19. Central Asian Migrant Workers Leaving and Moscow Must Compensate by Attracting Workers from Elsewhere, Russian Officials and Experts Say

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20. Moscow Must Reverse Recent Declines in Spending on Arctic Exploration, Kazanin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/moscow-must-reverse-recent-declines-in.html

21. Moscow Begins Crackdown on Telegram Channels Beyond the Ring Road

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22. Combat Deaths among Numerically Small Peoples Even Larger than Reported Because Many have Russian Names, Berezhkov Says

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23. Caspian Sea’s Declining Water Levels Threaten Both Russia’s North-South Project and China’s One Belt-One Road Plan, Experts Say

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24. Comprehensive Bibliography of Online Guides to Tatar Books Published

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25. Those Ready to Accept Russia’s Occupation of Crime as Legitimate Signing Death Warrant for Crimean Tatars, Chubarov Says

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26. Extreme Right Russian Community Militants Now Patrolling Murmansk Streets in Alliance with Local Government

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27. Russia Remains Far More Dangerous than China and West Should Work with Beijing Against It, Inozemtsev Says

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28. For Trump, NATO is about Business Not Security and Kremlin Need Not Pay Attention to Alliance’s Article Five Guarantee, Russian Commentators Say

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29. Moscow Doesn’t See Any Prospects for Siberia and is Shifting Money to Far North, Verkhoturov Says

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30. Russian Regions Closer to the Front Support Putin’s War in Ukraine More than Those Further Away, Survey Shows

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31. Gaynutdin Says Russia’s Justice Ministry has Declared Him ‘Chief Mufti of Russia’ But That Doesn’t Mean What It Might Seem windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/gaynutdin-says-russias-justice-ministry.html

32. Excess Deaths in Russia Up by Almost Eight Percent Last Year over Expectations, in Part Reflecting Combat Losses, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says

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33. Russians Buying 2.5 Times as Many Anti-Depressants as They Did Before Putin Launched his Expanded War in Ukraine windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/russians-buying-25-times-as-many-anti.html

34. Russia’s Martial Arts Clubs Now Radicalizing Muslims

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35. Fearing Environmental Protests are a Political Threat, Putin Creates New and Well-Funded Agency to Help Him Counter Them windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/fearing-environmental-protests-are.html

36. Rise and Fall of Batal-Haji Sufi Order Highlights Unwritten Rules of Putin’s Russia, ‘NeMoskva’ and ‘Fortanga’ Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/rise-and-fall-of-batal-haji-sufi-order.html

37. More than Half of Muscovites Back Matviyenko’s Call to Block Those from Russia’s Regions from Studying at the Capital’s Universities

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38. Population Decline Threatens Not Only Russia’s Economic Development but Its Social Stability, Demographers Surveyed by ‘Nakanune’ News Agency Say

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39. Lennart Meri’s ‘Silverwhite’ which Put Estonia in the Center of His Nation’s Mental Map Finally to Appear in English windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/lennart-meris-silverwhite-which-put.html

40. Estonian Ethnologist who Studied Finno-Ugrics of RSFSR without Being Allowed to Visit Them Recalled, Criticized and Celebrated windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/estonian-ethnologist-who-studied-finno.html

41. Trump Will Get Everything He Wants but Have to Pay in Rubles, Russians Now Joke

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42. Despite Law against Regional Parties, Komi’s Communists are Acting Like One, Showing Vitality of Forces They would Represent, Shtepa Says

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43. Number of Compatriots Returning to Russia Falls to Lowest Level in 14 Years

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44. Since Putin Began His Expanded War in Ukraine, Torture in Russia has Become More Widespread and Vicious, Rights Activist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/since-putin-began-his-expanded-war-in.html

45. Putin’s War Leading Directly to More Fires in Ukraine and Indirectly to More in Russia, Lanshina Says

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46. Despite Current Defeat, Russian Liberals have a Future if They Seek a Parliamentary System in which Regions are the Most Important Actors, Sorkin Says

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47. By Including Ingushetia in New Grozny Bishopric, Moscow Patriarchate Weakens Dagestan and Ingushetia and Helps Chechnya’s Kadyrov

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48. Siltification of Caspian and Volga-Don Waterway Threatens Not Only Transportation but People along Their Shores windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/03/siltification-of-caspian-and-volga-don.html

49. Moscow Launches Major Effort to Combat Ethnic Bullying, a Problem It has Only Rarely Acknowledged

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50. Putin Now Promoting Ivan the Terrible and His Regime as Models for Russia, Khapayeva Says

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