Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / April 10, 2025

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / April 10, 2025

1. Racism on the Rise in Russia as Moscow Includes Discriminatory Language in Government Contracts, ‘Systema’ Reports

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2. Kremlin Bracing for Chaos and Possible Systemic Collapse when Veterans Return in Large Numbers from Fighting in Ukraine, ‘Faridaily’ Telegram Channel Says

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3. Authoritarian Regimes Like Putin’s have Made Significant Progress in Resolving Feedback Problem, ‘Notes in the Margins’ Telegram Channel Says

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4. Moscow has No Strategy for Developing Siberia and Far East – and the Results are Disastrous, Buryat Economist Says

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5. Indigenous Russia Portal Publishes Five Maps Showing where Native Peoples Live and 70 Places Where They are in Conflict with Russian Companies

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6. Russian Enterprises Now Discussing Whether They are Paying Workers Enough to Keep Them from Going to War, Buketov Says

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7. Gubernatorial Appointment in Nenets AD Points to Its Amalgamation with Arkhangelsk Oblast, ‘Mari Uver’ Portal Says

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8. Russian Community Should Avoid Becoming Too Close to Local Officials but Retain Ties to Kremlin, Kholmogorov Says

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9. Moscow’s Promotion of Abortion Bans and Early Births More about Pleasing Older Generation of Putin Voters than about Raising Birthrates, Economist Says

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10. Russia Faces Collapse in Oil Prices like the One which Destroyed the USSR, Economist Says

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11. New Russian Film Explores How Last Speaker of Ossetian Copes Using AI Robot

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12. Non-Russian Republics Appear Likely to Lose Their Education Ministries

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13. Moscow Seeks New Northern Sea Route Partners as China Signals It May Play a Smaller Role

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14. Life Expectancy for Russians at Age 55 Jumped after Covid But Only Because Many of the Weakest Died, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says

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15. Putin hasn’t Attacked the Free Masons Despite Long History of Russian Hostility toward Them, Anonymous Writer Says in ‘The Moscow Times’

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16. Ukrainian Government Calls on Nations of the World to Recognize Circassian Genocide

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17. Moscow to Expand Effort to Defend Rights of Russian Compatriots in Baltic Countries windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/moscow-to-expand-effort-to-defend.html

18. Number of Russians Living in Poverty Really Falling but by Far Less than Moscow Claims, ‘To Be Precise’ Says

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19. Moscow Plans to Restrict Ability of Russians to Seek Medical Treatment beyond Their Own Region of Residence

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20. Kremlin’s New Demography Strategy Document Calls for Spending Enormous Sums but Not for Slowing Russia’s Population Decline, Demographers Say

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21. Moscow Further Tilts the Scales Against Those Charged with Crimes to Ensure It Collects Fines and Exercises Greater Leverage over Businesses and Individuals

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22. New Law on Local Administration Leaves Population with Almost No Way to Participate in Political Life, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says

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23. For First Time Ever, More Muslims Marked End of Ramadan in St. Petersburg than Did in the Russian Capital, Statistics Show

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24. Russians Attracted to Pro-Regime Media Outlets in Part Because They Offer More Positive Messages, CEDAR Study Says

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25. In March 2025, Russian Forces Gained Less Ground in Ukraine than in Any Month Since June 2024, the Agentstvo News Agency Says

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26. Departure of Immigrant Workers Not Leading to More Jobs and Higher Pay for Russians, ‘Versiya’ Says

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27. Covid Still Killing Russians and Kremlin Still Using Covid Restrictions to Ban Public Protests, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says

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28. Russians Worried about Rise of ‘Closed Migrant Enclaves’ but Don’t Want to Call Them Ghettos

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29. Putin Putting Survival of Russian Federation at Risk by Exploitation of Regions, Kachalov Says

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30. Russia Now has Only 50,000 km of Fully-Maintained Internal Waterways, Far Less than when Putin came to Power

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31. Like Its Tsarist and Soviet Predecessors, Russian Federation has had a Hard Time Creating a Structure to Oversee Ethnic Issues

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32. To Be Recognized as a Compatriot, One Should have to Know Only One Republic Language but Be Ready to Study Russian on Return, Khatazhukov Says

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33. Indigenous Peoples of Russian North the Canaries of Global Warming

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34. Nearly 90 Percent of Russians Say They’ve Been Affected by the Growing Shortage of Doctors in Their Country

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35. Ice Will Remain a Problem on Northern Sea Route for at Least 25 More Years, NSR Administrator Tells Putin

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36. Russian Business ‘Natural Opponent’ of Putin and Thus Should be the Ally of Its Political Opponents, Inozemtsev Says

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37. Moscow Patriarchate Taking Full Control of Religious Life in Occupied Territories of Ukraine

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38. Russians’ Attachment to the State Much Stronger than Their Respect for Putin, Shelin Says

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39. Russians Want to Develop Arctic but Fear Environmental Problems, New Survey Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/russians-want-to-develop-arctic-but.html

40. Chuvash Call on Ukraine to Label Russian Actions in Their Republic a Genocide

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41. Environmental Activism, Often a Seedbed of Political Movements, Continues to Expand in Russia Despite Increasing Repression

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42. Veterans Joining Radical Russian Nationalist Groups in Increasing Numbers, Bolstering Power of the Latter and Threatening Radicalization, Verkhovsky Says

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43. Anti-Immigrant Campaign Began Earlier than Most Think and without Kremlin Direction They Assume, Verkhovsky Says

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44. ‘Tens of Thousands of Russian Soldiers’ have Deserted Their Units Since 2022. ‘Barents Observer’ Says

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45. Derbent to Erect Synagogue, Mosque and Orthodox Church Next to One Another  windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/derbent-to-erect-synagogue-mosque-and.html

46. Invisibility of Wives of Top Russian Politicians Increasingly Sets Pattern for Wives of Governors, Mileshkina and Fetisov Say

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47. ‘Russian Opposition at Times More Hostile to Siberian Minorities than are the Authorities,’ Vyushkova Says

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48. Young Russians Shouldn’t Be Treated as Separate from Russian Society and Will Converge with It as They Age, Volkov Says

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49. Russia’s Regional Leaders have Taken the Potemkin Village Approach to New Heights Under Putin

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50. Ever More Russian Companies Behind in Paying Their Workers, Harming Employees and Other Employers

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