Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / April 27, 2025
1. Freedom of Speech Now Far More Important for Russians than It was at Start of Putin’s Reign – and That’s a Problem for the Kremlin Leader, Gallyamov Says
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2. Moscow Increases Repression of Erzya, Seeking to Crush that Nation’s Traditional Ruling Structure and Replace It with One the Center Controls
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3. Kremlin Continues Moves against Telegram Channels in a Deniable Way and Far from Moscow windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/kremlin-continue-moves-against-telegram.html
4. Kremlin Helping Lukashenka Repress Belarusians by Including More than 4700 of Them on Russian Wanted List
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5. Putin’s Russia Now ‘an Empire on Autopilot’ whose Fragmentation Must Be Overcome or whose Disintegration is Inevitable, Siberian Activist Says
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6. Russia Lacks Enough Ethnic Specialists to Address Nationality Issues, Duma Told windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/russia-lacks-enough-ethnic-specialists.html
7. Embarrassment, Anger, and Pride Prompting Chuvash Activists to Try to Save Their Language windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/embarrassment-anger-and-pride-prompting.html
8. Kyiv Views Middle Volga and North Caucasus as Likely to Be First Regions to Become Independent of Moscow
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9. Russia Launches First Super Icebreaker with No Foreign Components
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10. Russians as Old as 60 May Soon Be Counted as ‘Young,’ Possibly Presaging Radical Increase in Retirement Ages
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/russians-as-old-as-60-may-soon-be.html
11. Conflict between Estonian Government and Moscow Church Intensifies
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/conflict-between-estonian-government.html
12. With Talk of Peace, Russians Massively Signing Up for Military Service Apparently Hoping to Get Big Bonuses and Credit for Volunteering at Less Risk of Having to Fight
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13. ‘Yes, There was Sex in the USSR’ Focus of New Book-Length Study
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14. Russian and Chinese Aggressiveness an Objective Requirement of Their Rulers and ‘a Kind of Rebirth of Leninist Idea of World Revolution,’ Savvin Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/russian-and-chinese-aggressiveness.html
15. Three Buryats Named to Senior Positions in Chukotka, with One Even Changing Her Name Beforehand
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16. Crime Far Not Most Serious Threat Veterans Returning from Ukraine Represent, Russian Commentator Says
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17. Birthrates in North Caucasus have Now Fallen to Below All-Russian Level
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18. Ambulance Services Failing to Get Russians to Hospitals Made More Distant by Putin’s Healthcare ‘Optimization’ Plan
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19. Ingush Committee Asks Major IT Companies to Support National Language by Providing Translation Function
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20. Regional Restrictions on Alcohol Sales in Russia Not Leading to Serious Decline in Consumption of Hard Liquor or Surrogates
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21. Putin Regime has Transformed ‘Foreign Agents’ into Full-Blown ‘Enemies of the People, Record Shows
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22. In Some Parts of Russia, Fewer than Half of Residents Rate Inter-Ethnic Relations as Good, Magomedov Says
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23. MGIMO, ‘the Hogwarts of Russia’s Foreign Policy Elite,’ Teaches Its Students to ;Speak Diplomacy’ but ‘Practice Coercion,’ One who Studied There but Left Says
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24. Russians are Creating Their Own Kind of Civil Society by Taking Actions to Get Around Foolish Decisions of the Powers that Be, Yury Dolgoruky Telegram Channel Says
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25. Moscow TV News Can ‘Flip Its Messages Overnight’ Because It Lacks any Ideological Constraints, Shepelin Says
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26. Moscow’s Failure to Build and Repair Roads on which Russia Increasingly Relies Exacerbating Tensions between Center and the Federal Subjects, Grashchenkov Says
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27. Russian Community is Becoming the ‘Orthodox Popular Front,’ Lunkin Says
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28. Moscow Must Forcibly Assimilate Migrants who Want to Remain in Russia Permanently, Ukhov Says
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29. Russian Commentators Adopt Updated Tactic of Soviet-Style Attacks on ‘Bourgeois Falsifiers’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/russian-commentators-adopt-updated.html
30. Updated Nansen Passport System Needed Because Putin Regime’s Approach to Emigres Puts Many in Impossible Situation, Shtepa Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/updated-nansen-passport-system-needed.html
31. Niqab Must be Banned in Russia Because It’s Being Used for Criminal Purposes, Silantyev Says
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32. Kremlin to Unite Nenets AD with Arkhangelsk Oblast But Only After Carefully Preparing Ground, ‘Nezygar. Telegram Channel Says
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33. Kazakhstan and Karelia — Two Cases of ‘Stalinist Nation Building’ that Still Resonate Today windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/kazakhstan-and-karelia-two-cases-of.html
34. Central Asian Countries Signal Their Re-Orientation by Foreign Languages They Promote windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/central-asian-countries-signal-their-re.html
35. Slavery in Russia Far More Widespread than Moscow Admits or Many Acknowledge, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says
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36. School Problems in Areas Far from Major Cities in Central Asia Undermining Unity of Titular Nations and Threatening Survival of Minorities
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37. RF Regions’ Promoting Teenage Pregnancies Pushing Them Up among Central Asian Migrants but Not among Ethnic Russians, ‘Yury Dolgoruky’ Telegram Channel Says
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38. New Technologies Helping Russian Authorities to Solve More and Ever Older Cold Cases, Officials Say
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39. CIS Today ‘an Anachronism that Must Be Reformed, Disappear, or have Russia as Its Only Member,’ Dikusar Says
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40. Putin’s War Threatens the Survival of Russian Federation Even if a Settlement is Reached windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/putins-war-threatens-survival-of.html
41. Numerically Small Peoples of North and Far East Seek Not Independence but Transformation of Russian Federation, Orcas Island Declaration Says
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42. Environmental Protests have Come to Moscow and are Being Exploited by Radical Communists and Foreign Enemies, Political Analyst Says
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43. Sixty Percent of Population Points in Siberia Lack Year-Round Road or Rail Connections, Russian Federation Council Says
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44. Russian State Authority is ‘Sacred’ and the Duty of Russians is to Obey, Kremlin Aide Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/russian-state-authority-is-sacred-and.html
45. Another Sign – This Time in Altai Republic – Moscow May be About to Restart Regional Amalgamation
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/another-sign-this-time-in-altai.html
46. Russia Least Religious in Practice among Predominantly Orthodox Christian Countries Despite Relatively High Levels of Declared Orthodox Identity, Surveys Show
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47. Russia has Its Own Form of Gerrymandering with Moscow Redrawing Electoral Districts to Weaken Urban Voters Inclined to Support Opposition, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says
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48. Death Spiral of Russia’s Coal Industry Brought Forward a Decade by Kremlin Miscalculations and Putin’s War in Ukraine, Economist Says
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49. Insurrection of Russian Deserters Held in Krasnodar Highlights Large and Growing Problem for Moscow, Rights Activists Say
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50. Non-Russians will Protest if Moscow Adopts Law Declaring Russian Their Native Language, Sakha Leaders Say
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