Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / May 14, 2025

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / May 14, 2025

1. Kremlin Must Be De-Linked from State Power if Nations of Russia are to Have a Future, Rozalskaya Says

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2. Rise of Ethnic Bullying in Russian Schools Reflects Broader Social Trends, Discussions of Russian Experts Suggest windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/rise-of-ethnic-bullying-in-russian.html

3. New University Course on Russian Statehood Confirming Students’ View that Russian State is All about ‘Crude Force,’ Studies Suggest

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4. Russians ‘from the Provinces’ Need to Speak ‘Moscow Russian’ to Succeed in the Capital, Linguists Say

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5. Kremlin’s Take-Over of RAIPON has Left Group a Hollow Shell of What It Once Was, ICIPR Says

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6. Russian Democrats Must Take the Lead in Creating Arrangements for Nations Too Small for Independence or Even a Federal State, Pivovarov Says

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7. Moscow Not Only Behind Increase in Forest Fires in Russia But is Using Them to Justify More Repression, Kuznetsov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/04/moscow-not-only-behind-increase-in.html

8. Lenin Making a Comeback in Russia Today Despite Putin’s Hostility Toward Bolshevik Leader

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9. Treatment of Smaller Minorities by Larger Minorities in Russian Federation Now Subject of Debate

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10. Russian Foreign Minister Gives Imprimatur to New Moscow Book Claiming Lithuanian Nation and Language ‘Do Not Exist’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/russian-foreign-minister-gives.html

11. West has Missed Rise of Putin’s Fascism Because Kremlin Leader is Imposing It Gradually, Inozemtsev Says

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12. Russia has Reduced Infant Mortality but Part of This Gain Reflects Falsification, Medical Experts Say

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13. Putin’s Insistence that Nationalism is ‘the First Stage to Nazism’ is Simply Wrong, El Murid Says

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14. Pro-Kremlin TV Host Urges Wives to Be Patient with Husbands Returning from War and Tolerate Excesses windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/pro-kremlin-tv-host-urges-wives-to-be.html

15. Redrawing of Single-Member Duma Districts Sharpening Conflicts Now and Creating New Uncertainties, Shaburov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/redrawing-of-single-member-duma.html

16. Many Know Non-Russians has Suffered Out of All Proportion from Putin’s War in Ukraine but Few are Aware Many of Them have Protested Against It, Buryat Activist Says

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17. Another Putin Healthcare ‘Optimization’ – Junior Medical Personnel Now to be Allowed to Act as Doctors

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18. Moscow Extends Service Life of Yak-40, Workhorse of Russian Regional Aviation, to 60 Years –and Not Just Because of Sanctions or Production Problems

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19. Shuttle Trade Returns to Russia, Now to Evade Sanctions

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20. Only Now has It Become Obvious that Russia Can’t Have More Guns without Having Less Butter, Shelin Says

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21. Even at Current Rate of Advance, Russia would Need 230 Years to Fully Occupy Ukraine, Experts Say

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22. Moscow Now Recruiting Muslim Tatars for Its Africa Corps Because They’ll Find It Easier to Work with Muslims in Northwest Africa windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/moscow-now-recruiting-muslim-tatars-for.html

23. Multi-Child Russian Families Nearly Three Times as Likely to be Poor than Russian Families as a Whole, Rosstat Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/multi-child-russian-families-nearly.html

24. In 2024, Many Ukrainians who had Switched to Using Ukrainian have Shifted Back to Using Russian, according to Kyiv’s Language Ombudsman

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25. Russia Now Relies on Foreign Producers for More than 98 Percent of Its Machine Tools, Moscow Experts Say

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26. Moscow Expands Attack on Independent Cossacks with Confiscation of Memorabilia in Key Museum

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27. 50 Percent of Russians Expect Positive Changes when War Ends, 30 Percent Expect No Change, and 20 Percent Think Things will Get Still Worse, Survey in Trans-Baikal Finds

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28. Putin will Declare Any Outcome in Ukraine a Victory and His Alone, Gallyamov Says

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29. Kremlin Mulls Making Zhirinovsky’s LDPR the ‘Russian Party’ for 2026 Duma Elections because of Role of Veterans Returning from Ukraine War, ‘Vyorstka’ Says

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30. Russian Health Ministry Wants to Levy Enormous Fines on Med School Graduates who Don’t Work in Their Field

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31. Russia’s Elderly Mostly Women Living Alone with Less Medical and Other Support than They Need, Moscow Experts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/russias-elderly-mostly-women-living.html

32. Russians Now Dying in Numbers Nearly Equal to Those Reached During Covid Pandemic, Raksha Says

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33. Problems in North Caucasus So Complicated that Moscow has Handed the Region to the Siloviki and the Siloviki have Reduced All of Them to Islam, Mukhametov Says

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34. Demographic Losses in RSFSR Hit Far Beyond the Front Lines, Statistics Show

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35. Russian Officialdom Revives Soviet-Era Urban Legends about Threats and Russian People Use Social Media to Spread and Exaggerate Them, Arkhipova Says

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36. Few World War II Veterans in Post-Soviet Countries Remain Alive Now and Almost None will Be by Next Round Anniversary in 2035 windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/few-world-war-ii-veterans-in-post.html

37. Disintegration of Russian Federation after Loss in Ukraine ‘Defeat for Putin’s Empire’ but Not ‘End of Russia,’ Leya and Taskin Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/disintegration-of-russian-federation.html

38. Kremlin Using Russian Community to ‘Manage Popular Anger’ but will Limit Its Activities Lest It Become a Threat to Putin, Russian Nationalist Says

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39. A Second Airport in Russia Becomes a Source of Tension Not Because of Its Name but Because of Its Location

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40. Russian Diplomat Changes Date of VE Commemoration on Svalbard but Not Moscow’s Message

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41. Petersburg Writers Resist Efforts to Force Them into Medinsky’s Organization

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42. Despite Drone Attacks, Russian Officials Still Classifying Location of Bomb Shelters

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43. Iranian President Statement that Iran and Tajikistan are ‘Second Homes for Each Other’ Limited in Meaning

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44. Numerically Small Peoples of Russian North and Siberia have Suffered Vastly More Combat Deaths in Ukraine Relative to Population than have Russian Residents as a Whole

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45. Few Russian Couples Now Living Together Plan to Get Married Anytime Soon or Even Ever, New Poll Finds

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46. Teaching Immigrant Children Russian Not the Panacea the Kremlin Believes, Experts Say

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47. Tatar Youth Organization Formed in Orenburg Last Year Increasingly Active

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48. Moscow Readying New Moves to Further Restrict Ethnic Diasporas

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49. Arctic Council Must Include Russian Indigenous Leaders Now in Exile or It will Be Allowing Moscow to Play an Undeserved Role, Activists Say

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50. In Another Blow to Russia, Finland Planning to Change Its Railways to International Gauge