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

1. Azerbaijan Expanding Naval Cooperation with NATO and Turkey

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2. Petition Opposing Restoring Name of Stalingrad to Volgograd Garners Nearly 2,000 Signatures in First 24 Hours

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3. Russians Seeking to Memorialize Stalin but Blocked by Officials Now Putting Statues on Private Land

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4. Tashkent Worried about Treatment of Uzbeks in Russia Because It Fears They’ll Come Home, Russian Commentator Says

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5. Sale and Destruction of Building Used as Chechen Mosque in Dagestan Exacerbates Tensions There

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6. Russian Officials Clearly Worried People in Regions and Republics May Be First to Question Putin’s War Once It Ends, Latypova Says

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7. Men Returning from Putin’s War in Ukraine Used to Resolving Their Problems with Force and to Having High Incomes, Dmitry Gudkov Says

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8. Gap Between Number of Children Russians Would Like and the Number They Expect to be Able to Have Growing, VTsIOM Poll Finds

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9. Caspian Sea Dying and Alreading Threatening Offshore Oil Platforms, Transit and Existing Ports, Experts Say

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10. Young Russians Want Politicians to Meet Them Face to Face Rather than On Line, Urals Study Finds

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11. Future Transport Network in Siberia will Depend On Whether It has Its Own Center and Produces Finished Goods or Remains a Source of Raw Materials, Verkhoturov Says

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12. Veterans Returning from Ukraine War Already Sparking Ethnic Clashes in North Caucasus windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/veterans-returning-from-ukraine-war.html

13. Russia Risks Losing More than 100 Billion US Dollars in Infrastructure as Result of Melting of Permafrost

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14. Putin’s Federal Districts at 25 – Important but Not the Transformative Institutions Many Expected

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15. In Russian Federation, Miscarriages Still Counted as Abortions

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16. New Study of Russian Attitudes on War in Ukraine Suggests Kremlin Hopes to Reach Out Even to Those Not Enthusiastic about Conflict, Bulatov Says

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17. Kyiv Gains a Small but Important Victory in Istanbul: Its Delegation Brings a Translator windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/kyiv-gains-small-but-important-victory.html

18. Russia’s Statistical Agency Stops Publishing Most Demographic Data

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19. Activists Protest Decision to Combine Ethnic Studies Section with Russian History Chair at Kabardino-Balkar University

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20. Russians Support Idea of Replacing at Least Some Officials with AI, SuperJob Poll Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/russians-support-idea-of-replacing-at.html

21. The Death of Rural Russia Reflects Both Natural Shifts and Political Decisions, Trifonov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-death-of-rural-russia-reflects-both.html

22. Kremlin Understands Importance of Russia’s Indigenous Peoples Better than Russian Opposition Does, Sulyandziga Says

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23. Moscow Must Establish Paid ‘Holiday for Sex’ to Boost Russian Birthrate, Duma Deputy Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/moscow-must-establish-paid-holiday-for.html

24. Seven Countries have Recognized Soviet Deportation of Crimean Tatars in May 1944 as an Act of Genocide, and Crimean Tatar Activists are Pressing for Even Broader International Recognition of This Crime

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25. Russian Justice Minister Says Strengthening the State Must Take Precedence over Protecting the Rights of Citizens or Ensuring the Rule of Law

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26. More than 40 Percent of Russians Say Moscow Seeks to Solve Its Problems at the Expense of the Regions and Republics, Surveys Show

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27. Kazakhstan May Soon Displace Other Central Asian Countries as Chief Supplier of Migrant Workers to Russia – and Expert Suggests That Will be a Good Thing

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28. Iran to Resume Drilling for Oil and Gas on Caspian Seabed

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29. Saudi Reduction in Haj Visas Hitting Some Parts of Russia Far Harder than Others

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30. ‘Traditional’ Large Families were Destroyed in Russia a Century Ago in Soviet Times, Demographer Says

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31. Moscow Pupils Call for Adding Russian Language to ’17 Traditional Values of Russia’

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32. Kadyrov Not Following Chechen or Islamic Traditions with His Blood Feuds but Violating Both, Experts Say

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33. Almost Half of Russia’s LGBTQ+ Residents Faced Violence or Threats Last Year, Survey Finds

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34. Russia Can’t Attract or Hold Cadres for the Far North Because Moscow is Failing to Promote Infrastructure Development, Duma Told

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35. Making Kabardino-Balkar State University Autonomous would be ‘Disastrous,’ Activists Say

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36. One Central Asian in Six Lives in a Village Not Having Basic Infrastructure or Linked to Outside World by Good Roads

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37. Circassian Activists Denounce KBR Efforts to Block Commemoration of 1864 Deportation and Note Support for Marking that Anniversary Growing

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38. Repression in Russia Becoming ‘Ever More Massive, Harsh and Unpredictable,’ Memorial Says

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39. Naval Competition Intensifies on the Caspian

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40. Share of Russians who Say They Don’t Want Children has Tripled since 2005, Polls Show

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41. Kremlin Returns Crosses to Its Emblem, Opening the Way for Crosses to Appear on State Symbols More Generally

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42. Migrant Workers Russia has Expelled Committing More Crimes on Return to Their Homelands, Bastrykhin Says, Thus Confirming His Negative View of Them

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43. Moscow’s Plan to Rate Governors by Increases in Birthrates Already Having Problematic and Unintended Consequences

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44. If the USSR Still Exists, Then Russia Doesn’t and Putin is President of God Knows What, Ukrainian Commentator Says

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45. Russian Scholars Emigrating at Rate as High as in First Post-Soviet Years, HSE Study Says http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/russian-scholars-emigrating-at-rate-as.html

46. Flooding East of the Urals Getting More Attention, But Drought in Center and South of Russia has More Serious Long-Term Consequences, ‘Versiya’ Says

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47. St. Petersburg Forum Clarified Whom Putin’s Dictatorship is For and Whom It is Against, Pastukhov Says

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48. Reported Life Expectancy Figures in Parts of Russia Unreliable Because of Data Shortcomings and Outright Falsification, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says

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49. As Cost of Registered and Taxed Alcoholic Beverages Rises, Russians are Brewing and Drinking More Moonshine, ‘Novosti’ Reports

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50. Moscow Now Going After Not Only Those who Oppose It but Even Those who Don’t Support It with Sufficient Enthusiasm, ‘Russia in Jail’ Expert Says

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