Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 13, 2025
1. Spread of HIV in Russia Now So Widespread Makes that Threat of New Outbreaks Exists in at Ever-Increasing Number of that Country’s Federal Subjects
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2. ‘Russia Can’t Build Even Atomic Power Plants without Migrant Workers,’ ‘Svobodnaya Pressa’ Says
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3. What Some Call the Opposition is Really Russia’s Updated Version of Britain’s ‘Angry Young Men’ of the 1950s, Travin Says
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4. Orthodox Christian Russians Must Not Marry Muslims Lest Russia Become an Islamic State, Russian Orthodox Prelate Says
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5. 565,000 More Migrants Entered Russia than Left in 2024, Reducing Overall Population Decline to Only 31,000, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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6. 800,000 Russians Dying from Heart Disease Each Year, Many of Whom Might have Been Saved had They been Able to See a Cardiologist in Time, Galkin Says
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/05/800000-russians-dying-from-heart.html
7. Neo-Communist and Neo-Soviet Regimes Both Descend from Soviet System But, Despite Similarities, are Fundamentally Different, Savvin Says
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8. Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic Recalled on Anniversary of Its Founding in 1919 windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/ukrainian-far-eastern-republic-recalled.html
9. The Other Tatars of Ukraine
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10. Tyva, Praised by Putin for Its High Birthrate, Plagued by Flood of Underground Abortions windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/tyva-praised-by-putin-for-its-high.html
11. Far Fewer Foreigners Fighting in and for Ukraine than Moscow Claims or Experience of Earlier Wars Elsewhere Might Suggest
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12. Neither Repression Nor Propaganda Effort has Ended Environmental Protests in Bashkortostan
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/neither-repression-nor-propaganda.html
13. Central Asia Losing Its Oral Traditions with Passing of Last Aksakals
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/central-asia-losing-its-oral-traditions.html
14. ‘Russian Community’ Now a Country-Wide Vigilante Group Backed by Kremlin But Not Always by Local Law Enforcement
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15. Lienz at 80 – a Tragedy Neither Moscow Nor the West Wants to Acknowledge is Continuing windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/lienz-at-80-tragedy-neither-moscow-nor.html
16. Mercenaries, Missionaries, Miners and Media– What Russian Colonialism in Africa Looks Like windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/mercenaries-missionaries-miners-and.html
17. Russia and China Hope to Reverse Collapse of River Trade Along Their Common Border windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russia-and-china-hope-to-reverse.html
18. Only Dialogue between People and Powers Can Prevent Repetition of Novocherkassk Tragedy, Those Commemorating Anniversary of 1962 Massacre Say
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/only-dialogue-between-people-and-powers.html
19. To Boost Economic and Demographic Growth, Some Duma Deputies Want to Punish Overweight Russians
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20. Moscow’s Closure of ‘Peanut Hole’ in Sea of Okhotsk Shows How Russia will Use Recognition of its Claims to Shelf Area in Arctic
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21. Moscow Rejuvenating General Officer Corps in Russia a Decade after Kyiv Did the Same in Ukraine
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22. Russian Legislators Increasingly Take Their Ideas from Anti-Utopian Literature, Loboyko Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-legislators-increasingly-taken.html
23. Russian Courts Giving Reduced Sentences to Veterans who Beat Their Wives and Children, New Study Finds
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24. More than 40 Percent of Russian Veterans Haven’t Found Jobs on Their Return Home, Golikova Says
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25. Cargo Carried by Russian Railways Suffers Record 10 Percent Decline over Last Year windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/cargo-carried-by-russian-railways.html
26. Declining Water Level of Caspian Adding Land to Three Russian Federal Subjects and Creating New Problems for Moscow
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/declining-water-level-of-caspian-adding.html
27. Short of Cash, Russia’s Federal Subjects Begin Cutting Back Bonuses to Get Men to Sign Up for Service in Putin’s War in Ukraine
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28. Russian School Facilities Remain in Disastrous Shape
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-school-facilities-remain-in.html
29. When Putin’s War in Ukraine Ends, Impact on Russia Could be Economically and Politically Explosive, Rybakova Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/when-putins-war-in-ukraine-ends-impact.html
30. Kremlin Jailing Some Russians to Intimidate All of Them, Sadovskaya Says
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31. Kremlin Again Refers to Monument on Red Square as ‘Mausoleum of Lenin and Stalin’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/kremlin-again-refers-to-monument-on-red.html
32. Putin Proposes Giving Non-Russian Languages Their Own ‘Day’
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33. Putin’s War, Nominally Fought to Defend Traditional Values like Marriage, Sparking Even More Divorces in Russia
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34. Moscow Behind Regions Giving Bonuses to Teenage Russians who have Babies, Head of Duma Committee on Defense of the Family Says
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35. Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Denounces Putin’s Re-Stalinization Policies windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-orthodox-church-outside-of.html
36. Biggest Problem with Rosstat Economic Data Not Falsification but Failure to Collect Representative Samples in Key Sectors, Rybakova Suggests
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37. Support of Ukrainian Churchmen Major Reason Kirill Became Moscow Patriarch, New Book Says
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38. Crimson Wedge in Kuban, Despite Russian Acts of Genocide, has a Ukrainian Future if Kyiv Helps, Activist Says
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39. Drying Up of Caspian Hitting Kazakhstan Hardest among Caspian Littoral States, Astana Experts Say
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40. Russian Cities Want to Introduce Robotic Bureaucrats Because They Work Faster and Never Asks for Pay
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41. Putin’s War in Ukraine Threatens Survival of Soyots who were Beginning to Recover from Soviet Repression
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/putins-war-in-ukraine-threatens.html
42. Russian Community Only Allows People of ‘Slavic Appearance’ Enter Yekaterinburg Agency without Having to Wait in Line
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43. Pro-War Bloggers Tolerated Now but Won’t Be Once War Ends, Filippov Says
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44. Soldiers in Russian Army in Ukraine Involved in Protests at Home Even Before Demobilizing – and Some are Sparking Ethnic Conflicts in the Ranks
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45. Moscow Must Do More to Save Company Towns Because They’re Where Many Defense Plants are Located, ‘Profile’ Says
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46. Central Asia has Just 250 Think Tanks, Most of Which are Small and Don’t Issue Many Reports
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47. Even the Furniture Circassians Use Contributes to Their Longer Life Expectancy, KBR Researchers Say
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48. Three Factors Explain Why There are Environmental Protests in Some Russian Regions but Not in Others, HSE Study Concludes
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49. Failure of Russian Employers to Pay in Timely Fashion Rises to Worst Level Since 2021 windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/failure-of-russian-employers-to-pay-in.html
50. Opposition to Subsidizing Teenage Pregnancy Grows and Russian Regions Cut It Back windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/opposition-to-subsidizing-teenage.html