Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 1, 2025
- In New Threat to Non-Russians, Moscow Wants to Stop Calling Their Languages ‘Native’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/in-new-threat-to-non-russians-moscow.html
- Telegram Channels Not as Secure from FSB’s Prying Eyes as Many of Its Users Believe, ‘Important Stories’ Portal Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/telegram-channels-not-as-secure-from.html
- Moscow Project to Clean Up the Volga and Lake Baikal has ‘Failed’ Despite All the Money Spent, Officials Concede windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/moscow-project-to-clean-up-volga-and.html
- Moscow’s Claim that Domestic Wines Now Dominate Russian Market Latest ‘Potemkin Village,’ ‘Versiya’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/moscows-claim-that-domestic-wines-now.html
- Falling Water Levels Forcing Moscow to Dredge Rivers and Ports across Russia, Turning to China and Iran while Struggling to Build More Dredging Ships windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/falling-water-levels-forcing-moscow-to.html
- Russian Officials Now Paying Bounties to Individuals, Groups and Firms which Get Others to Sign Up for Military Service windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-officials-now-paying-bounties.html
- Putin hasn’t Reduced Huge Differences among Regions in State Spending Per Capita, ‘To Be Precise’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/putin-hasnt-reduced-huge-differences.html
- Kremlin Should Focus on Boosting Size of Couples with Children rather than Pushing Those without to Have at Least One, ‘Kommersant’ Editor Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/kremlin-should-focus-on-boosting-size.html
- Russian Increasingly Divided by Ever More Distinct Dialects, Despite Not Having Published Dialect Dictionary in a Decade windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-increasingly-divided-by-ever.html
- In Yet Another Return to Stalinist Principles, Kursk Officials Now Persecuting Even Those Loyal to the Kremlin who Back Putin’s War in Ukraine windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/in-yet-another-return-to-stalinist.html
- In Soviet Times, Internationalism Meant Russification; but It Mustn’t Now, Mari Uver’s Vasiliy Nikolayev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/in-soviet-times-internationalism-meant.html
- Putin Consensus More Likely to be Destroyed by Putin Regime than by the Russian People, Inozemtsev Says https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/putin-consensus-more-likely-to-be.html
- Buryats in RF Should Carry Passports to Avoid Being Misidentified as Immigrants and Abused, Governor Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/buryats-in-rf-should-carry-passports-to.html
- KBR Government Joins Circassian Activists in Opposition to Moscow Plan to Require Anyone Seeking Repatriation to Know Russian windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/kbr-government-joins-circassian.html
- Diverting Siberian River Water to Central Asia ‘Almost Certainly’ Won’t Happen This Century, Zakhvatov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/diverting-siberian-river-water-to.html
- Protests in Altay Kray Likely Puts On Hold Plans to Amalgamate Altay Republic with It windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/protests-in-altay-kray-likely-puts-on.html
- Measles, Whooping Cough and Rubella Skyrocket in Russia Because of Impact of Anti-Vaxxer Groups, Moscow Experts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/measles-whooping-cough-and-rubella.html
- Fertility Rates in Central Asian Cities Fell in Half between 1990 and 2023 to Below Replacement Levels in Some windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/fertility-rates-in-central-asian-cities.html
- Russian-Language Tatar Bloggers Promote Many of the Same Things Tatar-Language Ones Do but Reach a Broader Audience, Kazan Ethnographer Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-language-tatar-bloggers-promote.html
- More Russians Identify as Muslims Now than Did Before Anti-Immigrant Campaign Began, VTsIOM Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/more-russians-identify-as-muslims-now.html
- More than 40 Percent of Russians Now Say Stalin was ‘Most Outstanding Figure of All times and Peoples,’ the Levada Center Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/more-than-40-percent-of-russians-now.html
- Tatarstan Looks to Sakha for Ideas on How to Save Its Own National Language https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/tatarstan-looks-to-sakha-for-ideas-on.html
- All Peoples of Russian Federation ‘United by Common Moral Principles,’ Putin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/all-peoples-of-russian-federation.html
- Russians have Taken Part in Almost 40,000 Protests Since 2022, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russians-have-taken-part-in-almost.html
- To Fill Depleted Ranks of Police Force, Russian Interior Ministry Ready to Accept Less Qualified Candidates windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/to-fill-depleted-ranks-of-police-force.html=
- Democratic Opposition’s Arrogant and Ill-Informed Centralism Pushing Non-Russians from Federalism to Nationalism, Latypova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/democratic-oppositions-arrogant-and-ill.html
- Activists Form Groups to Shame Russian Women who Marry Soldiers for Money Putin’s Given Those fighting for Him Rather than for Love windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/activists-form-groups-to-shame-russian.html
- 20th Century was Time of Ethnic Minorities But 21st is Time of Ethnic Majorities, Tishkov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/20th-century-was-time-of-ethnic.html
- Share of Elderly Varies from 9 to 29 Percent among Russia’s Federal Subjects, Data Show windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/share-of-elderly-varies-from-9-to-29.html
- All Five of Russia’s Parliamentary Parties – Including United Russia — Having Trouble Recruiting Candidates for Regional Elections, ‘Vyorstka’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/all-five-of-russias-parliamentary.html
- Intensifying Water Shortages in Central Asia will Spark Flood of Immigrants from There into Russia, Menzelintsev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/intensifying-water-shortages-in-central.html
- Despite Kremlin’s Insistence, Fascism and Nazism Not One and the Same Thing, Inozemtsev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/despite-kremlins-insistence-fascism-and.html
- Moscow Oblast Experiment Allowing Immigrants who Don’t Know Russian to Work There Doesn’t Extend to Citizens of Former Soviet Republics windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/moscow-oblast-experiment-allowing.html
- Moscow Patriarchate Suffers Another Defeat Abroad – This Time at Holy Mount Athos windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/moscow-patriarchate-suffers-another.html
- Moscow’s Progress in Registering Individuals as Members of Numerically Small Nations May Soon Threaten Larger Ones as Well windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/moscows-progress-in-registering.html
- To Boost Birthrate, Moscow Must Spend More on Families, Something It can’t Do Now Because of Other Demands on the Budget, Russian Medical Specialists Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/to-boost-birthrate-moscow-must-spend.html
- Heavy Equipment Used by Russian Firms in the Arctic Destroying Environment and Life of Indigenous Peoples, ‘Arktida’ Study Concludes windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/heavy-equipment-used-by-russian-firms.html
- Ethnic Russians Face Even More Challenges than Do Non-Russians in Preserving Their Culture, Moscow’s Nationality Policy Chief Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/ethnic-russians-face-even-more.html
- Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Join Protesters in Altai Republic windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/veterans-of-putins-war-in-ukraine-join.html
- Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Must Receive Far Higher Pay than Current Russian Average orThere will Be Problems, Kremlin Official Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/veterans-of-putins-war-in-ukraine-must.html
- Non-Russians Less Likely to Says They Have an All-Russian Civic Identity than are Ethnic Russians, Barinov Concedes windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/non-russians-less-likely-to-says-they.html
- Graves of Russians who Fought in Putin’s War in Ukraine Being Treated with Anything but Respect windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/graves-of-russians-who-fought-in-putins.html
- Despite What Kremlin Thinks, Moscow Shifted Crimea from RSFSR to Ukrainian SSR in 1954 for Economic Rather than Political Reasons, Kolezov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/despite-what-kremlin-thinks-moscow.html
- Russian Rail Postpones Plans for Two-Track Routes in Far East for at Least a Year and Likely Far Longer, Verkhoturov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-rail-postpones-plans-for-two.html
- Russian Yards Can’t Build Replacements for the 70 Percent of Russia’s Merchant Ships More than 25 Years Old, Forcing Moscow to Use ‘Shadow Fleet,’ ‘Novyye Izvestiya’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-yards-cant-build-replacements.html
- Moscow Must Manage Shrinking of Its 800 Small and Mid-Sized Cities or Face Their Collapse, Russian Urbanist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/moscow-must-manage-shrinking-of-its-800.html
- Could Kyrgyz Republic Soon Become First Central Asian State Not Calling Itself ‘a Stan’? windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/could-kyrgyz-republic-soon-become-first.html
- Russian-Ukrainian Talks Lead to Moscow’s Implicit Recognition that It has Political Prisoners windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-ukrainian-talks-lead-to-moscows.html
- Many in North Caucasus and Other Poor Regions Work Off the Clock and So Receive Government Assistance, ‘To Be Precise’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/many-in-north-caucasus-and-other-poor.html
- Since Putin Launched Expanded War in Ukraine, Ever More Russian Companies have Felt Free Not to Pay Workers On Time, ‘Okno’ Survey Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/since-putin-launched-expanded-war-in.html