Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 16, 2025

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 16, 2025

1. Kremlin wants Russia’s Parliamentary Parties to Win Votes of Returning Veterans to Avoid The Emergence of Some Soldiers Party, Moscow Commentator Says

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2.     Officials in an Arkhangelsk Oblast District Ask to Have Their Territory Transferred to Komi Republic because ‘We Want to Live Better’

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3.     Moscow Policies on Single Parent Families Contributing to Rise in Divorce Rate, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Analyst Says

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4. Moscow will Now Move to Abolish Non-Russian Republics in Name of Defending Ethnic Russians, Activists from Non-Russian National Movements Say

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5.     Russian Officials Unlikely to Bring Charges Against Those who Attack North Caucasians, Sending a Message Likely to Lead to More, SOVA Experts Suggest

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6.     Red Square Mausoleum Symbol of Eternal Russia Not Something Alien, Eurasianist Says

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7.     Putin’s ’40-Year-Old Managers’ Increasingly Important Players in His System, Bestuzhev Says

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8.     Azerbaijani Diasporas Exist in More than 20 Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation

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9.     ‘Green Colonialism’ Threatens Numerically Small Peoples of the Russian North, Activists Say

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10.  ‘Wishful Thinking’ Dominates Discussions of Post-Russia Future in Dangerous Ways, Shtepa Says

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11.  Kamchatka Governor Calls for Ending Privileges Indigenous Peoples Now Have

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12.  Tensions between Russia and Its Neighbors will Continue to Deteriorate as Long as Moscow Behaves as if the USSR Still Existed, Azerbaijani Political Scientist Says

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13.  Opposition to Putin’s Municipal Reform Greater East of the Urals for Good Reason: Population Centers There are Far from One Another

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14.  A Dangerous Statistic: Moscow is Sending Twice as Much Per Capita to Chechnya than to the Rest of the Russian Federation

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15.  To Hide Russia’s Demographic Decline, Rosstat Stops Publishing Demographic Statistics, Harming Russia But Not Preventing Tracking This Collapse

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16.  Russia’s Much-Ballyhooed New Nuclear Icebreaker Sidelined Because Murmansk Lacks Dock Needed for Repairs

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17.  Moscow’s Policies Compounding rather than Countering Impact of Drought that has Already Created Food Shortages and Sent Prices for Potatoes and Other Foodstuffs Soaring

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18.  Having Alienated Both Armenia and Azerbaijan, Moscow Can No Longer Play Its Traditional Divide and Rule Approach to in the South Caucasus, Inozemtsev Says

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19.  Moscow Wants to Homogenize Friendship of the Peoples Houses in Regions and Republics

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20.  Common Assumptions about Evolution of Soviet Cultural Policy Fundamentally Misleading, Incomplete and Wrong, Mitrokhin Says

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21.  Shariat Patrol, Active for Six Years in Kabardino-Balkaria, Charged with Extremism

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22.  ‘Arctic Exceptionalism,’ Born in the Gorbachev Era, Comes to an End

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23.  Moscow Will Learn that Releasing the Genie of Aggressive Nationalism is Easy but Putting It Back in the Bottle is Hard, Memorial Expert Says

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24.  Self-Censorship and Denunciations Explain Why Some would Like to Return to Soviet-Style Censorship, Shulika Says

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25.  Russian Repression Prompts Finno-Ugric Movement to Declare a US City Its Cultural Capital for 2026

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26.  Authoritarianism is like a Virus which Doesn’t Raise Temperatures but Rather Lowers Immunity, Nevzlin Says

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27.  Share of Russians who Regularly Tell Anecdotes has Risen 50 Percent Since Putin Came to Power with Most of that Rise Coming in the Last Several Years, Levada Center Says

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28.  Over the Last Six Years, Putin Visited Russia’s Federal Subjects More than Twice as Often as He has Gone Abroad, ‘Vedomosti’ Says

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29.  Climate Change Affecting Different Parts of Russia Very Differently, Academy of Sciences-Higher School of Economics Study Says

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30.  KPRF Rehabilitates Stalin and Becomes Even More an Adjunct to Putin Regime

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31.  Moscow Outlet Dismisses Kazakh Genocide as ‘a Myth’

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32.  Moscow Finally Planning to Open Drug Rehabilitation Centers for Veterans Returning from Ukraine

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33.  Serious Crime in North Caucasus Rises to Highest Level since 2010

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34.  Kremlin Classifies Information Not Only about Demography but Also about Russian Foreign Policy

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35.  Falling Caspian Water Levels Cuts into Russian Shipping, Forcing Moscow Again to Focus on Rail Routes West and East of that Sea

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36.  Moscow Now Feels It can Again Make Changes in Russian Regions without Risk to Itself, Kynyev Says

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37.  Domestic Policy Failings Not Just Foreign Influence Behind Many of Russia’s Nationality Problems, Duma Deputy Says

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38.  Since Putin Came to Power, 32 Governors have Been Charged with Crimes

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39.  Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Under Repair Since 2017 May Finally Be Scrapped

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40.  Dissident Orthodox Priest in Kazakhstan Moves to Create Alternative to Moscow Church There

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41.  Putin’s War in Ukraine Far from Only Reason Russia’s Prison Population is Declining and Penal Institutions are Closing, ‘Important Stories’ Says

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42.  Movements of Indigenous Peoples in Russian Federation Expand Cooperation

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43.  Marauders in Russian Uniforms Running Amok in Belgorod Oblast Where Many Villages Don’t Have Police and Prosecutors haven’t Opened Cases Against Them

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44.  Russians Now Marrying Almost Three Years Later than They Did Only Four Years Ago, Registration Office Figures Show

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45.  Central Asian Migrants Radicalizing Russia’s Own Muslims, Russian Nationalist Commentator Says

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46.  Fertility Rates in Central Asian Countries Declining but All Remain Well Above Replacement Levels

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47.  Russia’s New Ideology Must Create ‘an Ethnic Russian Yakut, an Ethnic Russian Tatar, and an Ethnic Russian Buryat,’ Karaganov Says

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48.  Russia’s New Military-Related ‘Middle Class’ has Stopped Growing and Its Members are Beginning to Be Affected by Inflationary Pressures, Moscow Analyst Says

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49.  Since 2022, Moscow has Stopped Publishing Far More than Just Demographic and Diplomatic Data

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50.  Moscow’s Program for Repatriation has Collapsed – Fewer are Returning and Many who Use It Aren’t Russians

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