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

1. China Sending More Water into Kazakhstan via Transborder Rivers, Helping to Overcome Water Shortages There and Winning Friends in the Process

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2. Rostov Plan to Compensate Officials for Bribes They Don’t Take Already Being Dismissed as Unworkable PR Stunt

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3. In Russia Today, Protests about the Environment, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Increasingly Overlap and Re-Enforce One Another, Kirill Medvedev Says

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4. Five Years after 2020 Protests, Lukashenko Using ‘Quiet Terror’ to Deceive Belarusians and Others about How Unpopular and Repressive He is, ‘Vyasna’ Lawyer Says

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5. With Eye on the Future, Kyiv Seeks to Expand Ties with Central Asian Countries

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6. Russian Chauvinism, at ‘Core’ of Putin’s Policies, Costing Moscow Its Influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus and Its Support at Home, Pastukhov Says

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7. Sakha Activists Appeal to Putin to Reverse Moscow’s Plans to Cut Still Further Instruction in Non-Russian Languages

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8. Russians in All Age Groups Want More Personal Freedom but a Strong Hand at the Helm, New Institute of Sociology Study Says

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9. Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine Now has Almost as Many Parishes and Far More Adherents than Does Moscow Church There

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10. Putin Told Germans in 1994 that Eastern Ukraine and Northern Kazakhstan had ‘Always Been Part of the Russian State’

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11. Another Nail in the Coffin of Russian Villages – Rural Post Offices Closing Across the Country windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/another-nail-in-coffin-of-russian.html

12. Hundreds of Villages in Russian Regions Disappearing, Never to Return, ‘Federal Press’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/hundreds-of-villages-in-russian-regions.html

13. Use of Word ‘Undesirable’ in Ever More Contexts Both Reflects Putin’s Policies and Helps Him Achieve His Goals, Arkhipova Says

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14. Russian Government Making Plans to Shift Headquarters of Large Corporations Out of Moscow

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15. Russia hasn’t Treated Invalids from Earlier Wars Well and isn’t Set to Do Better for Those who’ve Suffered Horrific Wounds in Putin’s War Now, Kanygin Says

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16. Lukashenka has Repressed More than 500,000 Belarusians, Not just the 7000 Convicted in Courts Since 2020 and the More than 1,000 Behind Bars Now, BelPol Says

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17. Toponym War Breaks Out between Moscow and Baku

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18. Putin’s Revolution May be Slow But It Very Much is a Revolution, Lea and Taskin Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/putins-revolution-may-be-slow-but-it.html

19. Russia Does Not Recognize Any Right to Revolt Even if State Blocks Other Means of Redressing Grievances, ‘First Department’ Says

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20. Officials to Call a Place that Sent to Ukraine Large Share of Men to Fight and Die in Ukraine ‘a Village of Military Valor’

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21. Chuvash Artist Struggles Against ‘Museumified’ National Culture Moscow Seeks to Impose on Her People and Other Nations in the Empire

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22. Central Asian Elites Continue to Use Russian on the Internet while Central Asian Peoples Increasingly Use Their Native Languages, Bugin Info Reports

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23. Nearly 130 Mid-Sized Russian Cities with Almost 3.5 Million Residents May Soon Cease to Exist, Moscow Researchers Say

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24. FSB Raids Underground Armament Firms in 51 Federal Subjects

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25. Moscow Should have a 100-Year Plan for Demography, Not the 10-Year Plan It has Now, Demographer in Russian Far East Says

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26. Anecdotes in Russia about Ethnicity have Changed Their Targets and Become Far Nastier, Khazgayeva Says

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27. Moscow to Slash Funding for Shipbuilding to Pay for Putin’s War in Ukraine

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28. Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Represent a Dangerous Health Threat: Many have HIV or Other Infections and aren’t being Treated

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29. Kalmyk Buddhist Leader Now in Mongolian Emigration who Denounced Putin’s War in Ukraine Reflects on His Life and Achievements

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30. Russians Outraged Kazakhstan Wants Consultations on Volga River Flow into Caspian windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/russians-outraged-kazakhstan-wants.html

31. Moscow Court Prohibits Landlords from Declaring that They will Rent ‘Only to Muslims’ windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/moscow-court-prohibits-landlords-from.html

32. Narrowly Ethnic Approaches Undermined Two Earlier Attempts at Federalism in Rusia, Leading to Revival of Empire, and are Threatening to Do So Again, Shtepa Warns

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33. Moscow has Cut Back Release of Data Across the Board This Year but Especially on Demography, ‘To Be Precise’ Says

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34. Central Asia Only Region of the World Where None of the Countries has Direct Access to Oceans

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35. Depopulation of Most Regions in Russia ‘Direct Result of Free Market Forces’ Moscow isn’t Countering, Sergeyev Says

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36. Climate Change Behind Increase in Forest Fires in Russian North, Krasnoyarsk Scholars Say https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/climate-change-behind-increase-in.html

37. If Siberian River Water isn’t Diverted to Central Asia, 100 Million Refugees from There will Flood into Russia, Tashkent Scholar Says

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38. Russian Officials Call on Indigenous Peoples of North to Turn in Weapons and Ammunition to Help Putin’s War in Ukraine

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39. Since 2020, Lukashenka has Made Belarus Ever Less Free But Still Unbowed, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Says

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40. Could US-Run Zengezur Transit Zone Become Danzig Corridor of the 21st Century and Trigger a World War? Some in Moscow and Tehran Think So

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41. Armenians, Georgians, and Central Asians Vary in Response to Yerevan-Baku Settlement windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/armenians-georgians-and-central-asians.html

42. Children of Migrants in the Russian Federation Less Attached to Their Ethnicity and More Maladjusted to Society, New Study Finds

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43. By Invading Ukraine, Putin has Accelerated the Death of the Russian Empire but Not in the Way Many have Been Suggesting, Portnikov Says

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44. Algae Growth in Arctic Lakes Another Reason Arctic Warming Faster than Expected – and Why Other Regions Will Too, Norwegian Researchers Say

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45. Lukashenka has Increased Repression Since 2020 but That has Also Increased Commitment of Those Opposed to Him to Keep Up the Fight, New Survey Shows

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46. New Tugboat Moscow Said was to Be a Key Part of Russia’s Arctic Plans Capsizes and Sinks Before Leaving Yards

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47. Russian Fleet Couldn’t Rescue Sailors in the Event of Another Kursk Disaster in the Arctic, Lawyer for Families of Those who Died 25 Years Ago Says

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48. Since Putin Launched His Expanded War in Ukraine, ‘Fear and Silence’ have Become the Lot of Finno-Ugric Peoples in the Russian Federation, Estonian Scholar Says

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49. More than Half of Russians have Heard of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact’s Secret Protocols, But Far Fewer Younger Age Groups, Levada Center Polls Show

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50. Moscow Must Fight to Prevent Ethnic Russians from Re-Identifying as Members of Other Nations, Selivanov Says

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