Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / September 21, 2025
1. 1.5 Million Russians Members of ‘Traditional’ Religious Sects, and Many Times More are in New Non-Religious Ones, Experts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/15-million-russians-members-of.html
2. Russia’s Pro-War Volunteers Say ‘Nobody Wants to Help the Army Anymore’
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3. Russian Government and Business Behind Transforming an Entire Federal Subject into an Ethnic Enclave, Kabanov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/08/russian-government-and-business-behind.html
4. Russian Experts Outraged by Azerbaijan President’s Programmatic ‘Al-Arabiya’ Interview, a Turning Point in Baku’s Relations with Moscow
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5. Kremlin Playing Down Its Failures across Post-Soviet Space, Chernikov Says
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6. Teachers in 90 Percent of Russia’s Federal Subjects Earn on Average Less than the Country’s Minimum Wage – and in Some Less than a Quarter of that Amount
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7. Moscow Courts Ban Ads Saying Owners will Rent or Sell Only to Certain Ethnic or Religious Groups
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8. Vologda Governor’s Fight against Abortions has in Fact Pushed Number of Births Down, Political Opponent of Filimonov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/vologda-governors-fight-against.html
9. Russia’s Federal Subjects Introducing Facial Recognition Cameras before Providing Residents with Gas, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/russias-federal-subjects-introducing.html
10. More than a Third of Those who have Disappeared during Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine Likely Still Alive, Memory Project Lawyer Says
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11. Over the Last Two Years, Number of Pupils Beginning School has Fallen 25 Percent, from Two Million to 1.5 Million, Russian Government Acknowledges
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12. Many Predominantly Ethnic Regions and Two Heavily Ethnic Russian Non-Russian Republics Prepare to Subsidize Teenagers who Get Pregnant
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13. Patrushev Talks about Future of Arctic Trade Because There’s ‘Little Positive’ to Report about It in Recent Past, Verkhoturov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/patrushev-talks-about-future-of-arctic.html
14. Liv, a Balto-Ugric Language Often Said to have Died, Now Making a Comeback, Linguist Says
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15. Russia’s Regional Scientific Centers Want to Form Association and Press for More Support Their Work
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16. Moscow to Use Artificial Intelligence to Censor New Books
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17. Births in Belarus have Declined by 50 Percent since 2016, Putting It on Track to See Its Population Halved by 2100 windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/births-in-belarus-have-declined-by-50.html
18. Moscow Says Russia has Become World Leader in Prosthetics since Start of Expanded War in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Official Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/moscow-says-russia-has-become-world.html
19. Russian Troops in Ukraine Now Suffering from ‘Uncontrolled HIV Epidemic’
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20. Federalism in Russia of the 1990s Proved to Be ‘an Easy Victim’ of Putin’s Policies, Busygina Says
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21. Three Federal Subjects – Krasnoyarsk Kray, Sverdlovsk Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast – Suffer from Four of the Five Problems Arising from Global Warming
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/three-federal-subjects-krasnoyarsk-kray.html
22. Kremlin’s Ability to Monitor All Phone Calls Threatens to Kill Telephone Polling in Russia
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/kremlins-ability-to-monitor-all-phone.html
23. Senior Russian Officials Now Engaging in Flamboyant Populist Rhetoric but with a Twist: Their Target is Putin rather than the Russian People, Pertsev Says
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24. Moscow Again Tests the Limits on Svalbard – This Time with a Police Car
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/moscow-again-tests-limits-on-svalbard.html
25. Caspian Sea’s Declining Water Level Limits Size of Ships Its Ports can Handle
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/caspian-seas-declining-water-level.html
26. Muscovites Say They’re Less Affected by Putin’s War in Ukraine than do Russians Beyond the Ring Road, Levada Center Poll Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/muscovites-say-theyre-less-affected-by.html
27. No One is Doing More to Preserve Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square than Those Demanding It be Dismantled, Two Russian Marxists Say
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28. Russian Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Likely to Spark New HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Russia
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/russian-veterans-of-putins-war-in.html
29. Caspian Sea Dying with Catastrophic Economic, Demographic and Geopolitical Consequences
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/caspian-sea-dying-with-catastrophic.html
30. Putin Wants Chinese-Style ‘One Belt, One Route’ Corridor for Russia
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/putin-wants-chinese-style-one-belt-one.html
31. Russia has Again Become Muscovy and Should Be Called That, Shtepa Says
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32. Moscow Hopes to ‘Stabilize’ Population in Siberian Federal District
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33. Unlike Their Parents, Young Kazakhs View Kazakh as Being More Attractive and Providing More Opportunities than Russian Can, Kazakhstan Scholar Says
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34. Regions, Republics, Cities and Villages in Russian Federation Celebrate 900 Festivals Each Year – and a Portal Provides Data on All of Them
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35. Putin Policies Driving Upsurge in Divorces in North Caucasus
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36. Chinese Restaurants Now Found in Almost All Settlements in Russian Far East, Zyuenko Says
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37. Putin Allies’ Attacks on Khrushchev’s Secret Speech Open the Way to Criminalization of Those who Backed End of USSR, Tsipko Warns
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38. Yerevan Removes Drawing of Mount Ararat from Passport Entry Stamps
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39. New Institute Set Up in Vladivostok to Guide Spatial Development of Russian Far East
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40. Moscow Expanding Network of Central Asian Branches of Russian Universities, Likely to Save Money Now Spent on Bringing Central Asian Students to Russia Itself
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/moscow-expanding-network-of-central.html
41. One in Three of Languages Used in Russian Schools are at Risk of Disappearing and All except Russian May Do So as Well, Moscow Scholars Say
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42. Kremlin Fails to Understand Ethnic Russians in Baltic Countries aren’t a Diaspora and Won’t Move to Russia For Money Alone, ‘Krisis Kopilka’ Portal Says
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43. Moscow Destroying Russia’s Forests Ever More Rapidly, Environmentalists Say
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44. Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities Now Unites Areas with Nearly 10 Percent of Russian Population
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45. As Their Own Needs Go Unmet, Russians Increasingly Angry about How Putin’s War has Unjustly Enriched Soldiers But Not Brought Victory, Gallyamov Says
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46. If Moscow Doesn’t Admit More Immigrants, Russia’s Population will Fall More than Half by 2100, ‘To Be Precise’ Says https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/if-moscow-doesnt-admit-more-immigrants.html
47. In Russian Stores, Prices are Not Only Going Up but Mix of Goods Available is Going Down
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48. Moscow Ramps Up Spending Abroad to Promote Russian Language and Win Russian Loyalists There
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49. Lukashenka Tightening Control over Belarusians, Belarusian Helsinki Committee Warns
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50. Udmurts Issue New Declaration of Sovereignty, 35 Years after Moscow Suppressed the First
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