Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / Oct 18, 2025

My blog has entered a period that sometimes seems to be a kind of perfect storm, one that has significantly reduced the number of stories I am now able to write up. My health has declined; the Russian media has become less interesting as so many people who did write have stopped and those who do follow fewer topics; and the increasing bandwidth on the Internet means that ever more people use videos rather than written articles to get their ideas out, a shift that means it takes far longer to track their ideas. As a result, I am now writing about half as many articles a day as I did. That means that instead of sending these batches out about once a week, I am now doing so roughly every two weeks. That means that some of the stories I’m sending are in many cases about topics older than was the case in the past. If you would like to see the stories as they are produced, please subscribe to my blog, www.windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com, or, alternatively, if you would prefer not to continue to receive these collections of 50 stories, please let me know. Paul Goble

1. Numerically Small Peoples in Russian Federation More Likely to Be Overwhelmed and Replaced by Immigrants than are Larger Nations, KPRF Duma Deputy Sayswindowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/numerically-small-peoples-in-russian.html

2. Estonia Must Proactively Help Nearby Russian Regions Overcome Moscow-Imposed Consciousness, Shtepa Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/estonia-must-proactively-help-nearby.html

3. Russia has Built Only One Icebreaker Since Putin Began His Expanded War in Ukraine windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/russia-has-built-only-one-icebreaker.html

4. More than 300 Russian Schools on Brink of Collapse, and in the Last Five Years, More than 30 Have windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/more-than-300-russian-schools-on-brink.html

5. More than 50,000 Russian Soldiers have Deserted since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine in February 2022, UN Expert Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/more-than-50000-russian-soldiers-have.html

6. Circassians have ‘Nothing to Celebrate’ on Russian-Created ‘Day of the Adyg,’ Activists Say

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7. United Russia Party Increases Its Overwhelming Majorities in Regional and City Assemblies

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8. Astrakhan after Three Years of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine

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9. Russia’s Current Demographic Crisis ‘Far More Dangerous’ than One in 1990s, Abylkalikov Says

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10. Russians Say Income Inequality Far Too Great and Now a Societal Problem, Moscow Sociologist Reports

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11. Russia Likely has Greatest Gender Pay Gap of Any Country in the World, ‘NeMoskva’ Suggests

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12. As Turkic Languages Converge, Ever More Speakers of Each are Using Others as Well and Becoming ‘Turkic Cosmopolitans’ — or ‘Turkpolits’ for Short, Lamazhaa Says

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13. Grozny’s Changing of Three Cossack Place Names to Chechen Ones Reflects Demographic Changes – and Some Muscovites are Furious

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14. Collateral Victims of Putin’s Repressions — Families of Enemies of Putin Regime and Those Under House Arrest

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15. Moscow Patriarch, Russian Community Organization Welcome Openly Fascist Groups from Around the World to St. Petersburg Conference

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16. Record-Breaking Melting of Svalbard Glaciers Likely to Have Security Implications

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17. ‘There is No Basis for Talking about ‘a Thaw’ in Lukashenka’s Belarus, Rights Activist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/there-is-no-basis-for-talking-about.html

18. Soviet System Successfully Covered Up Third Largest Nuclear Accident in History

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19. Pollution Killed 20,000 Russians Died Last Year and Made Millions More Sick, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says

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20. As Alcohol Prices Rise and Restrictions on Its Sale Increase, Russians Turning to Dangerous Surrogates

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21. As Russia Falters in North, China Expands Its Role There to the Despair of Some in Moscow

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22. A Market Economy Coexisted with Totalitarianism under Stalin, an Arrangement that Continues in Putin’s Russia, Savvin Says

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23. Tatarstan Writers Union to ‘Unite’ with Union of Writers of Russia and Limit Itself to Local Issues

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24. Era of Mass Car Ownership in Russia Ending with Fateful Consequences for the People and the Powers, Nikulin Says

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25. Putin Can’t Win in Ukraine with a War of Exhaustion, Kirill Rogov Says

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26. Ethnic Russians Can and Do Assimilate to Other Nations Both Inside Russia and Abroad

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27. Era of Moscow’s Non-Russian Schools Coming to an End with Threatened Closure of Only Tatar School There

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28. New Buddhist Leader of Tyva Likely to Play Far Larger Role than His Predecessors

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29. Putin’s War in Ukraine Soon will Exceed Length of Stalin’s Great Patriotic War, Kolesnikov Says

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30. Partisan Actions against Moscow Took Place Across Russia Almost Every Day Last Month, ‘Resistance’ Group Says

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31. Moscow Wants Women to have More Children but to Save Money Continues to Closer Obstetric Facilities, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/moscow-wants-women-to-have-more.html

32. Caspian’s Falling Water Level Hitting Kazakhstan Harder than Other Littoral Countries

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33. Plans to Ban Ships Older than 40 Years from Using Russian Ports would Threaten Economy More Generally, Experts Say

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34. Ukraine Wants to Support Non-Russian Movements in Russia, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Says

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35. Conflict in Mari El Raises Question Whether National Movements Can Succeed If They Ignore Religious Views of Population

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36. Minsk Devoting More Attention to Catholics, a Shift Some Fear Presages Greater Government Interference in Life of the Church

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37. Russia’s Regional Air Carriers in Trouble, Isolating Many Distant Population Points

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38. Putin’s Russia has ‘Same Latent Potential for Disintegration that Led to Collapse of USSR, Taskin and Lea Say

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39. A Threat to Putin’s Base? Pensions Fall to Lowest Percentage of Wages and Salaries since 2008

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40. Moscow’s Repressive Apparatus Works Both at Putin’s Direction and by Inertia, Experts Say

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41. Regions and Republics Pursuing Freedom and Independence Must Both Expect and Work to Block Inevitable Acts of Revanchism by Moscow Empire, Magaletsky Says

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42. PACE Suggestion that ‘Peoples Colonized by Russia’ Should have 30 Percent of Seats in New Platform of Russian Democratic Forces Sparks Controversy

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43. Water Level of Armenia’s Lake Sevan Falling Rapidly Threatening Economy and Population

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44. Even a Future Russian Republic without the North Caucasus, the Middle Volga, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East would be Far Too Big for Many Regional and Ethnic Activists

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45. Fertility Rate in Belarus has Fallen from 1.38 to 1.08 Children Per Woman Per Lifetime to 1.08 over Last Six Years

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46. Sakha Prepares to Rewrite Its Constitution for the 13th Time, but Others have Done So Even More Often

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47. Almost Half of Russians View Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine as ‘Spiritual Cripples’ and Don’t Expect Anything Good from Their Return Home, Levada Center Poll Finds

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48. Polls No Longer Reliable Because Russians Won’t Answer Questions from Those They Don’t Know, Academy of Sciences Sociologist Says

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49. Russian Families with at Least One School-Age Child Nearly Twice as Likely to be Poor than are Others, New Study Reports

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50. Putin’s New Migration Policy Directed at Preventing Ghettos rather than Boosting Russia’s Population

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