Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / November 8, 2025
1. Nearly Half of Major Russian Companies Stop Publishing Key Financial Data
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2. Moscow has Succeeded in Getting West to Talk about ‘Not Provoking the Aggressor’ Rather than about Defending Itself, Lea and Taskin Say
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3. Number of Foreigners Applying to Resettle in Russia Drops by Two-Thirds from Last Year to Lowest Level in 11 Years windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/number-of-foreigners-applying-to.html
4. KBR Officials Struggle to Damp Down Ethnic Passions in One of Russia’s Last Officially Bi-National Republics windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/kbr-officials-struggle-to-damp-down.html
5. Russian Region that Restricted Alcohol Sales Sees Alcohol Consumption Skyrocket
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6. Corruption Charges in Gyumri Likely Opens Way for New Move against Russian Base in that Armenian City
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7. Russians Tried but Failed to Make an Ethnic Kazakh Ashamed of His Name and His People, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/russians-tried-but-failed-to-make.html
8. Latvian Government Gives Neo-Pagan Faith Same Status and Rights as Other Religions in That Country
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9. On Putin’s Order, Tajik Policemen will Soon be Working in Moscow
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10. For a Bering Strait Tunnel to Work, Russia and US would have to Build Hundreds of Miles of Railways and Roads Linking It to National Grids, Verkhoturov Says
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11. ‘Why are Russians Fighting in Ukraine Only to Hand Over Baikal to China?’ Residents Ask
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12. Sakha Deputy Urges Republics to Unite and Take Back Powers Moscow has Stolen from Them
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13. Turkmenistan Moving Quickly to Become Major Sea Power on Caspian
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14. When It Comes to Space Exploration, Russia Now at Most China’s Junior Partner, Kharlanov Says
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15. Ever More RF Residents Going to Court to Change Their Nationality from Russian to Something Else, ‘Vyorstka’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/ever-more-rf-residents-going-to-court.html
16. Putin won’t End War in Ukraine Because He Fears Separatism in Russia, Gallyamov Says
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17. Putinism Represents ‘Not a Failure of the Post-Soviet Transition but Its Full Realization,’ Shtepa Says
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18. Putin has Used Foreign Agents Law to ‘Strangle Freedom’ in Russia, Abramenko Says
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19. Dictatorship Only Three and a Half Hours by Car from Moscow – If There’s No Traffic
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20. Kremlin Unable to Face Up to or Think Seriously about Russia’s ‘Catastrophic Demographic Situation,’ Chernyshov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/kremlin-unable-to-face-up-to-or-think.html
21. Fergana Valley No Longer Set to Trigger Broader Explosion in Central Asia, Tajik Scholar Says
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22. Will Kazakhstan Evacuate Last 300 Ethnic Kazakhs from Afghanistan?
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23. Putin’s War in Ukraine has ‘Clipped the Wings’ of Russia’s Regional Air Carriers as Far as Foreign Destinations are Concerned, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says
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24. Kazakhstan to Rebuild and Expand Its Riverine Trade Network First with China and Possibly Then with Russia
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25. After Falling from 80 Percent in 2010 to 65 Percent in 2020, 73 Percent of Russia’s Residents Now Tell Levada Center They’re Orthodox
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26. Dozens of Russian Officials have Turned Putin Down when He asked Them to Serve as Heads of Federal Subjects, Russian Political Scientist Says
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27. Russian Officers in Ukraine Killing Their Own Soldiers and Moscow is Suppressing Investigations of These Crimes windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/10/russian-officers-in-ukraine-killing.html
28. Russia’s Looming Disintegration Not Result of Efforts by Other Countries but of the Kremlin’s Mistaken Policies, Ethnic and Regional Activists Say
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29. Abortion Still Legal in Putin’s Russia But Officials are Working Hard to Block Women from Getting One
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30. For First Time since 2022, Uzbek Diplomats Meet with Karakalpak Émigré Opposition Figures
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31. Like Others in Russia, Migrants There Finding It Easier to Acquire Guns Since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine, Moscow Commentator Says
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32. Kazakhization of Petropavlovsk to Petropavl ‘Satisfies No One,’ ‘Times of Central Asia’ Says
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33. Russian War Veterans Returning Home with Sense That They can Get Away with Anything, Leading to Spike in Hooliganism, Experts Say
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34. Even in North Caucasus, Media Outlets are Preparing Residents for Closer Ties with China
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35. More than Half of All Russians are ‘Very Tired’ of War in Ukraine, according to a VTsIOM Poll Conducted for the Kremlin, ‘Vot Tak’ Reports
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36. Future Disintegration of Russian State will Be Different than in 1918 or 1991 but Each of Those Cases Provides Lessons for All Involved
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37. Russia has ‘Minimum’ of 8,000 Political Prisoners ‘NeMoskva’ Says
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38. Estonian Villagers in Tyumen Oblast Refuse to Make Donations for Putin’s War in Ukraine
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39. Seven Myths about 1937 that, Despite Available Evidence, All Too Many Still Believe In
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40. Moscow Only Predominantly Ethnic Russian Region Slated to be Present at PACE Forum
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41. ‘Import Substitution of Holidays’ Running into Difficulties, Arkhipova Says
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42. Kyrgyzstan Entering a New Demographic Era with Falling Birthrates and Increases in Number of Pensioners
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43. Those in Moscow who Say that ‘Without a Victory over Ukraine, Russia will Cease to Exist’ are Living in a Past that No Longer Exists, Savvin Says
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44. To Avoid Problems and Keep Their Jobs, Russian Officials Frequently Go Well Beyond Putin’s Specific Orders, Bondaryov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/to-avoid-problems-and-keep-their-jobs.html
45. Russia Doesn’t Currently have an Ethnic Russian National Movement but Will Eventually have a Russian Nationalist Revolution, ‘Russian March’ Veterans Say
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46. New Russian Office on Svalbard Headed by ‘SpitsGirl’ who Says Norway Restricting Moscow’s Rights There windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-russian-office-on-svalbard-headed.html
47. Russian Schools in Vladivostok and St. Petersburg to Train Chinese Skippers of Ships Plying the Northern Sea Route windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/russian-schools-in-vladivostok-and-st.html
48. Putin Says that ‘Without the Ethnic Russian People, Russia Cannot be Russia’
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49. Civil War Only One of Challenges Now Facing Russia’s Leaders, Kremlin Sociologist Warns
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50. Kremlin Plan to Bring Ukraine War Veterans into Duma will Further Degrade Russian Political Life, Reznik Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/kremlin-plan-to-bring-ukraine-war.html
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