Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / November 26, 2025

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / November 26, 2025



1.    Putin’s Governors Come from Narrow Range of Institutions, ‘Club of the Regions’ Says

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2.     Kremlin Gives Non-Russians New Holidays as It Steals Their Presence and Threatens Their Future

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3.     Support for Declaring Ivan the Terrible a Saint Again on the Rise in Russia

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4.     Lukashenka’s New Foreign Policy Elite More Focused on China than on Russia, Turarbekova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/lukashenkas-new-foreign-policy-elite.html

5.     Ethnic Immigrants in Major Russian Cities have Fertility Rates More than Twice as High as Those of Ethnic Russians There, Academy of Sciences Study Says

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6.     Chuvash Woman Recovers Her Language and Identity after Being Alienated from Her Roots by Russian Villagers and a Teacher of Chuvash

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7.     ‘In Russia, There are No Non-Russians’ Only Russian-Non-Russian Hyphenates, Karaulov Says

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8.     In Best Tradition of All Empires, Putin is Offering Superficial Help to Smallest Minorities while Working Overtime to Undermine Larger Ones, Saidukova Says

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9.     Most Serious Problem of Russian Courts is that They are Arranged So that the Number of Not Guilty Verdicts is Approaching Zero, Agranovsky Says

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10.  Russian Police on the Beat Increasingly Outnumbered and Outgunned by Criminals

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11.  Academy of Sciences Releases Maps Showing Concentrations of Ethnic Groups in Moscow and ‘Readovka’ has Posted Them Online windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/academy-of-sciences-releases-maps.html

12.  Nepotism and Family Dynasties Widespread in Putin’s Russia, ‘Proekt’ Documents

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13.  Level of Repression in Russia Increased at a More Rapid Rate in 2025 than in 2022, ‘Re-Russia’ Says

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14.  Oryol Legislator Uses Artificial Intelligence to Post Pictures of a Protest that Never Occurred in Real Life

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15.  Like His Predecessors in Soviet Times, Putin Increasingly Cited in Publications about Subjects Far from Politics or His Own Remarks, ‘Vyorstka’ Says

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16.  Moscow Hopes New Law Requiring Interior Ministry to Destroy Methanol will Reduce Alcohol Deaths

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17.  Since Putin Came to Power, Russian Forests East of Urals have Declined in Net Size by Area Equal in Size in Lithuania windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/since-putin-came-to-power-russian.html

18.  15 Percent of Latest Group of Men from Bashkortostan who’ve Signed Contracts with Russian Army Infected with HIV, ‘Takiye Dela’ Says

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19.  Women Now Form a Quarter of All Immigrant Workers to Russia and Suffer Disproportionately, ‘Posle’ Media Journalist Says  windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/women-now-form-quarter-of-all-immigrant.html

20.  Kremlin’s Tax Policies Reduce Willingness of Firms to Give Food to Needy

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21.  Fewer Russians Today Say Country Needs a Strongman Leader than Did in 2000, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says

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22.  Moscow Plans to Build Infrastructure on Norway’s Svalbard for 50,000 Russian Tourists by 2040

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23.  Chronic Stress in Russian Life Makes Mass Disorders Likely But These Won’t Necessarily be Political, Psychologist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/chronic-stress-in-russian-life-makes.html

24.  Moscow Stops Publishing Statistics about Cancer Deaths Likely Because They are Rising as Medicines and Treatment Become Harder to Get

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25.  Baku and Yerevan Remain Too Far Apart on Corridor to Meet Washington’s Timetable, ‘Accent’ Portal Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/baku-and-yerevan-remain-too-far-apart.html

26.  Moscow No Longer ‘Epicenter of Protest’ in Russia, Oreshkin Says

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27.  Kremlin ‘Fears Appearance of Genuinely Popular Veterans,’ ‘Vyorstka’ Says

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28.  Ernst Jaakson Way: New York City Honors Estonian Diplomat who Embodied Principle that Force Alone Can’t Destroy a State windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/ernst-jaakson-way-new-york-city-honors.html

29.  Even if Kyiv is Forced to Sign Peace Accord, Ukrainian People Unlikely to Accept It – and War will Go On

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30.  Putin’s Special Envoy for Svalbard Says None of Russia’s Rights There Must Be Lost

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31.  As Often in Past, Few Russians are Protesting but Many Sense Collapse Looming, ‘Open Expanse’ Telegram Channel Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/as-often-in-past-few-russians-are.html

32.  Moscow’s Failure to Meet Garbage Processing Goals Already Triggering Protests

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33.  ‘Now There are Six’ – Azerbaijan Joins Central Asian States, Transforming Geopolitics of Eurasia

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34.  Water Shortages Intensifying in Armenia along Turkish Border and in Syunik Oblast

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35.  Moscow Patriarchate Official in Europe Likely Purged Not for Playing Poker but for Supporting Ukraine, ‘NG-Religii’ Journalist Suggests

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36.  Kremlin Restrictions on Abortions Leading to More Back Alley Abortions and More Murders of Newborns, ‘Takiye Dela’ Study Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/kremlin-restrictions-on-abortions.html

37.  Ecumenical Patriarchate May Create Halfway House for Those Unwilling to Remain in Ukrainian Orthodox Church but Not Yet Ready to Join Orthodox Church of Ukraine

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38.  Fertility Rate in Tatarstan Now Far Below Replacement Level, Kazan Demographer Says

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39.  Moscow Pioneered Use of Migration Directed Against Finland and Norway a Decade Ago and May Do So Again, Scandinavian Scholars Warn

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40.  Kremlin Rating of Heads of Federal Subjects on Demographic Behavior of Their Populations Deeply Flawed, ‘To Be Exact’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/kremlin-rating-of-heads-of-federal.html

41.  Closed Military Towns in Russian North have Lost 20 to 30 Percent of Their Populations Since Start of Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine, ‘Khroniki’ Says

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42.  New Russian Law Requiring Medical School Graduates to Work as Assigned Already Backfiring

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43.  Difference in Cost of Living among Russia’s Federal Subjects Reaches Highest Level Ever, Rosstat Data Show

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44.  Kremlin to Monitor Attitudes of Young Russians toward LGBTs, Childfree Advocates and War in Ukraine – and to Punish Regions where Too Many Young Give ‘Incorrect’ Answers

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45.  New Russian Dictionary Says Constitution Not ‘Fundamental Law’ and Authoritarianism Best Form of Government in Difficult Times

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46.  Budget Problems Force Sakha Republic to Suspend Payments to Those Fighting in Ukraine

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47.  Moscow Must Restore Russian Names to Places in Ukraine to Show Russians and the West to Show Ukraine ‘Project’ is Over, Bondarenko Says

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48.  Latest Clash between Chinese and Kyrgyz Workers in Kyrgyzstan Highlights Growing Anti-Chinese Attitudes Across the Region windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/11/latest-clash-between-chinese-and-kyrgyz.html

49.  Russian State Library Sets Up Restricted Access Collection of Anti-Russian Books from Ukraine

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50.  Another Manifestation of Moscow-Centrism: Russians Across the Country Build Models of Kremlin

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