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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