Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / January 25, 2026
1. Siberian Farmers Planting Less This Year Because of Falling Prices for Grain and Rising Prices for Equipment – and Some Say Chinese will Buy Up Their Land
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2. Russian Orthodox in Belarus as Divided about Lukashenka as are Roman Catholics, ‘Christian Vision’ Expert Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/russian-orthodox-in-belarus-as-divided.html
3. ‘Hidden’ Unemployment in Russia Skyrocketing, Katasonov Says
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4. Russia Must Proudly Reclaim Its Historical Status as an Empire or Risk Losing Ever More of Its Periphery, Andreyeva Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/russia-must-proudly-reclaim-its.html
5. To Get Positive Demographic Numbers, Vologda Oblast Paying Women from Neighboring Regions to Register Their Children in Vologda
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6. Poland and Turkey Sign Accord Reminding World that the Intermarium Countries have Greater Military Capacities than All NATO Countries Except the US
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7. Kunayev Entitled His Memoirs ‘From Stalin to Gorbachev’ But He Should have Called Them ‘Without Stalin or Gorbachev,’ Olzhas Suleymenov Says
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8. Are Massage Parlor Discounts for Veterans of War in Ukraine a Moscow Effort to Get More Recruits or the Result of a Shortage of Customers Because of Combat Deaths? Vladimirov Asks
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9. Putin’s Expanded War in Ukraine Now Longer than Stalin’s Great Fatherland War – and Russians are Tired, Kolesnikov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/putins-expanded-war-in-ukraine-now.html
10. Domestic Tourism in Russia Likely Fall Smaller and Growing Less Quickly than Moscow Routinely Claims
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11. Russia’s Federal Subjects have Cut Back or Stopped Publishing Statistics at Different Times than Moscow or than Each Other, ‘Sibirsky Ekspress’ Says
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12. Pskov Governor Suggests Lack of Heat in Region’s Homes May be Result of ‘Sabotage’
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13. Word Russians Use Most Often Isn’t Russian but Borrowed from English, Moscow Institute Says
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14. Samara Oblast, a Predominantly Ethnic Russian Region, had Nearly Twice as Many Deaths as Births in 2025, Officials Acknowledge windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/samara-oblast-predominantly-ethnic.html
15. Because Putin’s War in Ukraine is Longer than Stalin’s Great Fatherland War, Kremlin Propagandists have Been Forced to Change Their Line, Gallyamov Says
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16. Ingush Plan to Give Returning Veterans Land Likely to Spark Unrest in that North Caucasus Republic
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17. Moscow Radically Expands Categories of Russians who Can Be Subjected to Forcible Psychiatric Treatment windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/moscow-radically-expands-categories-of.html
18. Solovyev’s Call for Using Force Against Central Asia and Armenia if They Don’t Bow to Moscow’s Will Sparks Outrage windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/solovyevs-call-for-using-force-against.html
19. Putin’s War in Ukraine Radically Different from All of Russia’s Previous Wars, Inozemtsev Says
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20. Utilities Problems in Russia won’t Spark a Revolt but Response of Officials to Them Certainly Could, Rybakova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/utilities-problems-in-russia-wont-spark.html
21. Demobilized Veterans of Putin’s War are Returning to Fight Again in Russian Army in Ukraine
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22. Russians Facing the Collapse of Communal Services for Prolonged Periods are Now Working on Their Own to Address this Problem windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/russians-facing-collapse-of-communal.html
23. In Response to Putin’s Failure to Aid Regimes in Venezuela and Iran, Officials Close to the Kremlin Complain that ‘Strong Countries Don’t Treat Allies like This’
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24. Western Sanctions Force Russia’s Northern Shipping Company to Seek Bankruptcy Protection via Russian Courts
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25. SVR, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Calls Ecumenical Patriarchate ‘the Anti-Christ’
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26. Polygamy Widespread in North Caucasus Now Mostly Involving Men with Money and Power
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27. Suleymenov Came to Baku during Black January and then Told Moscow that Soviet Forces in Azerbaijan had Acted Like Fascists windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/suleymenov-came-to-baku-during-black.html
28. Moscow’s Plan to Boost Number of Doctors across Russia Won’t Work Quantitatively or Qualitatively, Experts Say
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29. Regional Elites Now Profiting from Immigrants Getting in the Way of Regulating or Even Closing Down ‘Multitude’ of Ethnic Enclaves across Russia, Kabanov Says
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30. Western Sanctions from 2014 Killed Off Russia’s Lunar Flight Program, Moscow Space Expert Says
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31. Fake Charges of Extremism Power Rise of Extremist Attitudes, Memorial Expert Says
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32. Russian-Iranian ‘Weapons Corridor’ Means the Caspian is No Longer Safe for Shipping or for Littoral States, Baku Commentator Says
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33. In RF Population Centers Under 200 People, Ethnic Russians Form Either Huge Majorities or are Completely Absent, Census Data Show
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34. Russian Nationalist Consensus Today Holds that the Civic Russian Nation is ‘a Poly-Ethnic System Headed by Russians,’ Verkhovsky Says
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35. A Quarter Fewer Men from City of Moscow Went to Fight in Ukraine in 2025 than Did in 2024, ‘Vyorstka’ Investigation Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-quarter-fewer-men-from-city-of-moscow.html
36. Harbingers of Russia’s Loss of Freedom Now Appeared a Decade Ago, Editors of ‘Horizontal Russia’ Say
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37. Russia has Every Right to Expand Its Position on Svalbard if US Does the Same in Greenland, Moscow Commentator Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/russia-has-every-right-to-expand-its.html
38. Moscow’s Russian Nationalism Alienating Non-Russians and the Kremlin has Reason to Worry, ‘Nezygar’ Telegram Channel Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/moscows-russian-nationalism-alienating.html
39. Bashkortostan’s Budget Deficit Result of Planned Spending on Veterans and Their Families
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40. Khabarovsk Governor Denounces Moscow’s Plans to Scrap Older Ships before New Ones are Built, Warning that This will Lead to Economic ‘Paralysis’ and Isolation of Population Centers
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41. Putin is Russia’s ‘God-Given “Vozhd”’ Now, Patriarch Kirill Declares
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42. Russia will Remain Divided in a Variety of Ways Even after War in Ukraine Ends, Volkov Says
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43. Fertility Rate in Russia Falls to New Low, Highlighting Failure of Putin’s Efforts
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44. Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Becoming Victims of Crime after Returning Home, ‘Regional Aspect’ Portal Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/veterans-of-putins-war-in-ukraine.html
45. When Some Russians Condemn US for Actions in Venezuela and Greenland, They May be Thinking about Moscow’s Actions in Ukraine, Russian Analyst Says
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46. 40 Percent of the One Percent of Russian Defendants Initially Found Not Guilty Now Being Convicted on Appeal, Lawyers Group Says
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47. Putin’s War in Ukraine ‘Unsuccessful for Russia Even Though It is Even More Unsuccessful for Ukraine,’ Pastukhov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/putins-war-in-ukraine-unsuccessful-for.html
48. Russian Urbanization Following Third World Model of the Rise of a Few Large Megacities and the Collapse of Smaller Urban Spaces, Krupnov Says
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49. By Reducing the Number of Russians Classified as Handicapped, Moscow Frees Up Money for Other Uses, Including War, Experts Says
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50. Had Soviets Not Used Force to Move People There, ‘Siberia would have been Left without People Long Before Now,’ Russian Political Geographer Says
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