Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / February 7, 2026
1. Russians ‘Repeating’ Worst Aspects of Soviet Behavior in World War II But Not the Most Valuable and Essential, Gallyamov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/russians-repeating-worst-aspects-of.html
2. Like Stalin, Putin Views His Soldiers and His People as a Threat to His Rule, Lea and Taskin Say
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3. Ukrainian Soldiers Not Surrendering the Way Germans Did in World War II, a Sign that End of War is Still Far Away, Panov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/ukrainian-soldiers-not-surrendering-way.html
4. Russians Will Likely Stop Hating Groups if the Kremlin Stops Whipping Up Popular Attitudes Against Them, Analysts Tell ‘Novaya Gazeta’
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5. For Fifth Year Running, Russians Bought More Anti-Depressants than the Year Before
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6. Whom are Russians Going to Believe about Murmansk — Kremlin Media or Their Own Eyes?
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7. Ethnic Russians Overwhelmingly Fear the Disintegration of Their Country, Gallyamov Says, and That Helps the Kremlin Retain Power
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8. Women in North Caucasus Even More Likely to be Mistreated after Ukraine War Ends because Judicial System Sides with the Men in Their Lives Against Them, ‘Ad Rem’ Investigation Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/women-in-north-caucasus-even-more.html
9. Russians Don’t View Putin as Sacral but Rather as Eternal, Belkovsky Says
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10. Aesopian Language Lives – Baikal Portal Carries Major Article on How Another Russian War to Annex Foreign Territory Sparked a Revolution at Home
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11. Putin’s ‘Hero Mother’ Program Highlights Russia’s Demographic Problems Rather than Solving Them
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/putins-hero-mother-program-highlights.html
12. A Corrupt Colonial System: Russia’s Northern Regions Not Allowed to Develop Their Own Resources or Get Them from Neighbors but Forced by Moscow to Bring Them from Far Away
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-corrupt-colonial-system-russias.html
13. Rosstat Releases More Data Highlighting Russia’s Continuing Demographic Decline
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14. Declines in Number of Repressive Cases in Belarus Should Not Fool Anyone, Sociologist Says; They Reflect that Lukashenka has Already Repressed Most Possible Targets
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15. Kyrgyzstan Requires Countries Receiving Its Water to Pay for It
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16. Traditional Way of Life No Longer Ensures Survival of Native Language for Non-Russians Living Outside Their National Republics, New Study Finds
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/traditional-way-of-life-no-longer.html
17. Kremlin Advisor Says Russians Quite Happy to Trade Freedom for Effective Rule
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18. Moscow Patriarchate Diverges from Kremlin on Traditional Values, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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19. Russian Soldiers Injured in Combat in Ukraine Far More Likely to Die than Their Predecessors or Combatants Elsewhere, Kyiv’s ‘Come Back Alive Initiative’ Says
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20. Fewer Russians Vaccinated against Childhood Diseases in 2025 than in Any Year of the Last Decade, Increasing Risks of Epidemics, ‘Takiye Dela’ Reports
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21. Fewer Russians Vaccinated against Childhood Diseases in 2025 than in Any Year of the Last Decade, Increasing Risks of Epidemics, ‘Takiye Dela’ Reports
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/fewer-russians-vaccinated-against.html
22. Moscow’s Increasingly Imperialist Rhetoric Alienating Former Soviet Republics Ever More Completely, Kazakhstan Commentator Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/01/moscows-increasingly-imperialist.html
23. Moscow Continues to Use Outdated Infrastructure Plans Drawn Up More than a Half a Century Ago, Baliyev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/moscow-continues-to-use-outdated.html
24. Ethnic Bullying in Russia Fundamentally Different from Ordinary Bullying Because ‘Nationality Can’t Be Changed,’ Tomilina Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/ethnic-bullying-in-russia-fundamentally.html
25. Memes Playing Increasingly Important Role in Russian Discussions about Putin’s War in Ukraine
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26. Moscow Increases Its Focus on Two North Atlantic Archipelagos – Denmark’s Faeroes and Norway’s Svalbard windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/moscow-increases-its-focus-on-two-north.html
27. Putin has Used Unresolved Traumas of Russian People to Build a Dictatorship and Launch a War, Grozovsky and Postnov Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/putin-has-used-unresolved-traumas-of.html
28. Emergency Medical Services, Now More Important than Ever in Russia Because of Putin’s Optimization Program, Bleeding Staff and Failing to Get Equipment
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29. Vatniks are the Soviets of Today and West Must Deal Decisively with Vatnikistan, Vladimirov Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/vatniks-are-soviets-of-today-and-west.html
30. Nakhchivan to Drop References in Its Constitution to 1921 Treaties that Made Russia and Turkey Guarantors of that Autonomous Republic
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31. Kazan Spiritual Academy to Expand Because ‘Russian Orthodox Church Needs Specialists on Islam,’ Its Rector Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/kazan-spiritual-academy-to-expand.html
32. Not One Russian University Remains in World’s Top 200, ‘Krisis-Kopilka’ Says
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33. Russian Conservatives See Halal Certification as ‘Threat’ to the State, But Moscow Officials Say It Helps Boost Russian Exports to Islamic Countries
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/russian-conservatives-see-halal.html
34. ‘Daptar’ Portal Launches Bulletin on Femicide in the North Caucasus
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35. Public’s Fears have Different Political Impact in Democracies than in Authoritarian Systems like Russia’s Today, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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36. Veterans Returning to Impoverished Russian Regions Likely to Have Even More Problems than Those Returning to Most Non-Russian Republics, Rybakova Says
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37. In Words Kremlin will Welcome, Senior Russian Muslim Leader Says Faithful Should Avoid Praying in Public
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38. Russia’s Infrastructure Problems Built Up Over Decades Now So Disastrous that Tariffs are Skyrocketing Beyond Ability of Citizenry to Pay
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/russias-infrastructure-problems-built.html
39. Countries in Organization of Turkic States Adopt Common History Textbook
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40. Azerbaijan’s Exit from CIS Now ‘Inevitable,’ Baku Commentator Says
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41. Epstein Scandal Resembles Rasputin Scandal of 1916 and Could Have Equally Fateful Consequences, Akunin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/epstein-scandal-resembles-rasputin.html
42. In a ‘Revolutionary Development,’ Moscow has Succeeded in Getting Russians to View the State ‘as a Service,’ Central Bank Chief Says
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43. Key Russian Firm that Identified Major Mineral Reserves in Arctic Shuts Down
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44. Migrant Workers Leaving Russia Because Their Children Can’t Get into Schools There, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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45. Russian Firm ‘Earlier Proud of Resisting Sinification’ Moves to China to Try to Survive, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Reports
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46. Ever More Russians Homeschooling Their Children, Many to Escape Kremlin War Propaganda
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47. Russia’s ‘Hidden Unemployed’ Now Coming Out of Shadows as One in Seven Russians has Fallen into This Group windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/russias-hidden-unemployed-now-coming.html
48. Another Result of Putin’s War in Ukraine: Violence in Russian Schools Ever More Frequent and More Lethal
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/another-result-of-putins-war-in-ukraine.html
49. Sexual Violence Cases Tripled over Last Year in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast Neighboring Ukraine
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/02/sexual-violence-cases-tripled-over-last.html
50. Almost Half of Muslims in Russan Federation At Present want to Have Three or More Children, More than Double the Share of Ethnic Russians who Do
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