Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / May 14, 2026
1. A Rubicon has Been Crossed: No One in Russia No Matter How Distant from Ukraine Can Feel Entirely Secure, Shoigu Says
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2. Moscow Doesn’t Recognize Young Russians Aren’t Having Children Because They’re ‘Afraid’ to Do So, Khazin Says
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3. Ethnic Russians Still in Central Asia will Assimilate to Local Populations in Future Unless Moscow Works to Repatriate Them Now, Shustov Says
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4. Finnish Paper Suggests Hungarians Ashamed of Their Finno-Ugric Origins
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5. Desertification of Southern Russia and Kazakhstan In Part Result of Cancellation of Stalin’s Plan to Transform Nature There, ‘Rhythm of Eurasia’ Commentator Says
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6. With Russian Birthrate Continuing to Plummet, Putin Orders Reproductive Health Screenings for Wide Swath of Population
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7. Almost Half of Russian Victims of Crime Don’t Report This to Police, St. Petersburg’s Institute of Law Enforcement Problems Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/04/almost-half-of-russian-victims-of-crime.html
8. Putin’s War in Ukraine Behind Dramatic Increase in Missing Persons Cases in Russia
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9. Putin’s Use of Dzerzhinsky Echoes Soviet History and His Own Past but May Be Harbinger of More Repression, Historian Says
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10. In Some Russian Federal Subjects, Defenders of Architectural Monuments Only Rights Groups Left — and Moscow is Reducing Their Chances for Success
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11. Kremlin’s Promotion of Traditional Values Failing to Change Russian Behavior in Directions Putin Regime Wants, ‘Re-Russia’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/kremlins-promotion-of-traditional.html
12. Average Age in Non-Russian Municipalities Far Lower than in Ethnic Russian Ones, ‘To Be Precise’ Survey Finds
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13. Moscow Gives Indigenous Status to One Percent or Fewer of Russia’s Population, Evenk Scholar Says
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14. Moscow’s Failure to Block Drone Attacks on Key Businesses Prompts Mironov to Call for Such Firms to Set Up Their Own Defense Forces
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15. Yet Another Critical Putin Project to Support Northern Sea Route Suspended for Lack of Funds, Reducing Russia’s Ability to Export Coal
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16. Not Just in Moscow or Not Just for Security, May Day Parades Cancelled Across Russia
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17. Russian Orthodox Church Gets Official Recognition in Third African Country
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18. Buryat Woman Attacked by Russians on Moscow Bus for Speaking Buryat
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19. Duma Deputy from Sakha Introduces Draft Bill to Exempt Children of the Numerically Small Peoples of the North from Any Russian Draft
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20. Stalin’s Horrific Plan for Great Northern Railway Cancelled within Weeks of His Death by His Successors
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21. Kalashnikov Says Putin will Soon Be Gone and Russians will Face Collapse But Only for a Time
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22. Since Putin Began His Expanded War in Ukraine, Regional Statistical Offices have Stopped Publishing Data on Population Size to Hide Massive Declines, Especially among Men
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23. Fertility Rates in North Caucasus Falling with Chechnya Alone having One Just Above Replacement Level
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24. Russia’s Northern Capital Must Remain Both Petersburg and Leningrad, Yaremenko Says
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25. Worried about Opposition If It Doesn’t’ Achieve Victory, Kremlin Discusses How to ‘Sell’ Ending War in Ukraine with Less, ‘Dossier’ Says
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26. Russian Businesses Call on Kremlin Not to Force Them Pay to Support Population Growth
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27. Since Putin’s War Began. More Russian Women have Been Jailed and Suffered More Abuse Behind Bars, ‘Vyorstka’ Says
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28. Moscow Counts Soviet Troops who Fought Nationalist Underground in Baltics, Belarus and Ukraine until 1951 as Veterans of the Great Fatherland War
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29. Police from Tajikistan Now in Moscow to Deal with Tajik Migrants There
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30. Moscow Softens Punishment for Many Baymak Protesters Lest It Provoke Greater Bashkir Opposition to Itself, Davidis Says
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31. Kursk Oblast Makes Plans to Erect Memorial to Leonid Brezhnev
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32. Kazakhstan will Soon Again have a Vice President, a Position It Dispensed with in 1996
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33. Ukrainian Society Now Fundamentally Different than When Putin Began His Expanded War in 2022 and Won’t Revert to What It was Before, Minakov Says
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34. Moscow Responds to Growing Income Inequality by Changing How It is Measured
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35. Russia Now Reversing Earlier Draining of Swamplands to Combat Forest Fires, Air Pollution and Global Warming
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36. Most Expressions of Russian Discontent Still of Loyalist Variety, Dubrovsky Says
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37. Moscow Wrestling with Multiple Dimensions of Global Warming Especially in the Far North
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38. With World War II Veterans Passing from the Scene, Kazakhstan Extending Special Benefits to Others who Suffered Then or Later windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/with-world-war-ii-veterans-passing-from.html
39. Women Remain Face of Protest in North Caucasus Even Though They’ve Lost Relative Immunity They had Earlier, ‘Daptar’ Says
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40. With Widening Drone Attacks, Ukraine Driving ‘Wedge’ between Moscow and Federation Subjects, Gallyamov Says
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41. Kremlin Narratives Preclude Not only Calling War in Ukraine a War but Conflicts among Nationalities Conflicts, Abramenko Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/kremlin-narratives-preclude-not-only.html
42. Yerevan Won’t Set Up Polling Stations Abroad for Armenian Diaspora
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43. ‘Chief Task for Belarus is Not to Become Part of Russia After Putin’s War in Ukraine Ends,’ Babariko Says
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44. Judicial Statistics Gathered by Russian Supreme Court to Remain Classified for 20 Years
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45. Russia’s Shortage of Nurses Seen Growing from 50,000 Now to 250,000 in Four Years
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46. Moscow Must Combat Increasing Militarization of the Caspian by Diplomacy Not Force, Iranian Analyst Says
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47. Fewer North Caucasians have Fought in Ukraine than Many Think, But Chechnya’s Kadyrov has Gained Power from the War, Memorial Says
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48. Caspian Water Level Falling So Fast that New Islands are Appearing and Shipping is at Risk, Russian Specialists Say
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49. Most Russians Feel They are Suffering from ‘Too Many Inconveniences’ and This Sense Both Reflects and is Affecting Their Evaluations of Putin, Levinson Says
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50. Russian Victory Day Ceremony on Svalbard ‘Veiled Effort’ to Build Militarized Presence on the Norwegian Archipelago, ‘Barents Observer’ Says
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