Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / May 30, 2026
1. The Longer Putin Continues His War in Ukraine, the Less Likely Russia is to Emerge with Its Face Saved or the Kremlin Leader Still in Office, Inozemtsev Says
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2. Share of Russians Identifying as Orthodox Christians has Fallen from 78 Percent in 2011 to 65 Percent Now, Polls Show
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3. Healthcare Outside of Moscow Deteriorating because of Putin’s Policies
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4. Tatarstan Creates ‘Volunteer’ Organization of Veterans of Putin’s War to Patrol Streets windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/tatarstan-creates-volunteer.html
5. Number of Kazakhs Moving from China to Kazakhstan Triples since 2025 and is Now Higher than at Any Point in the Last Decade
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6. Kazakhstan Facing Mounting but Unrecognized Demographic Problems
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7. USSR was Not the Russian State Kremlin is Promoting, Ukrainian Historian Says
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8. Putin’s Repression Doesn’t Need to be Massive to Be Intimidating Because It is Unpredictable, Astashin Says
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9. VTsIOM Gets Better Numbers for Putin by Asking Russians Face to Face rather than by Phone Whether They Back the Kremlin Leader
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10. As Result of Putin’s War in Ukraine, Russia Now ‘More Isolated’ than at Any Time Since Bolshevik Revolution, Nina Khrushcheva Says
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11. Russian Siloviki Increasingly Opening Political Cases against Women in North Caucasus and Elsewhere, Lawyer Says
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12. Moscow Struggling to Find Extra-Budgetary Funds to Complete Already Announced Icebreakers
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13. Time Zones Becoming a Problem for Russia as Moscow Scholars Set Online Conferences at Times Convenient Only for Them
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14. Guns Flooding into North Caucasus from Putin’s War, Sparking Rise in Crime and Re-Energizing Militant Underground inside Russia
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15. Suppression of Demographic Data Leading to Serious Policy Errors, ‘To Be Precise’ Portal Says
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16. Likelihood Putin will Try to Seize Territory in Baltic Countries ‘Growing with Each Passing Day,’ Kasparov Says
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17. Global Warming Not Climate Wars Behind Rapidly Deteriorating Situation in the North Caucasus, Abshayev Says
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18. ‘Putin’s Next Move will be Toward Civil War’ with a Black Hundreds Group Serving as the Kremlin’s Shock Troops, Pastukhov Says
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19. Has Putin Lost Faith in His Military Commanders in Ukraine? Moscow’s Ramping Up Number of Politruks in the Russian Army Suggests that May be the Case
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20. Since 2022, Number of Russians Behind Bars has Fallen 40 Percent, but Spending on Russian Prison System has Gone Up 40 Percent, ‘Vyorstka’ Reports
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21. Muscovites Can’t Believe Ukrainians have Succeeded on Their Own in Attacking Them with Drones and Instead Blame Domestic Enemies, Arkhipova Says
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22. Putin Policies Sparking ‘Wave of Separatism’ in Russian Oblasts Bordering Ukraine, Gallyamov Says
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23. Putin’s War in Ukraine will Eventually End and Sanctions are Likely to Be Lifted, but Russia will Not Soon Get Back the Markets It has Lost, Gallyamov Says
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24. Russian Historians Tell Kyrgyz Scholars to Replace Term ‘Colonialism’ with the Word ‘Administration’
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25. Regional Expressions in Russian Far East Frequently have Chinese Roots
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26. Russians Wounded in Ukraine Face Unhappy Fate with Many Sent to Overcrowded Hospitals or Forced to Return to the Front Too Soon, ‘Novaya Gazeta Europe’ Says
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27. Russian Penal Officials Isolating Deserters and Those Convicted of Political Crimes from General Prison Population in Magadan, Grishin Says
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28. Siberia Offers Few Opportunities for Profitable Investments and So is Unlikely to Get Them, Verkhoturov Says
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29. Russian Veterans ‘Simply Don’t Fit into Existing Political Machinery,’ Kremlin has Concluded windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/russian-veterans-simply-dont-fit-into.html
30. Ukraine Can Win Unless Moscow Uses Nuclear Weapons or Sparks a Revolution in Kyiv, Pastukhov Says
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31. Declining Birthrates in Russian Villages Mean Rural Areas Can’t Compensate for Even Larger Declines in Russian Cities, Rosstat Figures Show
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32. Denunciation of Some Russians by Others has Tripled Over the Last Year – and Many are about Settling Scores Rather than Exposing Real Threats, Karpitskaya Says
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33. Putin Regime Even Less Tolerant of Jokes than Late Soviet One Was, ‘Important Stories’ Suggests
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34. Russians Very Much Aware Unemployment is Rising, Whatever Kremlin Says, New VTsIOM Survey Shows
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35. Moscow Arrests Ten Senior Muslim Leaders, Sending New Chill through Russia’s Islamic Community
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36. Tokayev’s Praise for the Golden Horde Gives Moscow a Taste of Its Own Medicine and Moscow Doesn’t Like It
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37. After Putin, Russia Must Either Modernize Quickly or Face Disintegration, ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
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38. Russia has Been Very Slow to Publicize Location of Bomb Shelters
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39. Putin’s Rewriting of History All About Shifting Responsibility for Past Crimes Away from the State, Shor-Tchudnovskaya Says
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40. Grozny’s ‘Embassy’ in Kazan Quite Active but Typically Below the Radar Screen
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41. Tatarstan Brings Its Nationality Policy Strategy Document Closely into Line with Moscow’s windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/tatarstan-brings-its-nationality-policy.html
42. Feminist Anti-War Resistance Documents Increasing Repression of Women in Russia windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/feminist-anti-war-resistance-documents.html
43. Belarus Both Spies on Russia and Spies for Russia, BelPol Project Says
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44. Russian Reformers Must Call for Different Kind of Strong State or Risk Continuation of Despotism, Bursygina and Filippov Say
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45. Erzyan Whose Family Denied Their Nationality More Angry at Russians who were Indifferent to Attacks on Her than Those who Did the Attacking
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46. Russians Getting Paid the Most in Their Thirties or Even Earlier and Not Just Before Retirement as is True Elsewhere, Rosstat Data Show
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47. ‘Even a New Mobilization Won’t Allow Russia to Achieve Victory in Ukraine,’ Rogov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/even-new-mobilization-wont-allow-russia.html
48. A Precedent Putin Hopes Won’t Hold True: Protests by Turbo-Patriots in 1916 Helped Bring Down Nicholas II
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49. Unable to Defend Population from Drone Attacks, Kremlin Allows Russian Industrialists to Buy Ever More Powerful Weaponry to Protect Their Interests
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50. Komi Activists Say Liquidation of Local Administrative Bodies ‘Especially Dangerous’ for Them and Other Dispersed Ethnic Minorities
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