Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 14, 2026   

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 14, 2026 



1.    Fear of Denunciations and Fines Closing Russia’s Independent Bookstores

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2.     Northeastern Russia Failing to Get Support for New Railroads from Either Moscow or Beijing

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3.     Ukraine’s Successful Drone Campaign May Not End the War on Kyiv’s Terms, Pastukhov Says

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4.     Moscow has More than Trebled Number of Criminal Cases against Russian Lawyers Since 2023-2024, Memorial Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/moscow-has-more-than-trebled-number-of.html

5.     Putin’s Campaign against Armenian PM Backfiring, Polls Suggest

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6.     Duma Now Focusing on How to Save ‘Ethnic Russian State-Forming People’

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7.     In Calling for Book on Putin’s Ancestors, University Head Says He ‘Understands What the Kremlin Expects’

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8.     Putin Plans to Return Dzerzhinsky Statue to Moscow’s Lubyanka Square Soon, Zygar Says

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9.     Since End of 2025, ‘Not a Single New Foreign Brand has Entered Russian Market,’ ‘Vedomosti’ Reports

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10.  Another Act of Muscovite Discrimination Against Non-Russians: Russian Officials Seek Return of Disproportionate Share of Ethnic Russian POWs

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11.  Russian Psychiatric Society Says Russian Troops in Ukraine Should Serve There No Longer than Six Months and in Many Cases Far Less Long

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12.  Russia has Been Redirecting Ukrainian Drones to Attack Latvian Targets, Riga Says

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13.  Varangian-Local Division No Longer Only One That Matters, Kynyev Says

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14.  New Ethnographic Dictionary of Terms Russian Soldiers in Ukraine Use Highlights Tension between Their Reality and What Moscow Says, Compilers Say

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15.  Central Asians Consume 2.5 to 5 Times the Amount of Water Russians Do, Ecologists Say

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16.  Officials Obscuring Siberia’s Economic Decline by Not Factoring Inflation into Statistics, Verkhoturov Says

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17.  Even for Housing without Indoor Plumbing, Residents of Regions Outside of Moscow Must Save for Years, ‘Horizontal Russia’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/even-for-housing-without-indoor.html

18.  Common Law Wives of Russian Soldiers Can Get Payments Only If Couple Lived Together and had at Least One Child Together, Moscow Rules

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19.  Russia under Putin ‘an Information Dictatorship, Not a Totalitarian State’ and Humor There Reflects That, Arkhipova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/russia-under-putin-information.html

20.  Last Year, 96 Percent of Russians Moscow Called ‘Foreign Agents’ Didn’t Get Any Funding from Abroad

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21.  Violent Attacks in Russian Schools Reach All-Time High, Prompting Calls to have Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine Guard Them https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/violent-attacks-in-russian-schools.html

22.  For Russia to Catch Up with Advanced Countries, It Needs Concrete rather than Asphalt Highways, Duma Member Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/for-russia-to-catch-up-with-advanced.html

23.  Ukrainian Drones Transforming Russia’s Enormous Size ‘From an Asset to a Liability,’ Sergey Medvedev Says

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24.  An Inspiration for Others – Russian Environmental Activists Win Record 175 Victories in 2025

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25.  New Organization Focusing on Russia Outside of Moscow Registered in US

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26.  ‘The Russian Economy isn’t Dying; It’s Being Sovietized by Means of Force and Violence,’ Lea and Tashkin Say

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27.  Samizdat and Tamizdat Today Different from What They were in Soviet Times, Klots Says

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28.  In Online Vote, 4,000 Karelians ‘Like’ a Post Calling for Ouster of Their Republic’s Leaders

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29.  Fate of Ethnic Finns in USSR Detailed in New Book and Electronic Data Base

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30.  Putin Tells Shipbuilding Corporation Head There Must Not Be Further Delays in Building Icebreakers

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31.  ‘To Intimidate a Thousand Russians, One Need Punish Only One,’ Rights Activists Say

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32.  Russia’s Conflict with the West will Last ‘Decades’ and be Both Hot and Cold, Bezrukov Says

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33.  Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate Rejects Suggestions Its Imams are Promoting Extremism

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34.  One in Every Four Russian Veterans of Putin’s War in Ukraine has Lost One Leg or Two, Moscow Says

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35.  Moscow Patriarchate and Christianity More Generally Losing ‘Commanding Heights’ in South Caucasus to Islam, Moscow Scholar Says

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36.  Russians have Little Interest in Books about Putin’s War in Ukraine, Publishers Tell ‘Vyorstka’

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37.  Pechenga on Border with Finland and Norway Seeks Status of a Russian Closed Military Town

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38.  Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul May Die as Aral Sea has Unless It Gets More Water from River in China, Bishkek Experts Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/kyrgyzstans-lake-issyk-kul-may-die-as.html

39.   Some Russian Libraries May See as Much as 70 Percent of Their Books Removed Because of Moscow’s Laws on ‘Foreign Agents’ and ‘Undesirable Organizations’

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40.  Russian Laws Against Animal Cruelty are Tough but Seldom Enforced by the Authorities or Followed by the Population, ‘Kedr’ Portal Says

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41.  Leading Opposition Figures in Kabardino-Balkaria Denounce Call to Strip from Republic’s Constitution Guarantees of Its Territorial Integrity

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42.  Both Directly and Indirectly, Putin’s War in Ukraine Means Ever More Russians are Breathing Unhealthy Air

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43.  Crimean Tatar Partisan Movement Now Operating Inside Russian Federation

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44.  Resistance to Moscow’s Plan to Eliminate Local Municipalities Taking Political Form

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45.  Another Symbolic Date Passes: Putin’s War in Ukraine Now Longer than Russia’s in World War I which Triggered Revolution windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/another-symbolic-date-passes-putins-war.html

46.  Russia ‘On Brink of Social Explosion’ Because of Kremlin Policies over the Last 25 Years, KPRF Duma Deputy from Buryatia Warns windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/russia-on-brink-of-social-explosion.html

47.  Win or Lose in Ukraine, Moscow Likely to Lose Part of Russia’s Periphery in the Next Decade, MGIMO Scholar Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/win-or-lose-in-ukraine-moscow-likely-to.html

48.  KPRF has Found a Formula to Criticize Putin without Naming Him that Recalls What Milyukov Did in 1916, Gallyamov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/kprf-has-found-formula-to-criticize.html

49.  Former Russian Militiaman Sentenced for Urging that Moscow be Isolated from Rest of the Country

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50.  Putin’s Call for Renaming Russian Streets and Schools after Soldiers who Died Fighting in His War Likely to Spark Controversy windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putins-call-for-renaming-russian.html

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