Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 30, 2026

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 30, 2026



1.     Only by Maintaining Schools in Rural Areas Can Russia Hope to Avoid Depopulation of Much of the Country, Shelishch Says

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2.     Putin Signs Measure Eliminating Mandatory Historical-Cultural Review of Restoration Projects, Opening the Door to the Destruction of Many

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3.     Moscow Organizes Summer School in Svalbard to Expand Russian Influence There

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4.     Ecumenical Patriarch ‘Completes Process’ of Restoring Orthodox Church in Lithuania to Constantinople’s Jurisdiction, Furman Says

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5.     United Russia Deputies Block Karelian Parliament from Discussing Problems of Karelian Village whose Water Supply has Been Cut Off for Almost a Month

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6.     RSFSR Sovereignty Declaration Response to Moves by Baltic Republics, Moldova and Georgia, Baburin Says

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7.     Kazan Institute of History Set Up in 1996 to Help Tatars Recover Their Identity has ‘Moved Away from Concept of the National Liberation Struggle,’ Salikhov Says

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8.     ‘Main Result’ of Moscow’s Nationality Policy has Been that Russia Remains Stable, FADN Report to Duma Says

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9.     Moscow’s Efforts to Promoting Civic Identity in North Caucasus May Be Opening the Way for the Rise Not Only for More Islamic Identity but Also Even Islamist Extremism

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10.  Kremlin Now Fighting Divorce in Russia, ‘a Problem that Doesn’t Exist,’ To Be Precise Says

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11.  Kamchatka Meeting on Demography in Russian Far East Highlights Two Changes in Moscow’s Approach

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12.  Central Asian Populations Continue to Look to Russia Because of Transfer Payments but Governments and Business Increasingly Look to China because of Beijing’s Investments

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13.  In a Continuing Act of Genocide, Russia has Been Attacking Ukrainian Cultural Sites since 2014

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14.  Moscow Hopeful UN will Soon Approve Its Claims to Enormous Segment of Arctic Shelf

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15.  90 Percent of Russians Say They’d Back Law against Domestic Violence Something Putin Did Away with in Name of Traditional Values

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16.  Veterans Groups Becoming Shock Troops for Putin’s Whitewashing of Stalin’s Crimes windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/veterans-groups-becoming-shock-troops.html

17.  Putin Regime Now Views Those It Persecutes ‘Not as Ordinary Criminals but as Enemies of the State’ and Punishes Them Accordingly, Memorial Says

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18.  Many Countries Became Stronger after Defeats and Weaker after Victories and Russian has and Can Again Do So, Russian Blogger Says

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19.  Putin’s ‘Turn to the East’ has Not Overcome the Divide between the More Prosperous Western Portion of Russia and the More Depressed Eastern One, Academy of Sciences Study Says

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20.  More than 40 Circassian Organizations in Turkey Weigh In Against Plans to Strip KBR Constitution of Provisions on Defense of that Republic’s Borders

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21.  Russia May Never See Another Upward Wave of Demographic Growth, Academy of Sciences Scholar Says

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22.  Kadyrov Treats Russians Far More Tolerantly than He Does Chechens, Pleasing Moscow but Alienating His Own People, ‘NeMoskva’ Says

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23.  Moscow’s Violation of Rights of Indigenous Peoples ‘Systemic in Nature,’ New ‘Arctida’ Study Says

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24.  Russian Economy ‘Doesn’t Need Universal Higher Education,’ Minister who Oversees Universities and Science Says

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25.  Ukraine’s Drone Attacks on Moscow Won’t have the Immediate Impact Many Expect, Pastukhov Says

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26.  Andrey Danilov, ‘the Saami Navalny,’ Says Separatism is ‘Nonsense’ for His Nation but that It will Survive

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27.  Russia Media Losing Audiences as People are Tired of Bad News and as Aggregator Algorithms Expand, Commentator Says

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28.  Infertility Increasing and Affecting Ever Younger Russians, Experts Say

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29.  Kremlin will Use Indebtedness of Russia’s Federal Subjects to Impose Even Tighter Central Control, Economist Says

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30.  Popularity of Conspiracy Theories about Demise of USSR Intended to Distract Attention from Real Causes, Tsipko Says

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31.  Northern Sea Route Development Experiencing Delays and Cost Overruns Because of Shortages of Skilled Workers and Attempts to Attract Them with High Salaries

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32.  Moscow’s Compatriots Program Unintentionally Leading to Formation and Growth of Ethnic Enclaves in Russian Federation

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33.  Baku Lining Karabakh Canal and Other Waterways with Concrete to Reduce Water Losses

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34.  New Putin-Backed Measure Makes It Easier to Add or More Likely Remove Nations from List of Indigenous Peoples

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35.  Putin’s ‘Special Military Operation’ has ‘Saved Russia’ from NATO Attack, Matviyenko Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/putins-special-military-operation.html

36.  Moscow Orders ‘Destructive Literature’ Be Kept in Special Library Collections Most Russians Won’t be Allowed to See

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37.  ‘Shariat Patrol’ Controlled Dagestani Village ‘for More than a Decade,’ Investigators Say

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38.  Online Sales of Books Especially Important for Non-Russian Peoples in Russia

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39.  If Current Trends Continues, the Tatar Language will Disappear in 45 Years and the Survival of the Tatar Nation will be at Risk, Lobova Says

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40.  For First Time, UN Body Puts Russian Forces in Ukraine on Its List of Worst Perpetrators of Sexualized Violence

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/for-first-time-un-body-puts-russian.html

41.  United Russia Routinely Blocks Public Efforts to Protect the Environment, New Report Shows

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/united-russia-routinely-blocks-public.html

42.  Russian Couples who “Live Together Outside of Marriage Threaten Country’s National Security,’ Deputy Justice Minister Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/russian-couples-who-live-together.html

43.  Even Though Moscow has Not Yet Annexed South Ossetia, Some are Now Asking Whether It will Absorb Abkhazia Next

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44.  Kremlin Approves Building Fifth Mosque in Moscow, Simultaneously Giving Boost to Mufti Krganov and Promoting Quiescence and Religious Syncretism

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/kremlin-approves-building-fifth-mosque.html

45.  Censorship Restrictions ‘Far from Only or Most Important’ Reason for Decline in Russian Publishing Industry, Experts Say

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/censorship-restrictions-far-from-only.html

46.  Moscow Offers West’s Extreme Right Validation Because It No Longer has Much Else to Offer Anyone Else, Memorial Researcher Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/moscow-offers-wests-extreme-right.html

47.  Calls for ‘a CIS without Russia’ Doomed to Failure, Mendkovich Says

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48.  Bastrykhin Wants to Amend Russian Constitution to Allow for a State Ideology like China’s

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/bastrykhin-wants-to-amend-russian.html

49.  Neo-Stalinism and Political Islam Increasingly in Symbiotic Relationship in Russia, Advocate of Secularism and Humanism Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/neo-stalinism-and-political-islam.html

50.  China Now Dredging Kazakhstan’s Caspian Ports as It is Already Doing Russia’s

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/06/china-now-dredging-kazakhstans-caspian.html

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