Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / July 28, 2026
1. Kremlin and FSB Control of Senior Military Appointments Behind Failure of Russian Military in Ukraine, Focus Groups of Retired Officers Say
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2. Moscow, Convinced ‘Violence is Main Way to Solve Any Problem,’ has Little Interest in Limiting It in the Home, Women’s Rights Lawyer Says
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3. Russia’s Gas Shortage Not Only Boosting Inflation and Reducing Harvests But Also Limiting Road Repairs, ‘Moscow Times’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/russias-gas-shortage-not-only-boosting.html
4. Even Governors Imposed by Moscow Now Being Compelled to Choose Echo of Parade of Sovereignties to Forestall Unrest, Rybakova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/even-governors-imposed-by-moscow-now.html
5. Over Last 30 Years, Caspian Sea has Declined in Size by an Area the Size of Sicily and People around It are Getting Sick, ‘Kedr’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/over-last-30-years-caspian-sea-has.html
6. Adenauer’s Opposition to a United Germany in the 1920s Should be Recalled by Both Those Denounced as Wanting to Dismember Russia and Those Doing Such Denunciations, Eidman Says
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7. Bishkek’s Registration of NGO Seeking ‘Peaceful Reunification of China and Central Asia’ Triggers Outrage among Kyrgyz windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/bishkeks-registration-of-ngo-seeking.html
8. Gas Crisis Triggering ‘a Forced Spontaneous Federalization’ of Russia, ‘Vyorstka’ Portal Says
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9. Moscow and Astana Inch toward Cooperation on Second Trans-Border River Flowing into the Caspian
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/moscow-and-astana-inch-toward.html
10. World Cup Drawing Russian Viewers Away from Political Talk Shows, Mediascope Data Show
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/world-cup-drawing-russian-viewers-away.html
11. New Law Defining Who is a Writer May Change Little But Opens Door to Abuse, Experts Say
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12. Ukrainian Reaction to Firing of Defense Chief Proves ‘Ukraine is Not Russia,’ Eidman Says
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13. Career FSB Officer who heads Russia’s Agency for Nationality Affairs Demands International Community Stop Trying to Speak in Defense of His Country’s Minorities
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/career-fsb-officer-who-heads-russias.html
14. ‘Digital Archaeological Gap’ Hitting Central Asia Especially Hard
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15. Moscow Finalizing Plans to Take Baltic Countries to International Court of Justice over Their Treatment of Ethnic Russians windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/moscow-finalizing-plans-to-take-baltic.html
16. Ubykhs have Lost Their Language but Not Their Identity, Circassian Activist Says
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17. Muscovites Getting More Gas, People in Regions and Republics Less, CDB BENZ Says
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18. Russians Fear Returning Veterans, Thus Isolating Them and Making Them More Likely to Engage in Violence, ‘Barometer’ Sociologist Says
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19. Disaster Ahead This Winter for Russian North, United Russia Deputies in Arkhangelsk Parliament Warn
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/disaster-ahead-this-winter-for-russian.html
20. Putin Excluding Individuals and Groups from Common Legal Sphere Much as Nazis Did, Shumanov Says
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21. Baku Shipyard with Tools from the West Building Ships for Itself, its Caspian Littoral Neighbors and Foreign Customers Further Away
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22. Moscow Patriarchate Asks Faithful to Pray for Defense of Russian-Occupied Crimea and for Protecting Russia against Internal Conflicts
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/moscow-patriarchate-asks-faithful-to.html
23. If Northern Caspian Disappears, Russia will Lose Its Caspian Flotilla and Much Else Besides, Mammadov Says
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24. Scholars in the Russian Far East Say They have Developed a Bio-Cement to Help Build and Maintain Roads and Other Infrastructure in the Far North
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25. Gas Crisis Forcing Many Russians to Turn to Problem-Plagued Public Transport
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26. Ethnic and Regional Identities in Sakha Intensifying among Both Ethnic Sakha and Ethnic Russians Living in That Republic, Sociological Survey Shows
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27. Kremlin-Supported Fantasy Novel Posits a World in Which Top Leaders have Been Killed, Putin is Recovering from Wounds, and Moscow has Reassembled the Empire
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/kremlin-supported-fantasy-novel-posits.html
28. Globalization, Not Just Russianization, Leading Young Tatars to Stop Using Their Language, Shaykhin Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/globalization-not-just-russianization.html
29. Moscow Now Targeting Ukrainian Publishers and Books as Part of Effort to Destroy Ukrainian Culture, Butchenko Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/moscow-now-targeting-ukrainian.html
30. Trump’s Captive Nations Week Proclamation Focuses More on Threats in US than on Those Elsewhere
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/trumps-captive-nations-week.html
31. Not All Heads of Russia’s MSDs are Muftis with Right to Issue Fetwas, Kazan Mufti Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/not-all-heads-of-russias-msds-are.html
32. ‘Belarus isn’t Russia’ But Rather a Country ‘Five Minutes Away from Totalitarianism,’ Poczobut Says
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33. Russian Hostility Makes Tatar Woman More Attached to Her Own Nation and More Sympathetic to Other Non-Russians windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/russian-hostility-makes-tatar-woman.html
34. Russian Women who Left in 2022 More Often than Men Driven by Political Considerations, Kartushina Says
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/russian-women-who-left-in-2022-more.html
35. Moscow’s Policies about Books in Prisons Unwittingly Radicalizing Convicts
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/moscows-policies-about-books-in-prisons.html
36. As Restaurants Close and Economy Worsens, Another Revenant of Soviet Past Appears – the Stolovaya
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/as-restaurants-close-and-economy.html
37. More than Half of Russia’s 250,000 km Oil Pipelines Worn Out and Leaking or at Risk of Doing So in the Near Term, ‘Arctida’ Analyst Says
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38. Minority Parties in Duma Succeeding in Getting Their Own Bills Passed and Modifying United Russia Ones, New ‘Club of the Regions’ Report Says
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39. Russia Can Change Itself Not by Changing Policies Alone but Only by Changing the Mechanisms by which Its Policies are Chosen and Implemented, Kovalyev Says
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40. Putin Seeking to Reduce Nations to Folklore Alone
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41. Putin Purging Russia’s Libraries But in a Way that Means the Same Book May Be Treated Very Differently Depending on Who Published It
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42. Half of Tajiks Who’ve Returned Home from Russia Say They will Seek Work Abroad Again, IOM Study Finds
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43. Bacteria and Viruses Released by Melting of Permafrost Unlikely to Trigger a Widespread Pandemic but Will Infect Northern Peoples, Sakha Scholar Says
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44. AI Translations Bringing Books Kremlin has Banned to Russian Readers
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45. Russia Must Be Rebuilt from the Bottom Up with the Formation of Non-Ethnic Democratic Republics, Don Activist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/russia-must-be-rebuilt-from-bottom-up.html
46. Comparison with Central Asian Countries Shows Non-Russian Republics inside Russia ‘the Price of Dependence,’ Kazakhstan Portal Says
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47. Russia Already has Far More Veterans of Ukraine War than Kremlin Admits, Danish Expert Says, and That Means Their Impact will Be Far Greater
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48. Tone Deaf to Language and History, Volodin Chants ‘Russia, Putin, Victory’ Five Times
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49. Russia Doesn’t Have a Ministry for Nationality Affairs but Komi Republic Does
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/07/russia-doesnt-have-ministry-for.html
50. Moscow to Deploy Dirigibles to Better Defend Russia against Ukrainian Drones
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