Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / September 5, 2026
1. Moscow Transforming Groups which Oppose It and Using Them Under Their Original Names to Push Its Own Line
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2. 37 Years On, Baltic Chain Continues to Inspire Non-Russians Elsewhere
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3. Moscow will Promote Traditional Values but Only ‘Delicately and Subtly,’ Kremlin Aide Says
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4. Russian Literature Now Threatened by Both Censorship and AI, Two Phenomena which Re-Enforce One Another, Literary Critic Says
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5. To Keep Armenia in Russia’s Orbit, Moscow May Soon Use Migration Weapon, Shustov Suggests
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6. More than Their Elders, Younger Russians View Corruption as ‘Normal’ and Even Acceptable and are Less Willing to Cooperate in Struggle against It, Moscow Sociologist Says
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7. Moscow Rapidly Expanding Use of AI Technology to Increase Repression of Non-Russians, Saami Activist Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/moscow-rapidly-expanding-use-of-ai.html
8. Outcome of Kazakhstan Election Shows Where Russia and Other Post-Soviet States are Likely Heading, Grashchenkov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/outcome-of-kazakhstan-election-shows.html
9. In at Least a Fifth of Russia’s Federal Subjects, Forcible Mobilization for War in Ukraine Already Taking Place De Facto, Rights Activists Report
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10. Putin Elite has Three Immediate Reasons for Devoting Ever More Attention to Emigres, Sonin Says
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11. Azerbaijani-Central Asian Relations Acquiring a Military Dimension, Kazakhstan Portal Says
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12. Putin’s ‘Authoritarian Legalism’ has Soviet Not East German Roots, Lea and Taskin Say
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13. Putin’s ‘Optimization’ Policy and War in Ukraine have Made Doctors and Nurses among the Most ‘Protest Prone’ Groups in Russia, Expert Says
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14. Russian Universities Increasingly Recruiting Students to Serve in Putin’s War and Offering Drone Studies Programs
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15. Russians and Ukrainians Increasingly Divided in Their Assessment of Stalin, Levada Center Reports
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16. Northern Sea Route Shows that ‘Shortest Path is Not Necessarily the Most Profitable,’ Inozemtsev Says
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17. For Five Reasons, the Russian Empire Won’t Revive This Time Around, Independent Ukrainian Blogger Says
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18. Russia’s Gas Crisis Prompting Central Asian Countries to Look Elsewhere for Fuel, Kazakh Commentator Says https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/russias-gas-crisis-prompting-central.html
19. Moscow Mulls Creation of Folklore Day and Folklore Medal, Two More Steps in the Reduction of Non-Russian Nations to Folklore Alone
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20. Immigrant Workers Now Outnumber Indigenous Non-Russians in Many Cities of the Urals, Moscow Expert on Regional Affairs Says
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21. Caspian’s Water Level Decline Accelerating Despite Expectations that the Sea’s Declining Surface Area would Mean Less Evaporation
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22. Hard-Pressed Siberian Oblast Cuts Budget for Two Minority Groups for Third Year in a Row
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23. As Long as Putin’s War in Ukraine Continues, Russian Economy will Stagnate, ‘Consensus’ Forecast of HSE Economists Holds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/as-long-as-putins-war-in-ukraine.html
24. Altay Shamans Say Unearthing of Siberian Mummy Loosed Violence on the World –including War in Ukraine
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25. Putin’s ‘Optimization’ Cammpaign which First Hit Medical Points and Local Governments is Now Leading to School Consolidation – and Parents are Protesting
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26. Putin’s Monopoly on ‘Russianness’ has Allowed Him to Continue to Wage War in Ukraine and Must Be Challenged, Bilunov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/putins-monopoly-on-russianness-has.html
27. Putin’s Russia Embodiment Today of Fraenkel’s ‘Dual State’ Theory about Nazi Germany, Lea and Borukh Say
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28. Chinese Students in Russian Universities Using AI Translations rather than Learning Russian, Moscow Official Complains windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/chinese-students-in-russian.html
29. Anyone with Courage Can Become a Human Rights Defender Even in Authoritarian Countries, Tajikistan’s Bobonazerova Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/anyone-with-courage-can-become-human.html
30. Wealth, Urbanization, and Small Populations Make Khanty-Mansiisk and Yamalo-Nenets ADs Best Places to Have Children in Russia Today, ‘To Be Precise’ Says
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31. Development of Shipping Routes in Arctic will Cost More than 120 Billion US Dollars over Next Decade, Rosatom Head Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/08/development-of-shipping-routes-in.html
32. Putin Should Follow Trump’s Example and Give Russian Names to Wherever He Likes, Leaving the US with ‘Only a Lake in Canada,’ ‘Svobodnaya Pressa’ Writer Says
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33. Moscow Fighting Regional Identities with Russia Propaganda Centers Beyond the Ring Road
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34. Minor Events in Russia Repeatedly Trigger Protests but These are About More than Their Nominal Causes, ‘Versiya’ Commentator Says
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35. Khasavyurt, ‘A Unique Event in Post-Soviet Russian History’ Deserves to Be Remembered, Shtepa Says
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36. Immigration Only Temporary Solution to Russia’s Population Decline and One that Won’t Last, Sinelnikov Says
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37. Half of Russians Now Depressed, Helping Kremlin Now but Undermining Russia over Longer Term, Academy of Sciences Study Suggests windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/half-of-russians-now-depressed-helping.html
38. Like ‘Soviet’ in USSR Times, ‘Russian’ Today is a Constructed and Imposed Identity rather than an Innate One, Shamolin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/like-soviet-in-ussr-times-russian-today.html
39. After Russia Disintegrates, Three Russian Oblasts — Samara, Saratov and Ulyanovsk — Should Form a Volga Republic, Mulyukin Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/after-russia-disintegrates-three.html
40. Central Asians and All Others Must View Russian and Soviet History as ‘a History of Colonialism,’ Kazakh Historian Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/central-asians-and-all-others-must-view.html
41. Putin’s Much Ballyhooed ‘Time of Heroes’ Program to Make Veterans New Elite Being Quietly Shut Down, ‘Agents Media’ Reports windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/putins-much-ballyhooed-time-of-heroes.html
42. Ingushetia Plays Down 1992 War with North Ossetia but is Worried Enough about That Clash to Bring in Police from Vladivostok to Man Border Post
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43. Few Russians are Prepared to Call Putin a Criminal but Most are Now Ready to Label Him Incompetent, Gallyamov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/few-russians-are-prepared-to-call-putin.html
44. Russian Firms Less Likely to Hire Those who Took Bonuses to Fight in Ukraine than Those who Didn’t, New Finds windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/russian-firms-less-likely-to-hire-those.html
45. Neither Rising Age of First-Time Mothers Nor War in Ukraine has Any Significant Impact on Russia’s Birthrate, Independent Demographer Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/neither-rising-age-of-first-time.html
46. Russia’s Standup Comedians Now Hiring Lawyers to Advise Them about Jokes that Could Land Them in Jail, ‘The Insider’ Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/russias-standup-comedians-now-hiring.html
47. Russian Firms in Far East Registering in China to Escape High Taxes and Get Cheaper Loans
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48. With Norwegian Seizure of Russian Ship, Svalbard Controversy Heats Up Again
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49. ‘Horizontal Russia’ Lists Seven Steps Russian Voters Can Take to Limit Violations
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50. With Decision of European Court of Human Rights, Russians Lose Their Court of Last Resort – and Rights Activists Aren’t Pleased windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/with-decision-of-european-court-of.html
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