Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / September 20, 2026
1. Ukraine Objects to How Crimea is Shown on New World Map UNGA has Overwhelmingly Approved
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2. CORRECTED VERSION: Erdoğan’s Words about ‘Reclaiming Ajaria’ Generated by AI
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3. In ‘Novaya Gazeta’ Case, Moscow Making the Transition from ‘Individual to Collective Repression,’ Kolezev Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-novaya-gazeta-case-moscow-making.html
4. Putin Supports Plan to Man Air Defense in Regions with Those ‘Absolutely Unsuitable’ for Military Service
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5. Putin Advisor Says Ukrainians on Course to Disappear as a Nation by End of This Century
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6. Kumyk Could Again Become Lingua France of North Caucasus, Alpaut Says
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7. Putin’s Assumptions about Western Weakness Pushing Russia toward Strategic Defeat, Gallyamov Says, Just as Happened to USSR at Its End
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8. Kremlin Outlets Outraged Armenian Leader Spoke in Armenian rather than Russian at Shanghai Cooperation Organization windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/kremlin-outlets-outraged-armenian.html
9. Regional Governments Freeze Salaries of Government Workers to Pay Volunteers to Fight in Putin’s War
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10. Since 2000, Murmansk Regional Government has Moved from Protecting Ethnic Minorities to Promoting ‘Friendship of the Peoples’
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11. Russians Not Telling Jokes about Putin Not Only Because They Fear Repression but Also Because They Care More about Other Russians than about Him, Arkhipova Says
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12. Representatives of Extreme Russian Nationalist Groups Formed Ony Two Percent of Participants in Moscow Procession, SOVA Says
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13. Moscow Should be Worried about Discontent of Ethnic Russians and Not Just Discontent of Non-Russians, Molchanov Says windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/moscow-should-be-worried-about.html
14. ‘Russia Community’ Sees Itself as Political Force in the Future, SOVA Analyst Says
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15. Officials in Sakha Erect Memorial to Two Soldiers who Died in Ukraine in Place of One Devoted to Poles and Lithuanians Deported There in 19th Century
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16. New Two-Volume Work Catalogues State of More than 5500 Armenian Sites in Karabakh
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17. Russian Health Ministry Abolishes Positions for 14 Medical Fields while Creating Places for a Few New Ones
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18. Twenty Years On, Kondopoga Clashes Still Cast a Shadow across Russia and Former Soviet Space
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19. New Rosneft Oil Field in Far North Destroying Vast Areas of Vulnerable Tundra and Harming Indigenous Peoples who Live There windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-rosneft-oil-field-in-far-north.html
20. Russian Only Language in Russia Not at Risk of Dying Out, Academy of Sciences Says
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21. Anti-Semitism No Longer at Center of Russian Nationalism, Verkhovsky Says
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22. Declining Water Level of Caspian Forcing Ships to Change Their Routes and Preventing Larger Vessels from Using Many Ports, Experts Say
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23. Middle Corridor Carrying Four Times More Cargo toward the West than towards the East, Klevtsov Says
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24. Moscow’s Policies Disproportionately Hurting Women in Indigenous Communities, Four Human Rights Organizations Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/moscows-policies-disproportionately.html
25. Udmurt Scholar who Committed Suicide 7 Years Ago to Protest Murder of His Native Language Remembered by Others Moscow is Oppressing
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26. Russia’s Hybrid War against the West has Been Ongoing for 200 Years, Lea and Borukh Say
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27. Bashkir Advocate of Federalism Putin Personally Ordered the Arrest of Released from Prison after Serving More than Seven Years windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/bashkir-advocate-of-federalism-putin.html
28. Veterans of Putin’s War Ever More Frequently Attacked or Even Killed on Their Return Home and They Want New Law to Protect Them
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29. Inflation in Russia Hitting Poor Far Harder than Those Better Off as Prices for Basic Foodstuffs Inceasing Nearly Twice as Fast as Overall Inflation, Rosstat Reports
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30. Aral Sea Basin Now a CO2 Emitter which Threatens to Increase Global Warming rather than a C02 Sink which Restrained that Trend, Kazakh Analysts Say
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31. FSB Fighting Losing Battle against Illegal Armorers who Convert Weapons flowing into Russia from Putin’s War in Ukraine windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/fsb-fighting-losing-battle-against.html
32. Church Procession in Petersburg Mirrors One in Moscow and Attracts Few Extreme Nationalists, SOVA Reports
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33. Having Provoked Anti-Russian Attitudes in Central Asia with Tough New Migration Policies, Moscow must Get Ready to Evacuate ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Russians from There, Aksyonov Says
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34. Almost Half of Russia’s Regions Now Paying Bonuses to School-Age Girls who Give Birth Despite Public Opposition and Expert Predictions Such Aid won’t Boost Birthrate
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35. Russia’s Parliamentary Parties Adopting Ever More Radical Anti-Immigrant Positions as Election Approaches windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/russias-parliamentary-parties-adopting.html
36. Laboratory of the Future Asks Russians Whether Their Country Even Needs a Parliament
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37. Piontkovsky Asks ‘Will the Russain Federation Survive until 2028?’
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38. Kalmyk Activist Charged with Rehabilitating Nazism Because He Wrote a Year Ago that Soviet Soldiers Acted “like Nazis” when They Deported His Nation in 1943
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39. Over Last 15 Years, Number of Abortions in Russia Fell by 75 Percent, ‘Vedomosti’ Reports, Precisely the Period in Which Russian Fertility Rates Fell as Well
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40. So Far This Year, Kazakhstan Disarms and Arrests 22 Criminal Groups who Seek to Hide Their Activities by Pushing ‘Extremist Religious Ideologies,’ Astana Says
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41. In Almost Half of Single Member Duma Districts East of the Urals, There is at Least One Anti-War Candidate, People of Baikal Portal Says
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42. Restricted 2025 Moscow Document Outlines Kremlin Plans to Go After Russophobic Elements in the Army and the FSB, ‘Meduza’ Reports
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43. Armenia Doesn’t Need a Russian Base but If Moscow Wants to Keep It, Yerevan is Prepared to Discuss the Conditions for That, Pashinyan Says
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44. In a Post-Putin Transition, Today’s Tighttly Controlled Duma could Evolve as the RSFSR Supreme Soviet Did in Gorbachev’s Time, Quickly and Dramatically, Uvarov Says
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45. Russian and Ukrainian Drone Strikes Won’t Bring Peace Closer from Position of Strength or that of Weakness but Rather Give Rise to Anger that Will Prolong the War, Pastukhov Says
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46. Lukashenka Says He and Putin Often Argue ‘Jokingly’ over Who is ‘Bigger Dictator’
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47. Moscow is Actively Recruiting Russians Abroad to Serve as ‘Fifth Column’ against Countries Where They Live, Lea and Taskin Say windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/09/moscow-is-actively-recruiting-russians.html
48. Russian Forces Responsible for 89 Percent of Rapes and Sexualized Violence in Course of Putin’s War in Ukraine, UN Monitoring Mission Says
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49. More than Half of Russian Households have a Cat and a Fifth a Dog but All Too Often Lose These Pets to the Streets, Russian Experts Say
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50. Western Predictions about Who Will Succeed Putin Missing the Main Thing, ‘Important Theme’ Portal Says
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