[NEWS[ Five Windw on Eurasia links: Estonia, eugenics

[rfmcdonald]

• Window on Eurasia notes how Russia continues to oppose the recognition of the 1920 Treaty of Tartu as the basis for Russia-Estonia relations, here.


• Window on Eurasia reports on how, and why, Stalin cracked down on eugenics as a permissible theory in the Soviet Union, here.


• Window on Eurasia reports on polling suggesting Russians are more interested in their country acting as a great power than as an empire, here.


• Window on Eurasia notes how, in the space of the former Soviet Union, population growth in the six Muslim-majority republics more than compensates in absolute numbers for declines elsewhere.


• Window on Eurasia notes the resettlement of a couple hundred Old Believers, part of a diaspora of perhaps seven thousand, in the Far East of Russia.

Comments

[dewline]

As that blog keeps reminding us: Russia is not a monolithic place. Putin would like to make it so or appear so...but he can't manage that, can he?