Pavel Baev
22 Sep 2020
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) With its latest double breach of norms of international behavior—poisoning the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and embracing the discredited Belarusian autocrat, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka—Russia has managed to unite Europe in outrage. Last week (September 17), the...
PONARS Eurasia
21 Sep 2020
Russia's Foreign Policy: Soft, Hard, Smart Power
Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.
Featuring:
Maria Snegovaya (Johns Hopkins University)
Alexandra Yatsyk (Polish Institute of Advanced Studies...
Elizabeth Wishnick
18 Sep 2020
(China's Resource Risks) The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as of December 2019, after nearly thirty years of discussion. Despite this dilatory timeline, plans for a second Russia-China pipeline, to be completed by 2030, are coalescing. The new project, Power of...
Natalya Chernyshova
17 Sep 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Unprecedented mass protests in Belarus against the rigged presidential elections on August 9 continue into their sixth week with no signs of abating. They are massive, tenacious, and draw on a remarkably broad social and geographical base. These qualities, combined with...
Kimberly MartenKimberly Marten
15 Sep 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Just when you think you know where Russia’s Wagner Group “private” military company (PMC) is deployed, it pops up somewhere else. In the past year, its members have been spotted in Mozambique, Libya, and Belarus, adding to their prior roles in eastern Ukraine, Syria,...
PONARS Eurasia
15 Sep 2020
How Has COVID-19 Impacted Regime Legitimacy in Eurasia?
Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.
"The Impact of COVID-19 on Popular Attitudes in Central Asia"
Pauline Jones (University of Michigan)
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Samuel Charap
15 Sep 2020
(Marshall Center) Executive Summary: There is a mismatch between the Western concept of deterrence and the Russian concept of sderzhivanie, and particularly strategic sderzhivanie. Strategic sderzhivanie encompasses the Western concepts of coercive statecraft, deterrence, compellence, and intra-war...
Maria Snegovaya
15 Sep 2020
(Monkey Cage) Russians don’t like military adventures in bad economic times, my research finds.
Yesterday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi to discuss closer integration. The ongoing political unrest in Belarus — a small country that...
PONARS Eurasia
15 Sep 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Podcast) In this week's episode, Maria Lipman chats with Natalya Chernyshova (University of Winchester) and Nikolay Petrov (Chatham House) about the ongoing protests in Belarus and their implications for the regime.
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Pavel Baev
15 Sep 2020
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Five weeks of peaceful mass protests in Belarus after the falsified elections on August 9, have profoundly changed this formerly rather stable and conservative country, impressed its European neighbors, and set a sharp challenge for Russia, which is tied to this partner in a...
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