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  • The Putin-Xi Summit: What's New In Their Joint Communique ? February 23, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman speaks with Russian China experts Vita Spivak and Alexander Gabuev about the February meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and what it may tell us about where the Russian-Chinese relationship is headed.
  • Exploring the Russian Courts' Ruling to Liquidate the Memorial Society January 28, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with scholars Kelly Smith and Benjamin Nathans about the history, achievements, and impending shutdown of the Memorial Society, Russia's oldest and most venerable civic organization, and what its imminent liquidation portends for the Russian civil society.
  • Russia's 2021 census and the Kremlin's nationalities policy [Lipman Series 2021] December 9, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with social scientist Andrey Shcherbak about the quality of the data collected in the recent population census and the goals of Vladimir Putin's government's nationalities policy
  • Active citizens of any kind are under threat [Lipman Series 2021] November 5, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Alexander Verkhovsky about the Kremlin's ever expanding toolkit against political and civic activists, journalists, and other dissidents.
  • Russia's Legislative Elections followup [Lipman Series 2021] October 4, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Tanya Lokot and Nikolay Petrov about the results of Russia’s legislative elections and about what comes next.
  • Why Is the Kremlin Nervous? [Lipman Series 2021] September 14, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov about Russia’s September 17-19 legislative elections, repressive measures against electoral challengers, and whether to expect anything other than preordained results.
  • Vaccine Hesitancy in Russia, France, and the United States [Lipman Series 2021] August 31, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Denis Volkov, Naira Davlashyan, and Peter Slevin about why COVID-19 vaccination rates are still so low across the globe, comparing vaccine hesitant constituencies across Russia, France, and the United States.  
  • Is Russia Becoming More Soviet? [Lipman Series 2021] July 26, 2021
      In a new PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Maxim Trudolyubov about the current tightening of the Russian political sphere, asking whether or not it’s helpful to draw comparisons to the late Soviet period.
  • The Evolution of Russia's Political Regime [Lipman Series 2021] June 21, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Grigory Golosov and Henry Hale about the evolution of Russia's political regime, and what to expect in the lead-up to September's Duma elections.
  • Volodymyr Zelensky: Year Two [Lipman Series 2021] May 24, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sergiy Kudelia and Georgiy Kasianov about Ukrainian President Zelensky's second year in office, and how he has handled the political turbulence of the past year.
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Tymofii Brik
Core Member | Website | + posts
Rector and Professor

Affiliation

Kyiv School of Economics

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Post-Communist Transformations, Post-Soviet Institutions, Elites and Identities, Media Development, Migration, Sovereignty, Governance
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    Ukraine’s “Type 4” Conflict: Why Is It Important To Study Terminology Before Changing It?
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    They All Are Doing Badly: Ukrainians Opinions About Governance During the Pandemic
  • Tymofii Brik
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tymofii-brik/
    Notes from Kyiv | Tymofii Brik
Petro Burkovskyi
Core Member | Website | + posts
Executive Director

Affiliation

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF), Ukraine

Links

Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF) (Bio)

Expertise

History, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional Law, Security Policy, Energy Policy, International Relations, Propaganda
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Will Ukraine’s 2019 Elections Be a Turning Point? Unlikely, but Dangers Lurk
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    The Current Tensions Around Donbas
  • Petro Burkovskyi
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/petro-burkovskyi/
    Why Would Western Policymakers Favor a Ukrainian Stalemate Over Victory?
Hannah Chapman
Core Member | Website | + posts
Theodore Romanoff Assistant Professor of Russian Studies; Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies

Affiliation

University of Oklahoma

Links

University of Oklahoma (Bio); Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative Politics, Public Opinion, Political Communication in Non-Democracies, Russian and Post-Soviet Regional Politics
  • Hannah Chapman
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/hannah-chapman/
    The Destruction of Academic Freedom and Social Science in Russia
  • Hannah Chapman
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/hannah-chapman/
    All Fraud Is Not Created Equal: Recent Electoral Manipulation Practices are Less Likely to Incite Public Ire
Stephen Crowley
Core Member | Website | + posts
Professor and Chair, Department of Politics

Affiliation

Oberlin College

Links

Oberlin College (Bio)

Expertise

Politics, Russian and East European Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Stephen Crowley
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stephen-crowley/
    Russia’s Truckers and the Path from Economic to Political Protest
  • Stephen Crowley
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stephen-crowley/
    Global Cities Versus Russian Rustbelt Realities
  • Stephen Crowley
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/stephen-crowley/
    Who’s to Blame? Sanctions, Economic Hardship, and Putin’s Fear of Color Revolutions
Jesse Driscoll
Core Member | Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Political Science; Chair, Global Leadership Institute

Affiliation

University of California San Diego

Links

University of California San Diego (Bio)

Expertise

Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States, Central Asia, Caucasus, Russian-Speaking World
  • Jesse Driscoll
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/jesse-driscoll/
    Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?
Emil Dzhuraev
Core Member | Website | + posts
Teaching Fellow; Political Scientist

Affiliation

OSCE Academy in Bishkek; Crossroads Central Asia

Links

Crossroads Central Asia (Bio)

Expertise

Political Institutions and Processes, Central Asian Politics
  • Emil Dzhuraev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/emil-dzhuraev/
    Transition Plans Gone Awry: Is the Downfall of Atambayev an Argument for Democracy?
  • Emil Dzhuraev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/emil-dzhuraev/
    To Justify, Demonize, Normalize: Putin’s Language of War and Central Asian Neutrality
Natalia Forrat
Core Member | Website | + posts
Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Visiting Research Associate, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Affiliation

University of Michigan; Stanford University

Links

University of Michigan (Bio); Stanford University (Bio); Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Authoritarianism, State-Society Relations, State Capacity, Civil Society, Contemporary Russia
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Ivan Gomza
Core Member | Website | + posts
Research Professor, Public Policy and Governance

Affiliation

Kyiv School of Economics

Links

Kyiv School of Economics (Bio)

Expertise

Democratization, Authoritarian Regimes, Contentious Politics, Good Governance
  • Ivan Gomza
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ivan-gomza/
    Quenching Fire with Gasoline: Why Flawed Terminology Will Not Help to Resolve the Ukraine Crisis
  • Ivan Gomza
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ivan-gomza/
    Justice Without a Blindfold: The Complex Politicization of a Notorious Ukrainian Court
  • Ivan Gomza
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ivan-gomza/
    Ukraine Rides High While COVID-19 Lays Neighbors Low: But for How Long?
  • Ivan Gomza
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/ivan-gomza/
    Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield
Farid Guliyev
Core Member | Website | + posts
Postdoctoral Fellow

Affiliation

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Links

Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Caspian Energy, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Political Institutions, Public Policy, Governance of Natural Resources
  • Farid Guliyev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/farid-guliyev/
    Is Putin Emulating Azerbaijan in 2008-09? Modifying Term Limits Under Economic Uncertainty
  • Farid Guliyev
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/farid-guliyev/
    Divide and Co-Opt: Government-Opposition Relations in Azerbaijan in the Wake of COVID-19
Cole Harvey
Core Member | Website | + posts
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Oklahoma State University

Links

Oklahoma State University (Bio); Personal Website (Bio)

Expertise

Non-Democratic Politics, Electoral Manipulation, Post-Communist Politics, Protest
    This author does not have any more posts.
Laura Henry
Core Member | Website | + posts
Professor of Government and Acting Chair of Russian Department

Affiliation

Bowdoin College

Links

Bowdoin College (Bio)

Expertise

Russian Politics, Eastern Europe, Environmental Politics, Social Movements, Civil Society, BRICS, Arctic, Environmental and Climate Politics, Indigenous Rights
  • Laura Henry
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/laura-henry/
    Cloudy Forecast for the Climate: Russia’s Climate Policy in a Time of War
Edward Holland
Core Member | Website | + posts
Assistant Professor of Geography

Affiliation

University of Arkansas

Links

University of Arkansas (Bio)

Expertise

National Minorities, Religion, Political violence, Russia, Caucasus
  • Edward Holland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/edward-holland/
    The Kremlin’s New Man in Dagestan: Corruption Supplants Security as Moscow’s Chief Concern
  • Edward Holland
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/edward-holland/
    Leadership Change and Protests in Russia’s Kalmykia: Moscow’s Corruptive Meddling and Its Discontents
Kristina Hook
Core Member | Website | + posts
Assistant Professor of Conflict Management
Affiliation
Kennesaw State University
Links
Personal Website (Bio)
Expertise
Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Emerging Technologies and Disinformation, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, War-Related Environmental Degradation, Ukraine, Russia
  • Kristina Hook
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/kristina-hook/
    Russia’s war in Ukraine threatens students daily and forces teachers to improvise
Olga Iakimova
Core Member | Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Marketing, Communications, and Branding

Affiliation

School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg

Links

Ural Federal University (Bio)

Expertise

Tolerance and Xenophobia, Attitudes toward Immigrants, Religion in Public Spaces, Emancipative Values, Media Discourses, Comparative Research, Quantitative Methods
    This author does not have any more posts.
Marat Iliyasov
Core Member | + posts
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Miami University, OH

Links

Miami University, OH (Bio)

Expertise

International Relations, Ethnography, Political Demography, Migrants’ Identity Evolution, Self-Legitimation of Authoritarian Governments, Politics of Memory in Autocracies
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Moscow’s Manipulated Memory Politics and Attack on Ukraine
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    Similarities Stain the Kremlin’s Warfare on Chechens and Ukrainians
  • Marat Iliyasov
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/marat-iliyasov/
    The Chechen Footprint During Russian Wartime 
Volodymyr Ishchenko
Core Member | Website | + posts
Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies

Affiliation

Freie Universität Berlin

Links

Freie Universität Berlin (Bio)

Expertise

Political Sociology, Social Movements, Political violence, Nationalism, Marxism, Civil Society, Politics of Memory, Far Right, Far Left
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    How Maidan Revolutions Reproduce and Intensify the Post-Soviet Crisis of Political Representation
  • Volodymyr Ishchenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/volodymyr-ishchenko/
    Focusing on extremism won’t counter far-Right violence
Alexander Iskandaryan
Core Member | Website | + posts
Founding Director, Caucasus Institute

Affiliation

Caucasus Institute, Armenia

Links

Caucasus Institute (Bio)

Expertise

Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Post-Communist Transformations, Post-Soviet Institutions, Elites and Identities, Media Development, Migration, Sovereignty, Governance
  • Alexander Iskandaryan
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/alexander-iskandaryan/
    The Implications of Redrawing the Chechnya-Ingushetia Border
  • Alexander Iskandaryan
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/alexander-iskandaryan/
    Post-Revolution Armenia: New Generation, Old Problems
  • Alexander Iskandaryan
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/alexander-iskandaryan/
    The Epoch of Regional Powers: Why Russia Lost and Turkey Won in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Alexander Iskandaryan
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/alexander-iskandaryan/
    How the War in Ukraine is Reformatting the Post-Soviet Space
Barbara Junisbai
Core Member | Website | + posts
Associate Professor of Organizational Studies

Affiliation

Pitzer College

Links

Pitzer College (Bio)

Expertise

Comparative Political Organizations and Institutions, Authoritarianism, Democratization, Post-Soviet Politics and Society
  • Barbara Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/barbara-junisbai/
    Institutional Trust in Kazakhstan versus Kyrgyzstan: How Divergent Trajectories Matter
  • Barbara Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/barbara-junisbai/
    Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan
  • Barbara Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/barbara-junisbai/
    Outsourcing Violence: Provocateurs and Power Struggles in Kazakhstan, January 2022
Azamat Junisbai
Core Member | Website | + posts
Professor of Sociology

Affiliation

Pitzer College

Links

Pitzer College (Bio)

Expertise

Post-Soviet Central Asia, Public Opinion, Survey Research
  • Azamat Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/azamat-junisbai/
    Institutional Trust in Kazakhstan versus Kyrgyzstan: How Divergent Trajectories Matter
  • Azamat Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/azamat-junisbai/
    Authoritarian Learning: Making Sense Of Kazakhstan’s Political Transition
  • Azamat Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/azamat-junisbai/
    Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan
  • Azamat Junisbai
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/azamat-junisbai/
    The Limits of Authoritarian Learning: Deconstructing Kazakhstan’s 2022 Coup Attempt
Ekaterina Koldunova
Core Member | Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Senior Expert, ASEAN Centre

Affiliation

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Links

MGIMO (Bio)

Expertise

International Relations in Asia, Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Regional Transformations in Asia, Russian Foreign Policy in East Asia
    This author does not have any more posts.
Andrej Krickovic
Andrej Krickovic
Core Member | Website | + posts
Assistant Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Affiliation

Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Links

Higher School of Economics (Bio)

Expertise

Theory of International Relations, China, Russia, Eurasia
  • Andrej Krickovic
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/andrej-krickovic/
    Russia’s Challenge: A Declining Power’s Quest for Status
  • Andrej Krickovic
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/andrej-krickovic/
    From “Greater Europe” to “Greater Eurasia”: Status concerns and the evolution of Russia’s approach to alignment and regional integration
Bidzina Lebanidze
Core Member | + posts
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer; Senior Analyst; Associate Professor

Affiliation

Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Georgian Institute of Politics; Ilia State University

Links

Georgian Institute of Politics (Bio)

Expertise

Theories of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Governance
  • Bidzina Lebanidze
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/bidzina-lebanidze/
    Can the EU’s new global strategy make a difference? Strengthening resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries
  • Bidzina Lebanidze
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/bidzina-lebanidze/
    Georgia’s Crossroad after Crossroad: Paths of Risk and Resilience
Tetyana Malyarenko
Tetyana Malyarenko
Core Member | Website | + posts
Jean Monnet Professor of European Security

Affiliation

National University Odessa Law Academy

Links

National University Odessa Law Academy, Wilson Center (Bio)

Expertise

Conflict Prevention and Settlement, Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Evolving Dynamics and Conflict Potential in Eastern Ukraine
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Connecting Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Eastern Ukraine
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Decentralization Reloaded in Ukraine? Opportunities and Challenges for its Latest Local Government Reform Project
  • Tetyana Malyarenko
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/tetyana-malyarenko/
    Pawns, Partners, and “Smart Leadership”: Ukraine’s Opportunities in the China-Russia-West Triangle
Erica Marat
Erica Marat
Core Member | Website | + posts
Associate Professor, Department of Regional and Analytical Studies

Affiliation

College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University

Links

National Defense University (Bio)

Expertise

Police and Military Reform, Terrorism, Irregular Warfare, Organized Crime, Regional Security Cooperation, Eurasia, South Asia
  • Erica Marat
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/erica-marat/
    Chinese Artificial Intelligence Projects Expand in Eurasian Cities
  • Erica Marat
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/erica-marat/
    Video Surveillance and COVID-19 in Eurasia
  • Erica Marat
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/erica-marat/
    China’s Expanding Military Education Diplomacy in Central Asia
  • Erica Marat
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/erica-marat/
    Time to Question Russia’s Imperial Innocence
Lawrence Markowitz
Core Member | Website | + posts
Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Rowan University

Links

Rowan University (Bio)

Expertise

State Failure, Social Movements, Russia, Central Asia
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    The Nature and Sources of Terrorist Threat in Russia: An “Armed Underground” or ISIL?
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    The Current Hostilities between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Commentary by Dzhuraev, McGlinchey, Markowitz, and Schatz
  • Lawrence Markowitz
    https://www.ponarseurasia.org/author/lawrence-p-markowitz/
    Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan
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