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The 2014 Olympics and Indigenous People in Sochi

The 2014 Olympics in Sochi in the Krasnodar province of the Russian Federation has been slowly bringing attention to the region’s various minorities. Though there has been tremendous historical foot-dragging…

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Kyrgyz Parliament Votes to Close U.S. Transit Center at Manas

On June 20, 2013, the Kyrgyz parliament voted 91-5 to cancel the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreements on the Transit Center at Manas airport to be effective one year from now in July…

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BRICS: Emerging, Resisting, Cloning

The concept “emerging power” is fashionable among specialists in international relations. However, questions abound. Is an emerging power a state that is pragmatically using a moment of Western weakening to…

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IR in Europe: A Normative Turn Still Underway

The first European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) gave a comprehensive view of the state of the discipline, with 14 sessions running in parallel and 200 researchers participating. Global governance…

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Арест Саида Амирова: изменит ли падение «дагестанского Лужкова» ситуацию в Дагестане?

Мэр Махачкалы Саид Амиров (59 лет) арестован 1 июня 2013 года по обвинению в убийстве начальника одного из следственных отделов Арсена Гаджибекова. Вместе с ним задержаны еще десять подозреваемых, в…

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Impressions from Moscow

At the end of May, I spent a week in Moscow doing some research on various topics. Although it wasn't the central focus of my interviews, I took the opportunity…

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Will the Detention of Amirov, “Dagestan’s Luzhkov,” Change Anything?

Said Amirov, 59, the mayor of Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala was arrested on June 1, 2013, and accused of the murder of Arsen Gajibekov, the head of a district investigative committee.…

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Putin’s Regime and Semiotic Irony

Semioticians probably have the best sense of humor among all social scientists. Those who think that the hegemonic discourse in today's Russia is boring are wrong. Some of its segments…

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Politics of Gold or a Failed Revolution in Kyrgyzstan?

A wave of unrest hit Kyrgyzstan last week, creating two “hot” zones, one in northern Issykkul and another in southern Jalalabad. The events turned dramatic, illustrated by the president decreeing…

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Circassian Memorial Day, Sochi, and Syria

Circassians all over the world commemorate the 149th anniversary of the end of the Russian-Caucasus war every year on May 21. In Russia, where about a million Circassians live, meetings…

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The Dual Citizenship Topic in Germany

(By Olga Gulina) Influential regions of Germany are proposing changes to some of the most sensitive issues of the country’s immigration policies. The lands of Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony,…

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Bishkek Hosts Informal CSTO Summit

On May 28, 2013, Kyrgyzstan hosted an informal summit of the heads of state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The summit discussed various issues related to regional security,…

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Commentary | Комментарии

The 2014 Olympics and Indigenous People in Sochi

Kyrgyz Parliament Votes to Close U.S. Transit Center at Manas

BRICS: Emerging, Resisting, Cloning

IR in Europe: A Normative Turn Still Underway

Арест Саида Амирова: изменит ли падение «дагестанского Лужкова» ситуацию в Дагестане?

Impressions from Moscow

Will the Detention of Amirov, “Dagestan’s Luzhkov,” Change Anything?

Putin’s Regime and Semiotic Irony

Politics of Gold or a Failed Revolution in Kyrgyzstan?

Circassian Memorial Day, Sochi, and Syria

The Dual Citizenship Topic in Germany

Bishkek Hosts Informal CSTO Summit