Transnistria – Europe’s Hotbed of Smuggling
(DEUTSCHE WELLE) The beginning of this year saw a change of administration in Transnistria. It’s trying to gradually open up to the international community. After 20 years of isolation, the…
Urmas Paet, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Why the European Union Still Matters
(Event) Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet joined IERES at the Elliott School of International Affairs on Tuesday, March 27, for an interesting discussion about the status and future of the…
Apply: Fellowship on Russia’s Global Engagement
IERES announces a competition for one Post-Doctoral Scientist position for the academic year 2012-13. The Post-Doctoral Scientist will spend approximately 50 percent of time on his/her own research and…
IERES Event: Elections and Public Opinion Polling in Russia
(Event) Russians went to the polls on March 4 to elect a new president. The day after the elections, IERES hosts Vadim Volos, a polling expert who will explain how…
Turkmenistan’s Strange Presidential “Election”
(NEWEURASIA) Official Turkmen media coverage of the fraudulent presidential election. Original translations by myself and a fellow citizen-journalist for NewEurasia.
“Russian Federation 2012”
"Russian Federation 2012: A Short-Term Prognoses" Editors: Viatcheslav Morozov, Karmo Tuur February 2012 © Academic Centre for Baltic and Russian Studies, University of Tartu (www.tyk.ee) Among the contributors are…
Brookings Event: New START at One Year: Implementation and Looking to the Future
On Friday, February 10, the Arms Control Initiative at Brookings will host a discussion of New START, its implementation and next steps. See Details Participants 1:00 PM — Panel…
Poland: EU Presidency as an Incentive to Reconsider Polish Identity?
(Article) In August 2011, Alexander Rahr, one of Germany’s key experts in post-Soviet affairs, claimed that Poland as the then EU presiding country had to get more involved in…
State Building in Putin’s Russia (Book Review)
State Building in Putin's Russia Policing and Coercion after Communism Cambridge University Press (2011) by Brian D. Taylor Syracuse Univesity "In this important study of the power ministries in Russia…
Putin’s Kiss
(MONDAY PRODUCTION) Putin’s Kiss is a 2012 documentary, directed by Lise Birk Pedersen, about Russian youth activist Masha Drokova and her experiences with the youth organisation Nashi.
Lenin’s Children
(BBC) Lenin’s Children a new 45-minute BBC Persian/BBCUZBEK.COM/ documentary looking at life in Tajikistan twenty years after independence from the USSR. Once one of the smallest and poorest Soviet republics,…
Dealing With a Post-BRIC Russia
(Report) See the European Council on Foreign Relations report: Dealing With a Post-BRIC Russia, by PONARS Eurasia member Nicu Popescu, Ben Judah, and Jana Kobzova. – Javier Solana, former EU…