Russians Know the Reality of War, and Many of Them Still Support Putin

(NYTimes) Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, an old English proverb says. Its Russian counterpart advises you to count your chickens in the fall. In Russia, fall starts looming…

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Roundtable on Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s The Red Mirror

(Post-Soviet Affairs) In this roundtable, we bring together a distinguished groups of academics to discuss Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s excellent new book, The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity (Sharafutdinova…

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Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield

(Problems of Post-Communism) The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly…

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Digital Technologies and Authoritarian Regimes: A Case of Pothole Management in Moscow

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Tahrir, Maidan, and Bolotnaya plazas—the public spaces associated with pro-democratic protests of the last decade—are located in the capital cities. Controlling public opinion in the capital…

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The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The COVID-19 pandemic hit Russia at a precarious moment marked by a global oil war and constitutional reforms intended to secure regime stability beyond 2024. These three…

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Russia’s Struggle Over the Meaning of the 1990s and the Keys to Kremlin Power

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The days of political promise the Russian liberal opposition enjoyed during 2011-12 when the “angry urbanites” protested against the regime, are long over. The Russian “progressive era”…

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A Rock and a Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War