Mikhail Alexseev

Five Years into the War, Ukraine Is Showing Grittiness, Rebounding Confidence in War Fortunes

Image credit/license From early 2025, Ukraine’s war fortunes were looking increasingly dim. The United States stopped direct financial and military assistance, while Hungary kept blocking or delaying European support for…

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Where Concessions Meet Resolve: How Ukrainian Society Sees U.S. Efforts to End Russia’s War

Image credit/license With President Donald Trump and his administration’s push to end the Russia-Ukraine war through negotiations, one fundamental question is whether and what kind of territorial concessions Ukrainian society…

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Anchored in Freedom: Ukrainians’ Will to Fight Back in Harder Times

Image credit/license After regaining nearly half of the territories Russia occupied in its full-scale invasion of February 24, 2022, Ukraine fell on harder times. By May 2023, having incurred horrendous…

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For Victory in Freedom: Why Ukrainian Resilience to Russian Aggression Endures

Image license/credit Not only do the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians remain resolute in their commitment to driving Russia out of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory, but this commitment is strongly fused…

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Striking Back at the Empire: Ukrainians Converge on Values and National Belonging

Defying months of unprovoked, brutal, deeply traumatizing Russian military invasion, the Ukrainian society has not only mobilized for defense but has struck back with surging support for its popularly elected…

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Ukrainians believe they’ll win the war, a survey finds

(Monkey Cage/Washington Post) The Pentagon announced $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine last week, the largest single drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine. And the U.S. treasury has authorized $4.5…

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U.S. Foreign Policy: What Wins Hearts and Minds in Ukraine?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) How does U.S. policy toward Ukraine resonate with the Ukrainian public? What kind of policies in Washington make the most positive or negative impact, and why?…

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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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Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe, policy patterns in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR/LNR) indicate that these “separatist entities,” which Moscow engineered in 2014…

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Through Europe’s Gate, Out of Russia’s Net: How Ukrainians’ Visa-Free EU Travel Offsets Moscow’s Disinformation

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Public opinion surveys indicate that among Ukrainian citizens who used bezviz, the EU-Ukraine visa-free travel arrangement, support for Ukraine’s integration with the EU and NATO strengthened,…

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Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Numerous academic studies have shown that economic hardship, ethnoregional divides, corrupt governance, and war are bad for democracy, particularly in states where democracy has weak historical roots.…

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How Do Ukrainians Want to End the Donbas War?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Whereas it is hard to imagine the Donbas retuning fully to Ukraine’s control without Russia ending its multi-year military and economic backing of the separatist entities there, the…

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