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  • Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society (Gel’man, Lankina, Semenov, Smyth, and more)

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  • Putin’s Rules of the Game: The Pitfalls of Russia’s New Constitution

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  • In the Caucasus, There Is a Peace Agreement but Not Peace

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  • Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence

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RSS PONARS Eurasia Podcast
  • Music and Politics in Contemporary Russia [Lipman Series 2021] April 12, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Alexander Gorbachev about the dynamic music scene in contemporary Russia, and how free Russian musicians are to make political statements.
  • How is the Russian Government Coping with Rising Food Prices? [Lipman Series 2021] March 15, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Anton Tabakh about rising food prices in Russia, and what they might mean for Russia's current and future stability.
  • The Communist Party of the Russian Federation: More Than Just Systemic Opposition? [Lipman Series 2021] March 5, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Felix Light and Nikolay Petrov about the contemporary Communist Party of the Russian Federation, including the divisions between its leadership and membership, its attitude toward Alexei Navalny, and why it might be more than just "systemic" opposition after all.
  • Internet Resources: Civic Communication and State Surveillance [Lipman Series 2021] February 16, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Andrei Soldatov and Tanya Lokot about the role of the internet in contemporary Russian politics, including both as a tool of the Russian opposition and as an instrument of the increasingly repressive Russian regime.
  • The Rise of Alexei Navalny's Political Stature and Mass Protest in Russia [Lipman Series 2021] February 1, 2021
    In the first PONARS Eurasia Podcast of 2021, Maria Lipman chats with Greg Yudin about the current protests taking place in Russia, and what Alexei Navalny's growing popular support means for the Putin regime.
  • Russian Social Policy in the COVID-19 Era [Lipman Series 2020] December 21, 2020
    In 2020’s final episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sarah Wilson Sokhey and Ella Paneyakh to discuss Russian social policy in the COVID-19 era, and public perception of Russia’s overall pandemic response.
  • Conscious Parenting Practices in Contemporary Russia [Lipman Series 2020] December 10, 2020
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Julia Yuzbasheva and Maria Danilova to learn more about the proliferation of "conscious parenting" practices in contemporary Russian society.
  • The Transformation of Belarussian Society [Lipman Series 2020] November 11, 2020
    In this episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Masha Lipman chats with Grigory Ioffe about the long-term and short-term factors that led up to the current protests in Belarus, and the ongoing transformation of Belarussian society.
  • Russian Lawmakers Adjust National Legislation to the Revised Constitutional Framework [Lipman Series 2020] October 26, 2020
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov about ongoing changes to Russia’s national legislation based on the recently revised constitutional framework, and what these changes portend for the 2021 Duma election.
  • Russia's Regional Elections [Lipman Series 2020] September 25, 2020
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Graeme Robertson and Konstantin Gaaze about Russia’s September 13 regional elections and whether or not the Kremlin should be worried about upcoming Duma elections.

COVID-19 in Eurasia: Research and Insight

Articles, analyses, and policy memos by PONARS Eurasia members related to the pandemic.

MARCH

3/20/2020

    • Russia’s Chances Against Coronavirus: Sizing up the country’s healthcare capacity and social readiness for a pandemic by Judyth Twigg, Harley Balzer, and Robert Heimer (Meduza podcast)

3/22/2020

    • State Intervention Necessary to Overcome Covid-19 Threats by Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (The Financial Express)

3/24/2020

    • How the Opportunist in the Kremlin Took Advantage of Coronavirus by Regina Smyth (The Globe Post)

3/27/2020

    • Post-Soviet State Responses to COVID-19: Making or Breaking Authoritarianism? by Marlene Laruelle and Madeline McCann (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

APRIL

4/01/2020

    • Masked Diplomacy: Xi and Putin Seek Advantage and Cover from the Pandemic by Elizabeth Wishnick (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

4/06/2020

    • Coronavirus in Ukraine by Judyth Twigg (Think Global Health)

4/08/2020

    • Ukraine lacks leadership as coronavirus crisis escalates by Volodymyr Dubovyk (Atlantic Council)

    • Russian Roulette Podcast: Of COVID19 Measures—or lack thereof—in Russia (CSIS, featuring Judyth Twigg)

4/09/2020

    • Putin’s Response to the Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and the Pandemic by Maria Snegovaya (CEPA)

4/12/2020

    • Majlis Podcast: The Coronavirus As A Means To Strengthen Control (RFE/RL, featuring Erica Marat)

4/16/2020

    • Are the ’90s Coming to Haunt Putin? by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)

4/20/2020

    • The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses by Regina Smyth, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Timothy Model, and Aiden Klein (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

    • Russia Accepts and Emulates China’s Coronavirus Propaganda by Pavel Baev (Eurasia Daily Monitor)

4/24/2020

    • (Re)Categorizing Post-Soviet COVID-19 Containment Strategies by Olga Gulina (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)

4/28/2020

    • Learning from Asia: How to Handle Coronavirus Economic Recessions by Vladimir Popov (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)

4/29/2020

    • Russia’s Health Care System and the Covid-19 Pandemic by Judyth Twigg (Russian Analytical Digest)

MAY

5/4/2020

    • Video Surveillance and COVID-19 in Eurasia by Erica Marat (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

5/5/2020

    • Putin’s Non-Decisions Paralyze Crisis-Stricken Russia by Pavel Baev (Eurasia Daily Monitor)

5/6/2020

    • Russia and Digital Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19 by J. Paul Goode (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

5/6/2020

    • After the Deluge: Comparative Politics of the Coronavirus Pandemic by Şener Aktürk (TRT World)

5/6/2020

    • During the pandemic, Russia and the U.S. have these 3 things in common by Caress Schenk (Monkey Cage)

5/14/2020

    • Covid-19 in Russia (and not only) by Samuel Greene (Wilson Center podcast)

5/18/2020

    • Ukraine Rides High While COVID-19 Lays Neighbors Low: But for How Long? by Ivan Gomza (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) 

JUNE

6/17/2020

    • Healthcare Reform, Demographic Trends, and COVID-19 In Russia: A Conversation With Professor Judyth Twigg (Reforum)

6/19/2020

    • From a State of Exception to Policy Legitimation: The Politics of COVID-19 in Russia, Belarus, and Georgia by Giorgi Beridze, Alla Leukavets, and Andrey Makarychev (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)

6/25/2020

    • Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics” by Mikhail Alexseev (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

JULY

7/7/2020

    • Gone with the virus. How the pandemic makes Russian strategy evanescent by Andrey Makarychev (New Eastern Europe)

 7/20/2020

    • Organizational Resilience: Russian Civil Society in the Times of COVID-19 by Andrei Semenov and Vsevolod Bederson (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

7/23/2020

    • Governing the Pandemic in Finland and Estonia by Andrey Makarychev and Tatiana Romashko (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)

7/30/2020

    • Divide and Co-opt: Government-Opposition Relations in Azerbaijan in the Wake of COVID-19 by Farid Guliyev (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)

AUGUST

8/14/2020

    • Russia Approved A COVID Vaccine. Will It Be Available In America? with Judyth Twigg (FiveThirtyEight)

8/17/2020

    • The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19 with Andrey Makarychev and Elizabeth Wishnick (Weatherhead East Asian Institute)

8/28/2020

    • State Responses to COVID-19 in Eurasia: What Have We Learned? with Mariya Omelicheva, Lawrence Markowitz, Yulia Nikitina, Robert Orttung, and Ekaterina Schulmann (PONARS Eurasia Fridays)

SEPTEMBER

9/18/2020

    • How Has COVID-19 Impacted Regime Legitimacy in Eurasia? with Pauline Jones, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Henry E. Hale, Olga Onuch, Volodymyr Kulyk, and Gwendolyn Sasse (PONARS Eurasia Fridays)

OCTOBER

10/07/2020

    • The Coronavirus Crisis Undercuts Russia’s Geopolitical Ambitions by Pavel Baev (Eurasia Daily Monitor)

10/16/2020

    • Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield by Marlene Laruelle, Mikhail Alexseev, Cynthia Buckley, Ralph S. Clem, J. Paul Goode, Ivan Gomza, Henry E. Hale, Erik Herron, Andrey Makarychev, Madeline McCann, Mariya Omelicheva, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Regina Smyth, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Mikhail Troitskiy, Joshua A. Tucker, Judyth Twigg, and Elizabeth Wishnick (Problems of Post-Communism)

10/23/2020

    • Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe: The COVID-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland by Andrey Makarychev and Tatiana Romashko (Chinese Political Science Review)

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