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PONARS Eurasia Scholars on Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia

(Washington Post) On Jan. 17, Alexei Navalny, perhaps the best-known domestic critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, returned to Russia in dramatic fashion after recovering in Germany from what he claims was deliberate poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, allegedly by agents of the…

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Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube During the 2016 US Presidential Election

(International Journal of Press/Politics) This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA sought either to…

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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communication

(PONARS Policy Memo) The question of how regimes respond to online opposition has become a central topic of politics in the digital age. In previous work, we have identified three…

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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communications

Joshua Tucker (NYU) discusses how authoritarian, and competitive authoritarian, regimes respond to online opposition, as well as his research on the activity of Russian bots. Tucker PONARS Podcast .mp3 Episode…

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Ukrainians are getting less divided by language, not more. Here’s the research.

(WP) The journal Post-Soviet Affairs recently published a special issue on politics and identity in Ukraine. The question of Russian vs. Ukrainian identity has been central to the study of Ukrainian politics for decades…

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В Україну їде американський професор Джошуа Такер, промінентний експерт із виборів і соцмереж

Наступного тижня Україну відвідає професор Університету Нью-Йорка, промінентний експерт із виборів і соціальних мереж Джошуа Такер (Joshua Tucker) – редактор одного з найвпливовіших блогів на Washington Post – Monkey Cage Blog, співзасновник лабораторії NYU…

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Everything you need to know about the Russian art of ‘kompromat’

(WP) On Tuesday, news broke—in rather sensational fashion—that U.S. intelligence agencies had briefed both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on the possibility that Russia possesses compromising information on Trump. While questions continue to swirlabout the…

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