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    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Denis Volkov, Naira Davlashyan, and Peter Slevin about why COVID-19 vaccination rates are still so low across the globe, comparing vaccine hesitant constituencies across Russia, France, and the United States.  
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      In a new PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Maxim Trudolyubov about the current tightening of the Russian political sphere, asking whether or not it’s helpful to draw comparisons to the late Soviet period.
  • The Evolution of Russia's Political Regime [Lipman Series 2021] June 21, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Grigory Golosov and Henry Hale about the evolution of Russia's political regime, and what to expect in the lead-up to September's Duma elections.
  • Volodymyr Zelensky: Year Two [Lipman Series 2021] May 24, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sergiy Kudelia and Georgiy Kasianov about Ukrainian President Zelensky's second year in office, and how he has handled the political turbulence of the past year.

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Marlene Laruelle

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Research Professor; Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES); Director, Central Asia Program; Director, Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-director, PONARS Eurasia
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Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University
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Ideology, Political Philosophy, Nationalism, Far Right, Extremism, Populism, Illiberalism, Great Power Competition, Russia, Europe, Arctic, Central Asia
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Manufacturing Support for War: Russia’s Preppers, Fellow Travelers, and Activist Networks

  • April 4, 2022
  • Marlene Laruelle and Ivan Grek
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The impact on Russia of its war against Ukraine is heavier than President Vladimir Putin anticipated, both in terms of military losses and economic isolation. The…
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Disinformation and Religion on the Russian Scene: Reactionary Politics and Orthodox Fundamentalism

  • March 4, 2022
  • Marlene Laruelle and Ivan Grek
(Berkley Center) The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the production of disinformation on Russia’s media scene. Religion has played a role in this development. The Moscow Patriarchate, which has backed state…
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Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan

  • January 19, 2022
  • Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Marlene Laruelle, Lawrence P. Markowitz, Mariya Omelicheva and Dylan Royce
Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis By Mariya Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz | March 1, 2021 Despite a history of using discourses of danger…
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Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence

  • July 19, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle and Kevin Limonier
(Post-Soviet Affairs) This article argues that to capture Russia’s influence abroad, one needs to comprehend the country’s “gray diplomacy” as a neoliberal realm open to individual initiatives. We define “entrepreneurs…
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Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

  • July 7, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle
(UCL Press) Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in…
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Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence

  • July 2, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle and Kevin Limonier
(Orbis) Today, Russian influence on the African continent is still anecdotic compared to the People’s Republic of China, the United States, and former colonial powers, such as France. Yet, Moscow…
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Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence

  • April 8, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle
(Ifri) This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms: Russia’s history and culture; its Soviet legacy;…
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How the Battle Over Collective Memory Will Define Russia’s Place in Europe

  • March 16, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle
(Moscow Times) As the proverb goes, the past tells us above all about the present. The current memory wars between Russia, on the one hand, and Central European countries, led…
A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics
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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

  • January 22, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle
(Nationalities Papers) Abstract: A new wave of scholarship has made major advances in how we understand the politics of civilizational identity by drawing powerfully from conceptual tools developed over the years to…
Accusing Russia of Fascism: Polemics around Russia’s Belonging to Europe
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Accusing Russia of Fascism: Polemics around Russia’s Belonging to Europe

  • January 4, 2021
  • Marlene Laruelle
(Russia in Global Affairs) Abstract: With memory wars between Central and Eastern European states and Russia, the Second World War has become a useable past instrumentalized as a currency for legitimacy on…
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