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    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with scholars Kelly Smith and Benjamin Nathans about the history, achievements, and impending shutdown of the Memorial Society, Russia's oldest and most venerable civic organization, and what its imminent liquidation portends for the Russian civil society.
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    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Alexander Verkhovsky about the Kremlin's ever expanding toolkit against political and civic activists, journalists, and other dissidents.
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    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Tanya Lokot and Nikolay Petrov about the results of Russia’s legislative elections and about what comes next.
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    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov about Russia’s September 17-19 legislative elections, repressive measures against electoral challengers, and whether to expect anything other than preordained results.
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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.  
  • Is Russia Becoming More Soviet? [Lipman Series 2021] July 26, 2021
      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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Samuel Charap

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Senior Political Scientist, Washington Office
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Political Economy and Foreign Policies of Russia and Former Soviet States, European and Eurasian Regional Security, Deterrence, Strategic Stability, Arms Control
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Ukraine’s Best Chance for Peace

  • June 2, 2022
  • Samuel Charap
(Foreign Affairs) How Neutrality Can Bring Security—and Satisfy Both Russia and the West. At this stage of the war in Ukraine, as Russia steps up its offensive in the Donbas…
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Russia’s Military Interventions: Patterns, Drivers, and Signposts

  • October 4, 2021
  • Samuel Charap, Edward Geist, Bryan Frederick, John J. Drennan, Nathan Chandler and Jennifer Kavanagh
(RAND Corporation) Moscow’s use of its military abroad in recent years has radically reshaped perceptions of Russia as an international actor. With the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the invasion of…
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Expanding the Scope for Statecraft in U.S. Russia Policy

  • May 21, 2021
  • Samuel Charap
(War on the Rocks) The Biden administration has its sights set on a June summit with Russia. Given the new lows plowed in the bilateral relationship — so low that…
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Strategic Sderzhivanie: Understanding Contemporary Russian Approaches to “Deterrence”

  • September 15, 2020
  • Samuel Charap
(Marshall Center) Executive Summary: There is a mismatch between the Western concept of deterrence and the Russian concept of sderzhivanie, and particularly strategic sderzhivanie. Strategic sderzhivanie encompasses the Western concepts…
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A New Approach to Conventional Arms Control in Europe

  • May 5, 2020
  • Samuel Charap
(RAND Research Report) Over 30 years after the end of the Cold War, military tensions have returned to Europe. Both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia are boosting their…
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Understanding Russia’s Intervention in Syria

  • October 31, 2019
  • Samuel Charap
(Rand) Russia’s 2015 military intervention in Syria’s civil war took many by surprise and raised questions about the potential for similar actions in other conflicts outside of post-Soviet Eurasia. The authors…
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Украинский кризис: победителей нет

  • April 10, 2018
  • Samuel Charap
Этот специальный номер журнала «Россия в Глобальной Политике» – необычный. Мы впервые перевели целую книгу, то есть выпуск получился не просто тематический, как мы иногда делали раньше, а посвященный одному-единственному…
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The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia

  • March 6, 2018
  • Samuel Charap
Samuel Charap (Rand Corporation) discusses his new co-authored book, Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia. Charap Podcast.mp3 Episode 5
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Russia and China: A New Model of Great-Power Relations

  • February 7, 2017
  • Samuel Charap
(IISS) The Ukraine crisis and the downturn in Russia–West relations that came in its wake have compelled Russia to turn decisively towards China. Deprived of other options, Moscow has found…
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The US Election and the Ukraine Connection

  • January 25, 2017
  • Samuel Charap
(PS) (Co-authored by Timothy J. Colton) Donald Trump has officially been inaugurated as US president, but questions about Russia’s interference in the election will not go away. Yet one key…
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