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Toward the Possibility of a New U.S.-Russian “Reset”: Does Their Hot & Cold Past Foretell Their Future?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Relations between Russia and the United States have been known to change, for the better or for the worse, within a relatively short period of time. Drawing…

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Public Opinion Paradoxes? Russians Are Increasingly Dubious About the Costs of Putin’s Foreign Policies

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Recent survey and focus group data indicate that Russians increasingly are questioning whether some of President Vladimir Putin’s policies are worth the price in terms of threats…

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Does the March 2019 Sakha Pogrom Portend a Future of Ethnic Violence for Russia?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The violent anti-immigrant events in March 2019 in the Russian autonomous republic of Sakha (Yakutia) may foreshadow rising interethnic hostility and an inward turn connected to a…

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Expectations for Kyiv-Moscow Relations After Ukraine’s Presidential Election

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) At first glance, Ukraine’s recent presidential election further confirmed the dramatic decrease of Russian influence in Ukraine. Not a single candidate based his or her campaign on…

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Russia’s Struggle Over the Meaning of the 1990s and the Keys to Kremlin Power

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The days of political promise the Russian liberal opposition enjoyed during 2011-12 when the “angry urbanites” protested against the regime, are long over. The Russian “progressive era”…

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Russia’s “Opposition at a Distance”: The Liberal, Anti-Putin, and Pro-Western Consortia Outside Russian Borders

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Various Russian opposition groups operate outside of Russia articulating and promoting a normative type of political discourse grounded in values of freedom, democracy, and rule of…

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Waving the EU Flag in Eurasia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Why do people fly the EU flag in post-Soviet countries that are not EU member states and will not become EU member states any time soon?…

Oligarchs and Western Sanctions: The Dilemmas Facing Russia’s Ultra Wealthy

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The effects of Western sanctions on Russia have been much debated since they were first imposed in 2014. But their impact on Russia’s economic elites remains little…

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U.S. Arctic Policymaking Under Trump and Obama: Implications for Russia and China

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Arctic policy priorities under the Obama and Trump administrations, though similar in some ways, are marked by distinct differences driven by contrasting governance styles. These differences…

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The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Post-Soviet States: Securing Political Goals Through Citizenship Rules

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The post-World War II era, and especially the post-Cold War era, has seen the global spread of dual citizenship. Not only have the number of de-facto dual…

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Centenary Anniversaries of Independence: Baltic, East European, and Caucasian Contexts

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In 2018, many former Soviet republics celebrated their anniversaries of independence gained by the collapse of the Russian empire one hundred years ago. These remembrance events…

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Buyer Beware: Evaluating Russian Exports Under Sanctions and Stagnation

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The use of sanctions to push Russia to change its foreign policy behavior has come under heated debate. Proponents argue that the sanctions policy pursued by the…

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Toward the Possibility of a New U.S.-Russian “Reset”: Does Their Hot & Cold Past Foretell Their Future?

Public Opinion Paradoxes? Russians Are Increasingly Dubious About the Costs of Putin’s Foreign Policies

Does the March 2019 Sakha Pogrom Portend a Future of Ethnic Violence for Russia?

Expectations for Kyiv-Moscow Relations After Ukraine’s Presidential Election

Russia’s Struggle Over the Meaning of the 1990s and the Keys to Kremlin Power

Russia’s “Opposition at a Distance”: The Liberal, Anti-Putin, and Pro-Western Consortia Outside Russian Borders

Waving the EU Flag in Eurasia

Oligarchs and Western Sanctions: The Dilemmas Facing Russia’s Ultra Wealthy

U.S. Arctic Policymaking Under Trump and Obama: Implications for Russia and China

The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Post-Soviet States: Securing Political Goals Through Citizenship Rules

Centenary Anniversaries of Independence: Baltic, East European, and Caucasian Contexts

Buyer Beware: Evaluating Russian Exports Under Sanctions and Stagnation