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The Houses That Khrushchev and Brezhnev Built: Citadels of Support or Incubators of Political Protest?

One of the biggest movie hits of the Soviet era, The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath (1975), still shown around New Year’s Day on Russia’s major television channels…

Interacting through Migration: How Can Russia Benefit and Learn From Its Asian Neighbors?

Has Russia been missing out on the economic benefits of labor migration—particularly to and from Asia—and if so, in what manner and to what extent? What lessons or best practices…

Vostok – 2003 War Games: Preparing to Defend a Nigeria on the Pacific

From August 18 to 27, 2003, Russia staged the largest military exercises since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Code-named Vostok-2003, the war games were staged in the training zone of the…

Security Sell-Out in the North Caucasus, 2004: How Government Centralization Backfires

With the horrors of the September 2004 school hostage massacre in Beslan (North Ossetia) very much in the Russians’ hearts and minds, the Kremlin announced sweeping reforms to strengthen central…

The U.S. War on Terrorism: How Do Russian Muslims Respond?

In response to the September 11 terror attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., Russia’s Muslim leaders went to great lengths to make a legitimate and valid distinction between…

Assuaging Ethnic Factionalism Dagestan’s Lessons for Post-Taliban Settlement in Afghanistan

Studies of post-conflict settlement have shown that political decentralization rarely eliminates ethnopolitical violence. Yet, some form of decentralization often has to be used as a confidence building mechanism in the…

Chechnya: 9/11, the Moscow Hostage Crisis, and Opportunity for Political Settlement

Having enlisted Putin’s support in the global war on terrorism, the White House has not publicly protested the continuing zachistki (cleansing raids) and other systematic abuses of Chechen civilians by the…

Russia’s Periphery in the Global Arena: Do Regions Matter in the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy?

The conventional wisdom is that since the collapse of Communism the regions and republics of the Russian Federation have taken advantage of political and economic decentralization to articulate and conduct…

The Chinese are Coming: Public Opinion and Threat Perception in the Russian Far East

Unpublished data from the passport and visa registration service of Primorsky krai, interdepartmental memos from the Pacific Regional Directorate of the Russian Federal Border Service, and this author's interviews with…

What Drives Russia Coverage in the Mainstream American Press?

Foreign affairs coverage in the mainstream media in the United States–centering on the wire services, the newspapers of record (The New York Times, The Washington Post), and the major television…

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