Ready to Protest? Calculating Protest Potential in Russian Regional Capitals

In recent years, massive urban protests have taken place in the post-Soviet space. Some demonstrations have contributed to political change, like in Ukraine, while elsewhere, they made no difference or…

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Russia and Its Two “Shared Neighborhoods”

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The term “shared neighborhood” is applied when a nation or a group of nations is geographically located between disproportionally larger states, relations with which are critically…

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Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Scholars of international relations and Russian politics actively debate whether some “grand strategy” underpins Russian foreign policy choices in the Putin era. For instance, prominent American military historian…

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October 23: Center-Periphery Politics in Russia: Instability and Adaptation with Busygina, Crowley, Koldunova, and Semenov

Center-Periphery Politics in Russia: Instability and Adaptation Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week. Featuring:…

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Russian Federalism: Informal Elite Games Against Formal Democratic Institutions

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In Russia, formal constitutional principles of federalism cannot be abolished without putting the country’s political stability at significant risk. Even the Soviet leadership could not afford to…

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Russia in the Eurasian Economic Union: Lack of Trust in Russia Limits the Possible

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which currently includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, is the first relatively successful attempt to establish strong multilateral institutions for…

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