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Pasta and Sugar, Not Navalny, Are Putin’s Main Worries

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  • Evgeny Finkel, Janetta Azarieva and Yitzhak Brudny
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In late 2020, food prices and the Russian citizens’ access to staple foods have emerged as one of Putin’s main concerns. Over the last year, the price of pasta…
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Reform and Rebellion in Weak States

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Evgeny Finkel wins 2018 Rothschild Prize; Honorable Mention given to Mikhail Alexseev and Sufian Zhemukhov

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The winner of the 2018 Rothschild Prize is Evgeny Finkel for his book: Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (Princeton University Press 2017).          …
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(In)discriminate language on Gaza

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