Is Putin’s Popularity (Still) Real? A Cautionary Note on Using List Experiments to Measure Popularity in Authoritarian Regimes

Questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity are inextricable from discussions about Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Russian government has expended great effort selling the war to the Russian population,…

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Putin’s Strengths and Vulnerabilities: Three New Books

Join us for an upcoming PONARS Eurasia event celebrating the release of three new books analyzing Putin’s strengths and vulnerabilities. Featuring: Timothy Frye (Weak Strongmen: The Limits of Power in…

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Russians supported Putin’s moves in Crimea in 2014. Here’s what’s different in 2021

(Monkey Cage blog/Washington Post) Many analysts have worried in recent weeks about a large buildup of Russian military forces along the Ukrainian border. Russian troops have gathered in areas near the ongoing conflict in the Donbas, and some…

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Russia’s Weak Strongman: The Perilous Bargains That Keep Putin in Power

(Foreign Affairs) For 21 years, Vladimir Putin has reigned supreme over Russian politics. A skillful manipulator of public opinion, he wields the blunt force of repression against opponents at home…

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Inside Job: The Challenge of Foreign Online Influence in U.S. Elections [Book Reviews]

(War on the Rocks) Kremlin-backed trolls are sowing disinformation and have adapted their game for the 2020 campaign. U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has been vague about the probity of accepting foreign assistance, and the U.S. Office…

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Frye: To be the first one out of the block with a coronavirus vaccine would be a real—pardon the pun—shot in the arm for the Kremlin

(WFMJ) WASHINGTON (AP) — No, Russia isn’t having a Sputnik moment. The announcement Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not…

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Giuliano and Frye Discuss Khabarovsk Protests with VOA (in Russian)

(VOA) (Harriman Institute) Elise Giuliano (Lecturer in Discipline) and Timothy Frye (Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy) discuss the protests in Khabarovsk on Aleksandr Gerasimov’s webcast, Ono Vam Nado? (Do You Need This?) on the VOA Russian Service.…

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