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The Kremlin Emboldened: How Putin Wins Support

(Journal of Democracy) (Co-authored by Samuel Greene) The Kremlin’s ability to maintain power and popularity despite an aging leader, an ailing economy, a rallying opposition, and many other domestic and international…

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More is Less | “In real terms, Russians are borrowing more to spend less.”

(Moscow-on-Thames blog) There’s a phrase in Russian – which I’m sure I’ve written about before – that warns against paying too much attention to “the average temperature in the hospital” (средняя…

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How did 1917 change the west?

(oDR) Failed utopias lead to the death of idealism, and the likes of Putin and Trump are symbols of this process. As we watch Russia struggle with history, the US and…

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The Media & the Messages in Putin’s Russia

(Mobilizing Ideas blog) With all due respect to Marshall McLuhan, he may have got it backwards. In Russia, at least, the message has become the medium. By most measures, there has probably…

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Familiar Refrains

(Moscow-on-Thames) US Vice President Mike Pence walks out of an NFL game because players knelt. President Donald Trump considers firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, we’re told, because the latter called…

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In The Bud – A global system of digital certificates is “wrongheaded”

(Moscow-on-Thames) People trying to sound smart about Russian strategy like to use funny words, like zugzwang (what happens in chess when you’re obliged to make a move that will inevitably hasten your own…

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Glass Half Empty

(Moscow-on-Thames) In case you were wondering what a stolen election looks like, this is it. Russians went to the polls yesterday for what will be the last major round of voting before…

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All In

(Moscow-on-Thames) The cells in Russia’s jails reserved for political prisoners, like nature, apparently abhor a vacuum. No sooner had Russia’s prisons and labor colonies begun to discharge the last of…

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This was meant to happen

(Moscow-on-Thames) This is what Russia’s financial markets did in the aftermath of the announcement that the Government and Central Bank were moving to take over the country’s largest private lender,…

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Revisiting Research on Russian Media Workshop – Abstracts Day 1 (April 28)

PONARS Eurasia held a two-day workshop on April 28-29 on the theme of “Rethinking Russian Media Strategy and Influence.” Below are the panels and abstracts from April 28. Click here for…

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The Media & the Messages in Putin’s Russia

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Revisiting Research on Russian Media Workshop – Abstracts Day 1 (April 28)