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Greene: Looking at what Putin does, one can see that his aim is simply to stay in power

(CEPA) Is Vladimir Putin bad, sad or mad? Is he a sinister and effective tyrant, cleverly taking advantage of the West’s weakness? Is he balancing precariously at the head of a…

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Greene: The government will help the titans of the economy, in return they remain quiet, loyal

(AP) SOCHI, Russia — The ski jump sits shrouded in mist, its coat of snow undisturbed by any athletes hurtling down to take off into the air. A year ago,…

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Imagining the Unimaginable

It’s worth taking a moment to think about what this picture might mean. ‘Might’, because the future is uncertain, all of these trends could be reversed, and life could get…

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Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia (New Book)

Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013,…

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What’s Wrong with the Boisto Plan?

Just before Poroshenko and Putin met in Minsk today, the so-called Boisto Group (named for the Finnish island where the group’s six American and seven Russian foreign policy experts met)…

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Greene, Marten: Russians are afraid of changing from Putin, because he has provided what they want

(Huffington Post) Responding to the renewed crisis in Ukraine, on Tuesday the European Union (EU) moved towards imposing economic sanctions on associates of Vladimir Putin, with foreign ministers agreeing to…

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New Policy Memo: Identity, Nationalism, and the Limits of Liberalism in Russian Popular Politics

(Co-author: Graeme Robertson) Recent Russian election campaigns and post-election contestation have been characterized by a pervasive rhetoric of ethnonationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and other forms of chauvinism. This appears to mirror…

Identity, Nationalism, and the Limits of Liberalism in Russian Popular Politics

Recent Russian election campaigns and post-election contestation have been characterized by a pervasive rhetoric of ethnonationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and other forms of chauvinism. This appears to mirror the proliferation of…

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After Crimea: Options for the West

Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, whatever its consequences for Ukraine itself, is first and foremost a gauntlet thrown down to the West. How the West responds will shape the future…

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Why Ukraine is still not (yet) Russia

(openDemocracy) Most observers thought that any threat to the Sochi Olympics would come from disarray to the east and the south, in the fractious Caucasus. But, as it happened, strife…

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Greene: Looking at what Putin does, one can see that his aim is simply to stay in power

Greene: The government will help the titans of the economy, in return they remain quiet, loyal

Imagining the Unimaginable

Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia (New Book)

What’s Wrong with the Boisto Plan?

Greene, Marten: Russians are afraid of changing from Putin, because he has provided what they want

New Policy Memo: Identity, Nationalism, and the Limits of Liberalism in Russian Popular Politics

Identity, Nationalism, and the Limits of Liberalism in Russian Popular Politics

After Crimea: Options for the West

Why Ukraine is still not (yet) Russia