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Manufacturing Support for War: Russia’s Preppers, Fellow Travelers, and Activist Networks

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The impact on Russia of its war against Ukraine is heavier than President Vladimir Putin anticipated, both in terms of military losses and economic isolation. The…

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Disinformation and Religion on the Russian Scene: Reactionary Politics and Orthodox Fundamentalism

(Berkley Center) The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the production of disinformation on Russia’s media scene. Religion has played a role in this development. The Moscow Patriarchate, which has backed state…

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Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence

(Post-Soviet Affairs) This article argues that to capture Russia’s influence abroad, one needs to comprehend the country’s “gray diplomacy” as a neoliberal realm open to individual initiatives. We define “entrepreneurs…

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Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

(UCL Press) Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in…

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Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence

(Orbis) Today, Russian influence on the African continent is still anecdotic compared to the People’s Republic of China, the United States, and former colonial powers, such as France. Yet, Moscow…

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Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence

(Ifri) This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms: Russia’s history and culture; its Soviet legacy;…

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PONARS Eurasia Online Academy: Grassroots Nationalist Movements in Russia

Authored by Marlene Laruelle, “Grassroots Nationalism in Contemporary Russia,” is an educational video in a new series designed to provide succinct overviews of policy-relevant research and contemporary scholarship on Russia…

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How the Battle Over Collective Memory Will Define Russia’s Place in Europe

(Moscow Times) As the proverb goes, the past tells us above all about the present. The current memory wars between Russia, on the one hand, and Central European countries, led…

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New Book: Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West

In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of “fascism” has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin’s regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism,…

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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

(Nationalities Papers) Abstract: A new wave of scholarship has made major advances in how we understand the politics of civilizational identity by drawing powerfully from conceptual tools developed over the years to…

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