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Ideological or Pragmatic? A Data-Driven Analysis of the Russian Presidential Grant Fund

(Russian Politics) Abstract: Research on Russian civil society focuses largely on the repressive legislative side of state policies, to the virtual exclusion of the rise of domestic funding, be it individual,…

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Post-Soviet State Responses to COVID-19: Making or Breaking Authoritarianism?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Pandemics are not only a medical and social issue. They also are deeply political—even geopolitical—and feed strong-state efforts to regulate human bodies in a way some refer…

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Russia’s Arctic Policy: A Power Strategy and Its Limits

(IFRI) Despite the deterioration of its relations with the West and economic stagnation limiting its room for maneuver, Russia continues to have an ambitious policy for the Arctic region. Moscow sees the…

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Interview with Marlene Laruelle on The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan

(New Books Network) In a new podcast, Nicholas Seay (PhD candidate at The Ohio State University) interviews Marlene Laruelle about her edited volume The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan (Lexington…

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Character Assassination as Strategic Communication in EU-Russia Relations

(Springer) (Co-authored by Sergei Samoilenko) This chapter examines character assassination as a set of strategies used by conflicting parties in international affairs. Specifically, it views character assassination as strategic communication embedded in…

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Postcolonial polar cities? New indigenous and cosmopolitan urbanness in the Arctic

(Acta Borealia) The arrival into geography, and especially urban geography, of a frame of questioning coming from postcolonial studies has contributed to a fascinating debate about what a “postcolonial” city is…

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A Booming City in the Far North: Demographic and Migration Dynamics of Yakutsk, Russia

(Berghahn Books) Many cities of Russia’s Far North face a massive population decline, with the exception of those based on oil and gas extraction in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Yet, there…

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Podcast: Understanding Russian Interference Through a Russian Lens – Marlene Laruelle

(Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast) Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. The United States, and Western democracies more generally, currently view Russia through the lens of their own internal crises, argues MARLENE LARUELLE, expert on Russian politics…

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Polar Islam: Muslim Communities in Russia’s Arctic Cities

(Co-authored with Sophie Hohmann) This article advances the notion of “Polar Islam” to describe the birth and structuring of Muslim communities in Russia’s Arctic cities. It does not assert that Arctic conditions…

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The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan

(Rowan & Littlefield) This social and cultural analysis provides a new understanding of Kazakhstan’s younger generations that emerged during the rule of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been presiding over Kazakhstan…

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The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan