Pushkin House Book Prize 2020: The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev

(Pushkin House) Sergei Medvedev, a historian, writer and journalist, has won this year’s Pushkin House Russian book prize for his work The Return of the Russian Leviathan on contemporary Russia. A…

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Taming the Leviathan: How Russians Learn to Counter the State

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Among the distinctive features of Vladimir Putin’s 20 years in power, the resurgence of the state stands apart. Considered necessary after the turbulent transition from communism in…

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The Return of the Russian Leviathan [NEW BOOK] | Review: “A Lust for Suffering”

(Wall Street Journal | Review) The original Russian title of this dazzling collection of essays by Sergei Medvedev, a social-science professor in Moscow and one of Russia’s leading political commentators, was…

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Russia’s cabinet resigns and it’s all part of Putin’s plan

(The Conversation) Editor’s note: Russia’s prime minister, Dmitry A. Medvedev, and cabinet resigned on Jan. 15. Russian politics are often not what they seem, especially to those in the West.…

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The State and the Human Body in Putin’s Russia: The Biopolitics of Authoritarian Revanche

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Over the past decade, one of the key aspects of Russian politics has been the increased interference of the state in the private lives of the population.…

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Biopolitical Art and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Putin’s Russia

(Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) This article addresses the public appeal of political actionism in today’s Russia through analysis of the political art of Pyotr Pavlensky. The research uses…

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New Book: The Crimean Period of Russian History (in Russian)

Sergei Medvedev's collection of essays, The Crimean Period of Russian History (Moscow, Individuum Publishers, 2017), evokes the key political, social, and historical debates in Russia over the past three years. Chekists and journalists, wars…

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Medvedev: Russia’s “national interest” concept is outdated and backward; Markedonov: it will remain dominant

(Russia Direct) Numerous mantras and truisms about “predictable unpredictability” have become commonplace among pundits and politicians today. Paradoxically, quite predictable moves from global and regional stakeholders make the world less…

The Kremlin’s Arctic Plans: More Gutted than Grand

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Over the past decade, Russia has launched a diplomatic and symbolic offensive in the Arctic, supported by increased military activity, grandiose economic plans, and showy assertions…

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Sergei Medvedev: If there’s a Brexit, a crisis in the EU, this will be a local propaganda victory

(BBC) You don't have to be British to have an opinion on Brexit. In recent weeks a string of world leaders have expressed their views on the UK's EU referendum. And…

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