Ponarin: The current generation of young Russians are the happiest since 1991

(FT) Generation Putin: how young Russians view the only leader they’ve ever known “The current generation of young Russians are the happiest since 1991,” says Eduard Ponarin, professor of sociology…

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Disillusionment and Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Pro-American to Anti-American Attitudes, 1993–2009

(International Studies Quarterly) Abstract: In the early 1990s, the Russian public held overwhelmingly favorable attitudes toward the United States; in recent years, attitudes toward the United States have been overwhelmingly unfavorable.…

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The Russian Elite’s View of Global Politics: A Survey of 1993-2012 Opinion Polls

(Russia in Global Affairs) Although the bipolar Cold-War-style mentality is still quite widespread among the rulers of Russian society, it is not a fundamental feature of their global viewpoint. Rather,…

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Ponarin: Russia’s U.S. antipathy stems from elite frustration over the failure to modernize along some foreign models

(The New York Times) Russia’s quasiwar in eastern Ukraine is in no small measure a product of long-felt anti-Western tensions within Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin that are rapidly spiraling out of…

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From Role Model to Enemy: How America Became Russia’s Bogeyman

(Russia in Global Affairs) For Russians, the U.S. is an ideal composite image of an enemy and at the same time an object of desire. When Russia emerged from the…

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New Policy Memo: Russia’s Elite: What They Think of the United States and Why

In the early 1990s, many members of the Russian elite were proponents of the country’s liberal reforms. Moreover, American-style democracy and market economics were popular among Russia’s general population. However,…

Russia’s Elite: What They Think of the United States and Why

Interview with Eduard Ponarin

(Interview) The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research was established in November 2010 grace to the grant awarded according to Resolution No. 220 of the Russian government. During two years the…

Russian State Nationalism vs. Local Nationalisms: The Case of Tatarstan

Tatarstan, an autonomous ethnic republic within the Russian Federation where traditionally Muslim Tatars make up just over half the population, was at the forefront of nationalist mobilization in the late…

Walking on Thin Ice: Putin’s Rapprochement with the United States on the Background of the Latent Anti-Americanism in Russia

The United States—although it attracts many immigrants and students from all over the world and its lifestyle is widely emulated—is also an object of intense and widespread hatred. The apparent…

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Ponarin: The current generation of young Russians are the happiest since 1991

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