To Justify, Demonize, Normalize: Putin’s Language of War and Central Asian Neutrality

President Vladimir Putin has persisted in telling his tale of a righteous Russian war on Ukrainians, both to home audiences and to the outside world. Among the latter, of notable…

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Do Russians Support the War? How the Answer Reflects Biases, Uncertainty, and Old Divisions

The share of pro-war and anti-war Russians has quickly become one of the main bones of contention in the Russian war against Ukraine. Around the world, politicians, journalists, experts, professors,…

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The Political Participation that Enables Putin

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With media coverage of Russia focusing on government crackdowns against prominent opposition political figures like Alexei Navalny, our discussions of Russians’ political participation during the autocratic…

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Putin’s Strengths and Vulnerabilities: Three New Books

Join us for an upcoming PONARS Eurasia event celebrating the release of three new books analyzing Putin’s strengths and vulnerabilities. Featuring: Timothy Frye (Weak Strongmen: The Limits of Power in…

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Putin’s Rules of the Game: The Pitfalls of Russia’s New Constitution

(Foreign Affairs) Obviously, 2020 was a terrible year. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, there was one bright spot. Putin solved his “2024 problem”—the legal constraint to standing for reelection…

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Russia’s referendum could keep Vladimir Putin in power until 2036. What do high-ranking Russians think?

(Monkey Cage) Russians vote today on constitutional amendments that would allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in office until the year 2036, thanks to changes to Russia’s presidential term limits. Putin recently justified these reforms as necessary…

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Lucan Way: While Putin has consistently crushed democracy at home, he seems happy to support competitive elections abroad

(War on the Rocks) In January, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that China had developed “a 21st century surveillance state with unprecedented abilities to censor speech and infringe upon basic human rights.…

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