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The EU Takes Aim at Russia’s Natural Gas Weak Spot

  • June 23, 2022
  • Martin Jirušek
In mid-May, the European Commission introduced its “REPowerEU” plan, a response to recent developments in regional and global energy markets and, mainly, disruptions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.…
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Illiberalism and Public Opinion Junctures in Russia’s War on Ukraine

  • June 21, 2022
  • Sarah Wilson Sokhey
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Analysts have identified many reasons President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022.  One major explanation rests on Putin’s illiberal ideology and a desire to return Russia to…
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Fused and Diffused Systems of Public Power in Russia

  • June 18, 2022
  • Kirill Melnikov
The 2020 constitutional amendments changed Russia’s institutional design significantly. Apart from granting President Vladimir Putin the right to participate in subsequent presidential campaigns, one of the most controversial motions was de…
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The Informational Dictator’s Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus

  • June 12, 2022
  • Samuel Greene
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In Russia and throughout much of the post-Soviet space, media are now less free than at any point since the end of the Soviet Union. Authoritarian…
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Ready to Protest? Calculating Protest Potential in Russian Regional Capitals

  • June 5, 2022
  • Irina Busygina and Ekaterina Paustyan
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In recent years, massive urban protests have taken place in the post-Soviet space. Some demonstrations have contributed to political change, like in Ukraine, while elsewhere, they…
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Contentious Cities: Urban Conflicts in Russian Millionniks

  • June 2, 2022
  • Andrei Semenov
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) This past January, residents of Troitsk, a research town (naukograd) of over 60,000 inhabitants to the southwest of Moscow, gathered to protest against the cutting down…
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Influencers, Echo Chambers, and Epistemic Bubbles: Russia’s Academic Discourse in the Wake of the War in Ukraine

  • May 31, 2022
  • Mariya Omelicheva
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine and Russian troops’ atrocities against the Ukrainian people have unleashed an outpouring of condemnation around the world. Sweeping economic sanctions imposed on…
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The Changing “De-facto State Playbook”: From Opportunism to Strategic Calculation

  • May 27, 2022
  • Tetyana Malyarenko and Stefan Wolff
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) We see clear signs that Russia has been applying a “de facto state playbook” in the Ukrainian territories it has seized since the beginning of its…
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The Expanding Russian Cossack Movement: A Social Base for Putinism

  • May 18, 2022
  • Richard Arnold
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On November 27, 2018, the leaders of the 11 Cossack hosts convened in a hall in Moscow and agreed to establish an “All-Russian Cossack Organization” into…
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International Society Must Act in the Wake of Russia’s Failed Opposition

  • May 12, 2022
  • Robert Orttung
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) The failure to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s accumulation of power made possible his invasion of Ukraine. If Russian society hopes to prevent future tragedies, ordinary citizens…
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