Prigozhin’s Fate in Putin’s Russia: The Political Roles of Aircraft

Image credit/license In Russia, politicians who run afoul of President Vladimir Putin are at risk of being killed by poison, defenestration, or gunshot, or of being sentenced to harsh prison…

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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Multiple Ideological Agendas, One Tactical Goal

Image credit/license Just like the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the civil war in Syria in the 2010s, the war in Ukraine has produced an environment conducive to…

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One Step Ahead of the Dictator: OVD-Info and the Rebuilding of Russian Civil Society

Russian human rights groups have never had it easy. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has only made matters worse, sparking an unprecedented wave of repression and forcing many activists to…

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The Spatiality of War and Challenges in Restoring Ukraine’s Economy

With well over a year of large-scale and highly destructive warfare already passed, Ukraine has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore and enhance its economic potential, even amid the…

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A Final Reckoning? Sino-Russian Relations Amid Russia’s War on Ukraine

As Russia’s war in Ukraine raged last year, Russia and China were getting closer in trade and diplomacy. China’s trade turnover with Russia reached new highs, and China became one…

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is on a rising trajectory. At the 2022 Samarkand Summit, Iran officially signed a memorandum of obligation to join as a full-fledged member. For the…

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Tbilisi’s Transactional Foreign Policy Leads Georgians Astray

Conventional wisdom holds that small states in hostile environments have minimal menus of foreign policy options. This theory is being tested in the countries wedged between Russia and the EU/NATO…

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Ukraine, Taiwan, and Macron’s “Strategic Autonomy”

PONARS Eurasia Commentary | In Europe, one now wonders whether President Emmanuel Macron and his “strategic autonomy” proposal caused damage to the political and military cohesion of the West on…

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Russia’s Administrators: The Weakest Link in a Crisis

The evolution of the Russian political system in the past 20 years was guided by several priorities that had a lasting impact on who we see as public officials at…

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After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed

NEW BOOK | Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in history, the seizure of School No. 1 in…

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