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Tenth Anniversary of Putin’s Munich Speech: A Commitment to Failure

(EDM) The annual Munich Security Conference will take place later this week (February 17–19). And it was ten years ago at this forum that President Vladimir Putin delivered an inflammatory speech…

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Petrov: The Kremlin no longer needs to create the impression of real political competition

(CSM) The legal odyssey of Russia's best-known opposition leader, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, has been mindbogglingly complicated, full of twists and turns. Nevertheless, experts say, it has wound up with a…

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Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures [NEW BOOK]

(Co-editors: A. Makarychev and A. Yatsyk) This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in Europe to a potential area…

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Russia’s Little War in Ukraine Does Not Help Kremlin to Befriend Trump

(EDM) The sharp escalation in artillery battles in the Donbas (eastern Ukraine) war zone one day after the January 28 telephone conversation between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President…

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Russia–EU Borderlands after the Ukraine Crisis: The Case of Narva

(Book chapter) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the military insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces triggered political and academic debates on various issues related to post-Soviet borderlands, above…

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Biopower and geopolitics as Russia’s neighborhood strategies: reconnecting people or reaggregating lands?

(Nationalities Papers) (Co-author: A. Yatsyk) In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant…

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Nation Building, Political Boundaries, and Cultural Authenticity: Post-Soviet Borderlands in Transformation

(Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) This article analyzes today’s independent ex-Soviet borderlands (Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia) of the Russian Federation. More precisely, the authors identify the cultural and social practices…

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