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Tkachenko: It is unclear what measures the Russian government can utilize to change falling living standards

(Russia Direct) A sharp drop in oil prices in the winter of 2014 vividly revealed the structural economic problems in Russia, triggering an economic recession from which the country still has not fully…

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It’s Not All Negative: Russian Media’s Flexible Coverage of Protest as a Regime Survival Strategy

(PONARS Policy Memo) Pundits continue to debate whether economic shocks, public discontent at home, and isolation abroad will shake President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Much of the commentary on Putin’s survival…

Russia’s Strategic Calculus: Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrine

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian foreign policy is driven by the political elites’ search for a new basis for national self-esteem after the collapse of the Soviet Union disrupted old Soviet…

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Here’s how Trump’s election will affect U.S.-Russian relations

(Monkey Cage/WP) Contributors: Yoshiko Herrera, Andrew Kydd, Dmitry Gorenburg, Michael Kofman, Andrew Barnes, Mariya Omelicheva, Eric McGlinchey, and Marlene Laruelle. Over the course of the recent U.S. presidential campaign, Donald…

Mistrust Sets Low Ceiling for Russia-China Partnership: Deconstructing the Putin-Xi Jinping Relationship

(PONARS Policy Memo) No amount of propaganda can hide the fact that the Russian-Chinese partnership is not progressing well. Economic cooperation was supposed to constitute a solid foundation for a…

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Smyth: With the email issue, you have two U.S. government agencies saying that Russia was responsible for the hacks

(IDS) In what many commentators are calling one of the most heated elections in the nation’s history, one issue remains cold: Russia. United States relations with Russia are reminiscent of…

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Russian Patriotism without Patriots? Interviews (in Perm and Tyumen) Reveal the Limitations of Patriotic Education

(PONARS Policy Memo) Soon after assuming the presidency in 2012, Vladimir Putin launched a series of political and economic reforms intended to strengthen the hand of the central government over…

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U.S.-Russia relations in Central Asia: Change within

(Washington Times) While the US-Russia relationship has been deteriorating rapidly since 2014 and faces a new crisis with the current situation around Aleppo, the bilateral relationship in Central Asia has been relatively…

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What’s next for Russian foreign policy?

(ELN) As of late autumn 2016, Russian foreign policy continues to be focused on enhancing Russia's status as a great power. Moscow is looking for opportunities to convert its growing military…

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Smyth: “The state of Russian Studies is ascendant…” [AUDIO]

(NPR/WBUR) "Russian studies used to be a much more robust field in the United States compared to today. Interest took a sharp decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union…

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Tkachenko: It is unclear what measures the Russian government can utilize to change falling living standards

It’s Not All Negative: Russian Media’s Flexible Coverage of Protest as a Regime Survival Strategy

Russia’s Strategic Calculus: Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrine

Here’s how Trump’s election will affect U.S.-Russian relations

Mistrust Sets Low Ceiling for Russia-China Partnership: Deconstructing the Putin-Xi Jinping Relationship

Smyth: With the email issue, you have two U.S. government agencies saying that Russia was responsible for the hacks

Russian Patriotism without Patriots? Interviews (in Perm and Tyumen) Reveal the Limitations of Patriotic Education

U.S.-Russia relations in Central Asia: Change within

What’s next for Russian foreign policy?

Smyth: “The state of Russian Studies is ascendant…” [AUDIO]