The North Caucasus and the Russian War in Ukraine
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the challenges faced by the Russian army have increasingly fed discussions about the political future of Russia, presidential succession, and the danger of…
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Irrelevant Intrigues and Diminished Power Projection: Russia in Retreat from the Middle East
Ambitions rather than interests have shaped Russian policy in the Middle East in the last decade, and the overlapping crises in this turbulent region have indeed presented many useful opportunities…
What is the ideology of a mobilized Russia?
(Russia Post) Russia has entered a new phase of the war with the “partial” mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin on September 21, exactly seven months after his (first) speech launching the “special…
The Most Consequential World Cup in History?
Sporting Mega Events rarely have a direct impact on current events and tend to be seen as reflective of international politics on other levels. Yet as the world prepares for…
Russia’s Great Transformational Failure
(Tablet Magazine) Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera. The collapse of the Soviet system led to a period…
Alarming Alterations: How Memory Politics Turned the Russian Constitution into a War Weapon
When, in 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward major changes to the country’s constitution, the set of meanings established by the new provisions dealing with Russia’s past was largely…
Russia’s Icebreakers, North Sea Route, and Invasion of Ukraine
Even before Soviet times, Russian icebreakers were considered one of the country’s main strengths in the Arctic. As Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov put it over a century ago in 1897,…
How Conservative Are Russians? Findings from the 2021 LegitRuss Survey
Beginning in 2011-12, the Kremlin and the media it controls embarked on what analysts have widely called “the Conservative Turn.” With support slipping and the largest protests of the Putin…
The Russian Economic Conundrum: A New Global Stress Test and Reboot of Globalization
Russia’s unjustified assault on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, drove a final stake into the heart of the post-Cold War period, dramatically shifted global politics and economics, and marked a…
Russia’s 2022 Anti-War Exodus: The Attitudes and Expectations of Russian Migrants
Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled their homeland after their government launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. It has been the largest brain drain from Russia since…