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Odessa: A Local Dimension of Ukraine’s Revolution, Crisis, and Conflict

The Ukrainian region and city of Odessa, situated on the Black Sea adjacent to Romania and Moldova (and Transnistria), was a major focal point during the Euromaidan, the annexation of…

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Kramer offers a compelling explanation of the Kremlin’s worry about revolutions

(WP) Is Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to engineer a frozen conflict in Eastern Ukraine? That’s what some observers argue: that the main goal of sending troops there is to create permafrost, much like…

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Baev: Russia conflates the Islamic State with other Islamist factions and opposition groups

(Wall Street Journal) Russian warplanes continued airstrikes overnight in Syria, as officials Thursday dismissed Western assertions that Moscow wasn’t targeting Islamic State in Syria but was aiming at other opponents…

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Putin’s Syrian intrigue has yielded zero dividends

(European Leadership Network) Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war appeared to gain momentum every day over the past month, up until President Vladimir Putin’s address to the UN General…

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New Memo: One Nation, Two Languages? National Identity and Language Policy in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

One of the most talked about consequences of recent events in Ukraine is a dramatic transformation in Ukrainian national identity. Social activists and various elites regularly assert their increased self-identification…

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One Nation, Two Languages? National Identity and Language Policy in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

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Let Putin try to improve the hopeless situation in Syria

The chaos in Syria should be blamed on Assad's repression and brutality from the start of the uprising against him. But it has been 4 years. Solutions that were possible…

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Eurasian Visions: Integration and Geopolitics in Central Asia

(Policy Perspectives) This collection of policy memos is based on the proceedings of a June 2015 PONARS Eurasia workshop, Security and Regional Integration in Eurasia, held at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. In this…

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Time for Tough Talk With Putin? Interview with Kimberly Marten

(The Takeaway) September 28—President Obama will formally meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since Russia annexed Crimea and armed secessionist rebels in eastern Ukraine. The presidents have plenty to…

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Gorenburg: Russian military activity in Syria partly to maintain a role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

(Voice of America) Each day brings new reports of heightened Russian military activity in Syria. For more than four years, Russia has suggested it was open to a political solution…

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Odessa: A Local Dimension of Ukraine’s Revolution, Crisis, and Conflict

Kramer offers a compelling explanation of the Kremlin’s worry about revolutions

Baev: Russia conflates the Islamic State with other Islamist factions and opposition groups

Putin’s Syrian intrigue has yielded zero dividends

New Memo: One Nation, Two Languages? National Identity and Language Policy in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

One Nation, Two Languages? National Identity and Language Policy in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

Let Putin try to improve the hopeless situation in Syria

Eurasian Visions: Integration and Geopolitics in Central Asia

Time for Tough Talk With Putin? Interview with Kimberly Marten

Gorenburg: Russian military activity in Syria partly to maintain a role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process