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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 5: International cooperation in combating terrorism

With apologies for the long delay, today I'm posting the final installment of my notes from the 2015 Moscow Conference on International Security, covering the panel on combating terrorism and…

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Moshes: Moscow was merely attempting to minimize the effect of future scandals

(RBTH) Business daily Kommersant reports that on the eve of June’s EU summit, at which the question of extending sanctions against Russia will be considered, relations between Moscow and Brussels have been shaken…

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Weakening Russia Curtails Population’s Access to Publicly Available Information

(EDM) Russia’s deteriorating economic situation is exacerbating the various social problems in the country, and the authorities are apparently finding no other way to deal with such issues but to shut…

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Petrov: This law is much more dangerous, and has far wider applications, than the previous ones

(CSM) MOSCOW — Russia's largest grassroots election watchdog, Golos, has been almost driven out of existence by a law passed three years ago that saddled it with a "foreign agent" label – which connotes "spy"…

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The Kremlin Grows Nervous About the Future—and With Good Reason

(EDM) It is still difficult to figure out what sorts of conclusions President Vladimir Putin drew from the long meeting he held with US Secretary of State John Kerry two…

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The “Russian World”: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination

(CGI paper) The concept of the “Russian World” (russkii mir) has a long history rooted in the 1990s, but it was propelled under the media spotlight in 2014, when Russian…

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Russia and China Go Sailing: Superpower on Display in the Eastern Mediterranean

(Foreign Affairs) On May 21, Russia and China concluded ten days of joint naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean, which included live-fire drills. Although the militaries of the two countries claimed…

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Prominent Economist to Leave Russia, Cites Politics

(The Moscow Times) Prominent liberal economist and commentator Konstantin Sonin, who was reportedly squeezed out of a top job at a Russian public university earlier this year, said Wednesday that he will leave the country…

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Remembrance and Mourning Day for Circassians

In time for the annual May 21 “Circassian Day of Remembrance and Mourning,” filmmaker Dalia Alsadi released a documentary titled “Circassians.” The film centers on the how the 2014 Sochi…

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Russians see Ukraine as an illegitimate state

(Monkey Cage/WP) (Co-authored with Mikhail Alexseev) Why have so many Russian citizens seemingly been so cavalier about the dismemberment of Ukraine, a sovereign state that majorities of Russia’s population had long viewed…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 5: International cooperation in combating terrorism

Moshes: Moscow was merely attempting to minimize the effect of future scandals

Weakening Russia Curtails Population’s Access to Publicly Available Information

Petrov: This law is much more dangerous, and has far wider applications, than the previous ones

The Kremlin Grows Nervous About the Future—and With Good Reason

The “Russian World”: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination

Russia and China Go Sailing: Superpower on Display in the Eastern Mediterranean

Prominent Economist to Leave Russia, Cites Politics

Remembrance and Mourning Day for Circassians

Russians see Ukraine as an illegitimate state