Will the Russian Economy Accelerate in 2015?
Paradoxically, some healthy economic developments occurred in Russia in 2014 owing to its conflict with the West and the decline in oil prices. The “forced” reversal of some mistaken economic…
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New Book! Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World
This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions…
Biopolitics and Power in Putin’s Russia
(Problems of Post-Communism) Abstract: In Putin’s third term, official rhetoric has become a normative, moralizing discourse promoting Russian traditional values as opposed to the “moral decay” of the West. This “biopolitical…
The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can It Cope with Both?
(FIIA briefing paper) The military conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine is the main factor determining also the internal political situation in the country. On the one hand, as…
Putin regime unable to change course
(UCLA II event recap) The Putin regime is fighting for its survival, using the annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine to boost its popularity and retain the…
New Memo: Torn Between Patriotism and Economic Necessities: Russia’s EU Borderlands & the Food Embargo
In response to Western sanctions, in August 2014 Russia introduced an embargo on meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables from the EU, Norway, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The ban…
Torn Between Patriotism and Economic Necessities: Russia’s EU Borderlands after the Food Embargo
In response to Western sanctions, in August 2014 Russia introduced an embargo on meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables from the EU, Norway, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The ban…
Exclusive: Sanctions and Regime Survival
Some debates never die; they just get replayed. After the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in late December 1979, the United States imposed economic sanctions against the USSR. The Russian Federation…
Free Rein of Special Services Makes Russia Ungovernable
(EDM) It took a week for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to produce a pair of plausible suspects in the shocking murder of Boris Nemtsov on February 28 (see EDM,…
War of words: the impact of Russian state television on the Russian Internet
(Nationalities Papers) How effective is Russian state television in framing the conflict in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan protests and what is its impact on Russian Internet users? We carried…