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Will there be a ‘full, rapid, and transparent investigation’ of Boris Nemtsov’s murder? Don’t bet on it.

(The Monkey Cage/WP) After Boris Nemtsov’s brazen assassination a stone’s throw from the Kremlin, Secretary of State John Kerry called on the Russian authorities to “to act expeditiously to investigate and…

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Special Issue: State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

(Europe-Asia Studies) The wave of protests that shook the Russian capital and scores of Russian cities over the period 2011 to 2013 came as a great shock to the political…

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The Ukrainian Crisis and its Impact on Transforming Russian Nationalism Landscape

(New Book Chapter) The Ukrainian crisis shattered the ideological status quo in Russia, the place of socalled ‘Russian nationalists’ in the public space, and the competition between different groups claiming to…

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Kuchins: Russia has been doing everything possible to hide involvement in the insurgency

(Bloomberg) — As the U.S. State Department’s No. 2 official warned against a military response to the Ukraine crisis, President Barack Obama is facing growing pressure from other top advisers…

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Why Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire

(The New York Times) (Co-authored with Bernard Sucher) The American government tends to see sanctions against Russia as a low-cost policy that will eventually force Vladimir Putin to change course in…

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The question to ask about Boris Nemtsov’s murder is not who but why?

(The Monkey cage/WP) The problem moving forward – for analysts, opposition, patriots, and citizens – is not really explaining who assassinated Boris Nemtsov. Most people already have their own theories…

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Changing the Color Revolutionary Discourse in Russia

On March 3, chairman of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee (and key Kremlin propagandist) Alexey Pushkov publicly admitted there are at least three scenarios for a “color revolution” in…

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Russian citizens owe it to Boris Nemtsov to keep the hope of democracy in Russia alive

(LSE Blogs) I first heard of Boris Nemtsov when I was a young Russian graduate student in America in the mid-1990s contemplating pursuing a PhD in Russian regional politics. For a…

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Petrov: It’s hard to discern who did it and what they were trying to provoke

(CSM) MOSCOW — If the track record is anything to go by, Russians may never find out who gunned down liberal activist Boris Nemtsov on a bridge beside the Kremlin last Friday,…

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Murder That Revealed Truth

(EDM) The photograph that hit millions of computer and smartphone screens late Friday (February 27) night, Moscow time, has instantly become a clear-focused image of what Russia has become amidst the…

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Will there be a ‘full, rapid, and transparent investigation’ of Boris Nemtsov’s murder? Don’t bet on it.

Special Issue: State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

The Ukrainian Crisis and its Impact on Transforming Russian Nationalism Landscape

Kuchins: Russia has been doing everything possible to hide involvement in the insurgency

Why Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire

The question to ask about Boris Nemtsov’s murder is not who but why?

Changing the Color Revolutionary Discourse in Russia

Russian citizens owe it to Boris Nemtsov to keep the hope of democracy in Russia alive

Petrov: It’s hard to discern who did it and what they were trying to provoke

Murder That Revealed Truth