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Countering Color Revolutions: Russia’s New Security Strategy and its Implications for U.S. Policy

The May 2014 Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS), sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defense, was focused on the role of popular protest, and specifically color revolutions, in international…

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Remember the Mutual Commitments of the Russia-NATO Partnership?

On the eve of the forthcoming NATO summit in Wales, some members of the Alliance are eager to raise the issue of changing—if not completely denouncing—the NATO-Russia Founding Treaty of…

The Troubled Rebirth of Political Opposition in Russia

In the 2000s, most experts considered the role of political opposition in Russia as peripheral at best. But with the protest wave of 2011-12, opposition actors and movements reentered the…

Russian Foreign Policy: Traditional Vectors in a New Geopolitical Situation

The Ukraine crisis is transforming the global geopolitical order. It is eliciting new controversies and clarifying existing ones. It is also intensifying efforts to accelerate integration processes in both the…

Natural Gas and the Ukraine Crisis: From Realpolitik to Network Diplomacy

The current crisis in Ukraine has again foisted natural gas diplomacy to the fore of great power politics. Many view the gas weapon as Moscow’s continuing trump card for coercing…

Upgrading Russia’s Quasi-Strategic Pseudo-Partnership with China

The fast-evolving Ukraine crisis has involved such high stakes and demanded so much attention from Russia’s leadership that it has become the decisive force shaping the country’s future. It has…

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Golden Sanction to Halt Putin in Ukraine Stays Elusive

(Bloomberg) As Russian-backed separatists advance in southeastern Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union are still searching for a sanction that can force Vladimir Putin to stop and think again. More…

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Russia’s Stealth Invasion of Ukraine

It appears that the Russian invasion of Ukraine that I have feared since March has now begun in earnest, with the opening of a new front in the vicinity of…

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New Policy Memo: Daring to Protest: When, Why, and How Russia’s Citizens Engage in Street Protest

The December 2011-March 2012 protests in Russia, unprecedented in scale, surprised even the most astute observers of Russian politics. Were these protests a mere blip on the “normally placid surface…

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Russia’s Decorative Discursive Mimicry

The most persistent component of a variety of Russian pro-Kremlin discourses is its mimicry and imitation of the West. This was so in the 1990s and it still remains the…

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Countering Color Revolutions: Russia’s New Security Strategy and its Implications for U.S. Policy

Remember the Mutual Commitments of the Russia-NATO Partnership?

The Troubled Rebirth of Political Opposition in Russia

Russian Foreign Policy: Traditional Vectors in a New Geopolitical Situation

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Russia’s Stealth Invasion of Ukraine

New Policy Memo: Daring to Protest: When, Why, and How Russia’s Citizens Engage in Street Protest

Russia’s Decorative Discursive Mimicry