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Strength Without Kindness: Russia’s Persistent Xenophobia and the State

When designing an opinion survey on immigration attitudes in Russia that a reputable Levada Analytical Center carried out in 2005, I included a measure of extreme xenophobia used in Eurobarometer…

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Orttung, Zhemukhov: Pride and Corruption Permeate the Games

(The New York Times Magazine) Anatoly Pakhomov was elected mayor of Sochi after the type of ersatz campaign that passes for democracy in Russia. It was 2009, and he had…

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Gorenburg: Sochi’s Security Measures for Counterterrorism and Crowd Control

(The Verge) The Sochi Winter Games are already the most expensive Olympics on record, and they're shaping up to be the most watched, as well — not by spectators or…

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EU-Russia: Facing Stagnation

(Policy Brief) For the best part of the last two decades, EU-Russia summits have alternated between being upbeat events where new grand integration initiatives were launched – the creation of…

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Russian Military Preparations for Central Asian Instability

The most recent issue of the Moscow Defense Brief has an interesting article by Maksim Shepovalenko on "Russian Preparations for Reduced Foreign Military Presence in Afghanstan." It starts with the…

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Misplaced and Miscalculated Risk Assessments of Putin’s Games

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The pre-planned introduction of an extra-tough security regime around Sochi last Tuesday (January 7) has brought an escalation of concerns about safety at the 22nd Winter Olympic…

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Will the G8 in Sochi Overshadow the G20 in St. Petersburg?

(Russia Direct) Before discussing the possible results and outcomes of the upcoming G8 Summit in Sochi in June 2014, it’s first important to analyze the results from the recent G20…

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Baev: Heightened Security and Blanket Surveillance in Sochi

(Time) “For both groups, the security conditions in Sochi will come as something of a shock,” [Pavel] Baev says, like trying to maintain the Olympic spirit inside a “besieged fortress.”…

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Kuchins: Precarious Time between Now and the Sochi Games

(The Jewish Voice) “Attacking the Sochi Olympics itself would be the ‘Holy Grail’ for one of these terrorist groups,” said Andrew Kuchins, who directs the Russia and Eurasia Program at…

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Russia Admits Manufacturing Weaknesses

The Russian government promulgated an interesting decree recently. It prohibits the import of foreign goods or work by foreigners for the Russian defense and security sectors, except in cases where…

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Strength Without Kindness: Russia’s Persistent Xenophobia and the State

Orttung, Zhemukhov: Pride and Corruption Permeate the Games

Gorenburg: Sochi’s Security Measures for Counterterrorism and Crowd Control

EU-Russia: Facing Stagnation

Russian Military Preparations for Central Asian Instability

Misplaced and Miscalculated Risk Assessments of Putin’s Games

Will the G8 in Sochi Overshadow the G20 in St. Petersburg?

Baev: Heightened Security and Blanket Surveillance in Sochi

Kuchins: Precarious Time between Now and the Sochi Games

Russia Admits Manufacturing Weaknesses