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The Kremlin’s Compulsion for Whataboutisms: Western Experience in the Putin Regime’s Political Rhetoric

From time to time, Russian authorities appeal to Western experience for different reasons. While they sometimes do this to signal the need to adopt advanced managerial or other best practices,…

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Putin’s Regime and Semiotic Irony

Semioticians probably have the best sense of humor among all social scientists. Those who think that the hegemonic discourse in today's Russia is boring are wrong. Some of its segments…

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Russia’s Predicament and the Plight of One Economist

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The Russia–European Union summit opens today (June 3) in Yekaterinburg, according to the twice-yearly schedule and amidst mutual irritation and disappearing expectations. Quarrels about the Syrian calamity…

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Russia’s New Science President Fortov Faces Uphill Battle

(The Moscow News) There’s a new president in town, and his name is Vladimir Fortov. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, that is. Fortov, a prominent Russian physicist and…

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Afghanistan after 2014: The Way Forward for Russia

(Ifri report) It may appear that Russia is equally dissatisfied with both Western security’s presence in and its departure from Afghanistan planned for 2014, but whether the Western withdrawal is…

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What Surkov’s Ousting Signifies About Russia’s Course in Syria

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Russia has captured much political attention in the West in the last few days because of its allegedly central role in the deadlocked civil war in Syria.…

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Is There Willful Misinterpretation of FARA in Russia?

PONARS Eurasia members discuss the Russian Duma's “foreign agent” NGO law and references to the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA; 1938). The FARA database can be searched here: http://www.fara.gov/quick-search.html…

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Europe Day: Diversity Instead of Unity?

May 9 is Victory Day for Russia and Europe Day for the EU. These continental celebrations, however, form an indicative illustration of how far away from each other Moscow and…

Почему теракт в Бостоне не сломал стереотипов о Чечне и России

(Forbes.ru) В США рассматривают терроризм на Кавказе лишь как следствие репрессивной политики Москвы. Ситуация сложнее, но российская пропаганда с ее методами не может достучаться до американского общественного мнения. Террористический акт…

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Civil Society in Russian Politics: Editor’s Introduction

In the aftermath of the public protests that accompanied the 2011–12 Russian electoral season, the topic of civil society in Russia returned to a level of prominence it had not…

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The Kremlin’s Compulsion for Whataboutisms: Western Experience in the Putin Regime’s Political Rhetoric

Putin’s Regime and Semiotic Irony

Russia’s Predicament and the Plight of One Economist

Russia’s New Science President Fortov Faces Uphill Battle

Afghanistan after 2014: The Way Forward for Russia

What Surkov’s Ousting Signifies About Russia’s Course in Syria

Is There Willful Misinterpretation of FARA in Russia?

Europe Day: Diversity Instead of Unity?

Почему теракт в Бостоне не сломал стереотипов о Чечне и России

Civil Society in Russian Politics: Editor’s Introduction