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(The New York Times) (Co-author: Christopher Walker) — When Russian tax and law enforcement authorities recently raided the Moscow offices of Human Rights Watch, they invited a television crew from…
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Why the Kremlin Is Targeting NGOs
(Moscow Times) The authorities have initiated an unprecedented campaign against nongovernmental organizations, conducting burdensome inspections of their offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, Krasnodar, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don and dozens of…
New Ambiguity in Georgian-Russian Relations
Relations between Russia and Georgia are going through some changes after the new government came to power in Georgia. If before, Saakashvili and Putin/Medvedev had been exercising a policy of…
Don’t Give Up on the U.S.-Russian Reset
(The National Interest) (Co-authored by Ivan Kurilla) Hope that the U.S.-Russia “reset” would survive Vladimir Putin’s return to the Russian presidency has crumbled in the last few months, as Moscow…
Russia’s Ivory Tower is on Shuddering Ground
(Co-authored by Andrey Makarychev and Boris Lanin). While the Kremlin habitually exhibits progress in the Russian higher education system by showcasing projects such as the Skolkovo Institute of Technology and…
Defending the Mistral
Today, I want to highlight a new Russian-language resource for analysts of the Russian military. The Waran Project bills itself as an informational and analytical resource put together by independent (though…
New Policy Memo: Academic Integrity in Russia Today
While academic plagiarism was not unheard of (or rare) in the Soviet period, it was not as pervasive as it is in contemporary Russia. Plagiarism became especially problematic in the…
Academic Integrity in Russia Today: The Political and Social Implications of Thesis Falsification and Education Reform
While academic plagiarism was not unheard of (or rare) in the Soviet period, it was not as pervasive as it is in contemporary Russia. Plagiarism became especially problematic in the…
Russia and China vie for Influence in Central Asia
I’m still swamped with various projects, so in the meantime, here’s another Oxford Analytica brief. This one is from mid-December… —- Although China and the United States have focused greater…
Performance as Resistance
Berlin was recently full of posters and billboards announcing a Russian cultural festival, “Wie klingt Russland?” (“How does Russia sound?”), featuring a young lady with her ear to the top…