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Who is at the Gate?: The Symbolic Battle of Stalingrad in Contemporary Russia

During the first years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s administration paid little or no attention to the old symbols of Russian national pride. Liberal ideology, as…

Strong Men, Weak State: Power Ministry Officials and the Federal Districts

Vladimir Putin's KGB past, strong state rhetoric, and specific policy decisions (Chechnya, the attacks on media oligarchs Boris Berezovskii and Vladimir Gusinskii, etc.) have heightened fears of the return to…

From the CIS to the SES: A New Integrationist Game in Post-Soviet Space

On September 19, 2003, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Yalta on “The Concept of a Single Economic Space” (SES). The idea behind this agreement was…

The United States and Russia Today: A Practical Partnership

U.S.-Russian relations today can be characterized best as pragmatic. But this pragmatism is a very specific one. The partnership between Russia and the United States is driven by expediency rather than principle…

The View of Russian Electoral Reforms from Russia’s Ethnic Republics

President Putin’s proposal to eliminate gubernatorial elections throughout Russia caught the leaders of Russia’s ethnic republics by surprise. Although it was widely known that such ideas had been circulating in the…

Walking on Thin Ice: Putin’s Rapprochement with the United States on the Background of the Latent Anti-Americanism in Russia

The United States—although it attracts many immigrants and students from all over the world and its lifestyle is widely emulated—is also an object of intense and widespread hatred. The apparent…

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Who is at the Gate?: The Symbolic Battle of Stalingrad in Contemporary Russia

Strong Men, Weak State: Power Ministry Officials and the Federal Districts

From the CIS to the SES: A New Integrationist Game in Post-Soviet Space

The United States and Russia Today: A Practical Partnership

The View of Russian Electoral Reforms from Russia’s Ethnic Republics

Walking on Thin Ice: Putin’s Rapprochement with the United States on the Background of the Latent Anti-Americanism in Russia

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