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Baev: Moscow is pretending to act as a key peace-promoter in Libya, but in fact is acting as a spoiler

(Brookings) The United States should retain a stake in the international management of the Libyan conflict for many reasons, and one of them is that Russia is deeply engaged. Moscow is…

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The Russian Parliament and the Pandemic: A State of Emergency, Post-constitutional Changes, Retaliatory Laws

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Russian Parliament’s 2020 spring session was in many ways both expectedly and unexpectedly historic. It began with a January 15 presidential address to the Federal Assembly,…

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Becoming banal: incentivizing and monopolizing the nation in post-Soviet Russia

(Ethnic and Racial Studies) Abstract: While new regimes often seek legitimation by forging banal ties between state and nation (or “banalization”), there have been few attempts to explain how nationalism becomes banal,…

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The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence inside the United States: A Moving Target

(4FreeRussia) The study scopes out the Kremlin’s malign social media operations in the United States, their key purveyors, platforms and enablers. It analyzes how the Russian approach to conducting social media…

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Russia’s New Political Momentum

(AIIA) Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia on 17 January 2021, his immediate arrest at the border, and a court verdict sentencing him to two years and eight months in jail started…

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Pasta and Sugar, Not Navalny, Are Putin’s Main Worries

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In late 2020, food prices and the Russian citizens’ access to staple foods have emerged as one of Putin’s main concerns. Over the last year, the price of pasta…

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The Russian Military Police, from Syria to Karabakh

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Following the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement signed in Moscow on November 9, 2020, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that units of the Military Police…

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Petrov: Navalny has ruined Putin’s gambit

(Wall Street Journal) MOSCOW—The jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last month galvanized the biggest popular protests in Russia in nearly a decade, as his supporters were joined across the country…

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Kurilla: No preparations for a foreign intervention, but prior operations largely began after the acute phase of home unrest was over

(U.S. News & World Report) The top U.S. military official for Europe on Wednesday expressed concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin may attempt to spur another crisis abroad as a way to…

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Greene: The Kremlin has come to the conclusion that coercion is a better strategy than persuasion

(Slate) “This is not a sentence against him, but against all of us.” That’s how Ilya Klishin, a prominent Russian former journalist, described a Moscow court’s ruling yesterday sentencing opposition leader Alexei Navalny to…

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Baev: Moscow is pretending to act as a key peace-promoter in Libya, but in fact is acting as a spoiler

The Russian Parliament and the Pandemic: A State of Emergency, Post-constitutional Changes, Retaliatory Laws

Becoming banal: incentivizing and monopolizing the nation in post-Soviet Russia

The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence inside the United States: A Moving Target

Russia’s New Political Momentum

Pasta and Sugar, Not Navalny, Are Putin’s Main Worries

The Russian Military Police, from Syria to Karabakh

Petrov: Navalny has ruined Putin’s gambit

Kurilla: No preparations for a foreign intervention, but prior operations largely began after the acute phase of home unrest was over

Greene: The Kremlin has come to the conclusion that coercion is a better strategy than persuasion