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A More Proactive U.S. Approach to the Georgia Conflicts

February 16, 2011

New Publication & Event Recap Cory Welt, Associate Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School, and Samuel Charap, Associate Director for…

Are Oil Prices Linked to Reform in Russia?

PONARS Eurasia members took a closer look at the periodically-floated theory that oil barrel prices correlate with reform measures in Russia over time. Their comments were sparked by a…

Manas Revisited

The situation around the fueling contract for the Manas Air Transit Center continues to involve the highest levels of government in both the United States and Kyrgyzstan. A new…

Quick Comment — Unrest in Russia

Among the various actors involved with the recent Moscow demonstrations (soccer fans, right-wing groups, the Kremlin, Russian power structures, ethnic minorities), who is controlling whom? Or is this just…

How to Get a Second Term in 2012: Russian Edition

How to Get a Second Term in 2012: Russian Edition (Originally published by Joshua Tucker on The Monkey Cage) I'm just back from the newly renamed Association for Slavic,…

Radical Islam in Tatarstan?

Originally published in the Atlantic Sentinel — Even if youngsters in Tatarstan are becoming Islamic, the authorities in this Russian republic have little reason to fear a surge in religious extremism.…

Quick Comment — NATO

This week's NATO Lisbon Summit is set to launch “NATO 3.0.” The follow-on NATO-Russia Summit heralds “NATO-Russia 3.0,” the latest effort to reinvigorate security cooperation after the stagnation of…

Nemtsov in the House

“In order to modernize, change the Putin system.” -Boris Nemtsov Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Nizhny Novgorod Governor Boris Nemtsov presented his prospects for democracy in Russia at…

Mayor Yuri Luzhkov

The Firing of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov: A Reader's Guide (Originally published by Joshua Tucker on The Monkey Cage) Earlier today Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev fired Moscow mayor…

Abkhazia and South Ossetia: “Asymmetric Sovereignty”?

August 27, 2010

On August 25, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies held a seminar on the implications of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, in which some innovative discussion was devoted…

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