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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

(Moscow Times) Russia’s signature Sputnik V (for “Victory”) Covid-19 vaccine has been enmeshed in controversy from the moment of its launch. Western analysts have questioned Sputnik V’s safety, efficacy, and most…

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Petrov: The perception that Putin has stayed away from the public doesn’t compare well to Navalny’s bold comeback

(AP) The return to Russia from Germany by opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked by chaos and popular outrage, and it ended, almost predictably, with his arrest. The Jan. 17 flight…

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Navalny Has Set a Damning Dilemma for Putin’s Regime

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The decision of Russian democratic opposition leader Alexei Navalny to return to Moscow was announced on January 13 in a deliberately matter-of-fact way—and produced a full-blown political storm.…

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Rogov: Navalny’s return is a brave step; Kurilla: Navalny has set the agenda

(Deutsche Welle) An arrest warrant instead of flowers. With barely enough time to leave the plane, Alexei Navalny was taken into police custody. It was a cold reception for one of the…

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Greene: The signs in Russia are there—the discontent is there, the deprivation is there

(RFE/RL) When Vladimir Lenin stepped off a train at St. Petersburg’s Finland Station in April 1917, he set in motion events that would transform Russia and ultimately divide the world into…

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How Much Should We Worry About a Resurrected Russia? More Than You Might Think

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) President Vladimir Putin, in a quote he attributed to Winston Churchill, declared as early as 2006 that, “Russia is never as strong as she looks, Russia is never…

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Kurilla: The American variety of public opinion is alien to Russians

(Meduza) Allegations that Twitter violated the First Amendment are misguided because the U.S. Constitution only bars state censorship, according to historian Ivan Kurilla. American culture, however, has long endured other means of restricting free…

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Russia’s opaque digitalisation

(Riddle) At the 2018 Gaidar Forum, an annual gathering of Russian experts and reformist officials, participants were asked to vote on their preferred methods of public control over the state. Digital platforms turned…

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Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Scholars of international relations and Russian politics actively debate whether some “grand strategy” underpins Russian foreign policy choices in the Putin era. For instance, prominent American military historian…

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What Yeltsin’s assault on the legislature can teach us about American democracy

(National Post) In October 1993, a weak and desperate president ordered a frontal assault on his legislature. Then Russia’s great democratic hero, Boris Yeltsin had become convinced that the country’s parliament…

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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

Petrov: The perception that Putin has stayed away from the public doesn’t compare well to Navalny’s bold comeback

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Rogov: Navalny’s return is a brave step; Kurilla: Navalny has set the agenda

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Nested Games? The Inconsistencies of Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia

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