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Year 2020 in Review: The Maturation of Russia’s Autocracy

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Russia’s post-Soviet counter-transition arrived at its logical conclusion in 2020: Starting from a fledgling democracy in the 1990s, the country shifted to an “enlightened authoritarianism” in the 2000s,…

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The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal

(Sage) This essay attempts to juxtapose mass-scale protest movements that almost simultaneously erupted in summer 2020 in Belarus and Russia’s Far East. In spite of dissimilar root causes of both events,…

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Accusing Russia of Fascism: Polemics around Russia’s Belonging to Europe

(Russia in Global Affairs) Abstract: With memory wars between Central and Eastern European states and Russia, the Second World War has become a useable past instrumentalized as a currency for legitimacy on…

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The Real and Projected Strategic Dimension of the Russian Black Sea Fleet

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since its annexation of Crimea, Russia has not deviated from its coercive military behavior, displaying its military might again and again. The substance of its military…

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Greene: Putin’s inability to say Navalny’s name out loud is bordering on the absurd

(RFE/RL) As he does, Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to a Soviet-era pop culture reference to get his message across at one point in his 4 1/2-hour annual press conference on December 17,…

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The Soviets’ Dark Nuclear Romance

(War on the Rocks podcast) Once the Soviets got the nuclear arsenal Stalin had sought, they had to learn to live with the bomb – and all the dilemmas that came…

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The Curious Case of State-Driven Regionalism in the Russian Far East

Policy Memo: 682Publication Date: 12-2020Author(s): Ekaterina Koldunova (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the turn of the century, the idea of the Russian Far Eastern regions’ economic rise through cooperation with…

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EaP Bulletin No. 13: Devastating acceleration of COVID-19 across the whole of Europe

(3DCFTAs) The global pandemic charges on. In the two and a half months, from the end of September to mid-December, the world total number of infections more than doubled to…

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Twigg: I worry about whether or not people are going to be willing to take Sputnik V in Russia

(Global News) While excitement and enthusiasm greeted the Western-developed coronavirus vaccine when it was rolled out, the Russian-made version has received a mixed response, with reports of empty Moscow clinics that offered the shot to health…

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The Politics of Fear: How the Russian Regime Confronts Its Opponents

(Russian Social Science Review) Abstract: The article attempts to analyze the mechanisms of political control used by the Kremlin vis-à-vis its rivals. Russian authorities had opted the politics of fear, which include…

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Year 2020 in Review: The Maturation of Russia’s Autocracy

The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal

Accusing Russia of Fascism: Polemics around Russia’s Belonging to Europe

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The Politics of Fear: How the Russian Regime Confronts Its Opponents