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The Myth of Syrian Mercenaries in Karabakh Debunked in Eight Parts

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) From the beginning of the escalation of the conflict in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, some accusations were aired in several European and Russian mainstream media about the…

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What Russian college students learn about US elections, history, and race relations

(PRI) A political science professor in St. Petersburg, Russia, tells The World what his students are discussing in class this week. Most American students are required to take a civics…

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New Wave of Islamic Extremism Adds to Putin’s Troubles

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The series of terrorist attacks in France, in late October, attracted much attention in Russia, sharply dividing public opinion and leaving President Vladimir Putin in an awkward limbo.…

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Russian-Sponsored Security Organizations and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Threat or Misconception?

November 2, 2020

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) While Azerbaijani government officials and observers have alleged a strategy by Armenia to involve Russian-sponsored security organizations in recent escalations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, these claims are…

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Pushkin House Book Prize 2020: The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev

(Pushkin House) Sergei Medvedev, a historian, writer and journalist, has won this year’s Pushkin House Russian book prize for his work The Return of the Russian Leviathan on contemporary Russia. A…

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Tucker: What the Russians did in 2016 was show a toolkit, where you could use deceptive actors online working in coordination with each other

(France 24) Russia’s coordinated effort to nudge Americans toward voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election caught social media companies flat-footed and remains a stain on the reputation of…

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Aktürk: Russia has considerable soft power within EU member states through its connections with far-right, anti-immigrant, and Islamophobic groups

(TRT World) Russia and Turkey face each other on opposing sides over several fronts across Eurasia, from Libya to Syria, and now Azerbaijan, too. Experts say Moscow is hitting Syria’s Idlib…

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New Podcast: Revising Russia’s Constitutional Framework with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov

In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble (Lecturer at University College London) and Nikolay Petrov (Senior Fellow at Chatham House) about ongoing changes to Russia’s national legislature based on the recently revised constitutional…

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Reading the Soy Leaves: What Soybean Imports Say about China’s 2020 Election Preferences

(China Resource Risks) Which candidate do Chinese leaders hope will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Donald Trump or Joe Biden? According to the U.S. Directorate for National Intelligence, the Chinese…

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Tkachenko: Your opponent arrives with a baseball bat. Who will win? Of course, China, which is at least ten times more powerful than Russia

(MEMRI) The recent protests in Kyrgyzstan showed the country’s dependence on the neighboring PRC [People’s Republic of China]. It emerged that during the riots, Chinese business was badly damaged by…

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The Myth of Syrian Mercenaries in Karabakh Debunked in Eight Parts

What Russian college students learn about US elections, history, and race relations

New Wave of Islamic Extremism Adds to Putin’s Troubles

Russian-Sponsored Security Organizations and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Threat or Misconception?

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Tkachenko: Your opponent arrives with a baseball bat. Who will win? Of course, China, which is at least ten times more powerful than Russia