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Russia’s Problems Grow Into Big Trouble, but Putin Remains Aloof

(EDM) The Russian Security Council held a virtual session last Friday (August 7), and President Vladimir Putin opened with the proposal to discuss the “international situation in general”; if his subordinates…

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Hot off the Press, Colder in Scope: Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Fundamentals 2020

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) In a surprise move this past June, Moscow published its first-ever “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence.” The content core of…

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Russians in the Far East have been protesting for weeks. What does that say about democracy in Russia?

(Monkey Cage) In Khabarovsk, a Russian city nearly 4,000 miles east of Moscow, thousands of people have been protesting President Vladimir Putin for more than three weeks. The protesters want the Kremlin to…

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Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: The object of my analysis is the Tallinn-based discussion club Impressum, known as a platform for spreading pro-Kremlin interpretations of political matters. These public speeches give a broad…

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Snegovaya: When the economic growth in Russia was high, Putin did not face much resistance when eliminating the regional autonomy

(FT) Vladimir Putin had been reassured that the regional election in September 2018 would be nothing to worry about. Mr Putin’s man would retain the governorship of Khabarovsk Krai, a…

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Don’t Call It a Cold War: Findings From the Russian-American Relations Survey

(The Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations) Russian-American relations seem to be worsening with every year. After an attempted “reset” under U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry…

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The Russian Side of the Murky Story in Belarus

(EDM) The presidential elections in Belarus were expected to be a tightly controlled affair, resulting in a convincing victory, on August 9, for the incumbent, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who has firmly retained…

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Greene: The most likely approach toward Khabarovsk is a strategy of attrition

(RTE) Protesters have poured onto the streets of the Russian city of Khabarovsk for the fourth weekend in a row. Journalists estimated turnout at around 30,000 people yesterday, while the…

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Giuliano and Frye Discuss Khabarovsk Protests with VOA (in Russian)

(VOA) (Harriman Institute) Elise Giuliano (Lecturer in Discipline) and Timothy Frye (Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy) discuss the protests in Khabarovsk on Aleksandr Gerasimov’s webcast, Ono Vam Nado? (Do You Need This?) on the VOA Russian Service.…

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Petrov: Degtyaryov’s party affiliation is irrelevant to most protesters in Khabarovsk, who view him as someone imposed from Moscow

(opb.org) Artyom Mozgov, 20, is among the thousands of people who have been protesting for the past two weeks in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, seven time zones east of Moscow…

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Russia’s Problems Grow Into Big Trouble, but Putin Remains Aloof

Hot off the Press, Colder in Scope: Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Fundamentals 2020

Russians in the Far East have been protesting for weeks. What does that say about democracy in Russia?

Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn

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Don’t Call It a Cold War: Findings From the Russian-American Relations Survey

The Russian Side of the Murky Story in Belarus

Greene: The most likely approach toward Khabarovsk is a strategy of attrition

Giuliano and Frye Discuss Khabarovsk Protests with VOA (in Russian)

Petrov: Degtyaryov’s party affiliation is irrelevant to most protesters in Khabarovsk, who view him as someone imposed from Moscow