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Kurilla: There would have been no Hiroshima and Nagasaki if not for Boris Pash

(Russia Beyond) U.S. Colonel Boris Pash (1900 – 1995) was a typical 20th-century American ‘badass’ – he hated the communists’ guts, took German cities almost single handedly in WWII and captured…

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Russia’s Syrian Predicament Grows Unmanageable

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Syria has been an ongoing major focus in Russian security policy since its astounding military intervention in September 2015. Yet, now, it is barely present in political…

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Kurilla: The Kremlin line is that peaceful protests always escalate into riots

(The New York Times) MOSCOW—Smarting over decades of American criticism of its human rights record, Russia is now getting some payback. The Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, sanctioned by the United States as a violent…

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Snegovaya: The Kremlin is very averse to anything that has to do with revolutions | Greene: Kremlin propagandists don’t need to spin this

(RFE/RL) The screen depicts the Statue of Liberty backdropped by a cloud-specked sky, its outstretched arm and crowned head superimposed over the body of an American police officer whose knee presses…

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Kremlin Fails to See Anger and Anxiety Rising in Russia

(EDM) The Russian authorities are caught in a familiar dilemma of whether to resume economic activity or contain the coronavirus pandemic and, trying to have it both ways, are blundering the…

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Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a terrorist organization and placed its leaders on its list of…

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Fears of Falling Short versus Anxieties of Decline: Explaining Russia and China’s Approach to Status-Seeking

(The Chinese Journal of International Politics) Abstract: Although recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of status, little attention has been paid to the factors that shape states’ status-seeking behaviour. Consequently, existing theories…

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Kurilla: There would have been no Hiroshima and Nagasaki if not for Boris Pash

Russia’s Syrian Predicament Grows Unmanageable

Kurilla: The Kremlin line is that peaceful protests always escalate into riots

Snegovaya: The Kremlin is very averse to anything that has to do with revolutions | Greene: Kremlin propagandists don’t need to spin this

Kremlin Fails to See Anger and Anxiety Rising in Russia

Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses

Fears of Falling Short versus Anxieties of Decline: Explaining Russia and China’s Approach to Status-Seeking

Russia and Collective Security: Why CSTO Is No Match for Warsaw Pact

The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility: The Cases of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan

Reform and Rebellion in Weak States