Beyond Putin: Russia’s Generations Y and Z
Of Russia’s 146 million citizens (if we include those in Crimea), 63 million—or 43 percent—are under 34 years of age. Of these, 30 million belong to Generation Y (millennials in…
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Podvig: Russia’s hypersonic weapons don’t fundamentally change much in terms of strategic balance and military capability
(FP) Normally inured to the fire and brimstone of Russian state TV, international audiences perked up their ears last month when a Sunday evening news show singled out a handful of…
Sonin: The average annual growth rate for Russia over 2008-2017 was 1.2 percent
(Moscow Times) On Feb. 28, a Russian court denied bail and house arrest for U.S. citizen Michael Calvey, who was jailed two weeks earlier on alleged fraud charges. For over two decades, Calvey…
Russia’s Strategy in Southeast Asia
To great fanfare, in May 2016, Russia hosted the third ASEAN-Russia Summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Russia’s acceptance as an ASEAN dialog…
Russia Today’s strategy and effectiveness on YouTube
(Post-Soviet Affairs) (Co-authored with Elizabeth Nelson) Abstract: Many countries now operate state-funded international broadcasters, communicating directly with foreign publics to promote a variety of foreign policy goals. RT (formerly known as Russia Today) is…
Russia’s ministry of ambivalence: the failure of civic nation-building in post-Soviet Russia
(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: This article argues that the sources of official and societal ambivalence towards civic nationhood in today’s Russia are found in the institutional instability and personalist dynamics of hybrid…
Five Issues Putin Preferred Not to Talk About
(EDM) The annual presidential address to the Federal Assembly (upper chamber of the Russian parliament) is a big political show in Russia, which tells little about the state of the country…
Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights [NEW BOOK]
(Co-authored by Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu) Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in…
Three Conferences and a New Set of Russian Sanctions
(EDM) Mid-February registered a remarkable sequence of international forums, whose participants debated and sought to counter Russia’s power politics in Europe and the Middle East. First, defense ministers of the North…
Ukraine’s “Type 4” Conflict: Why Is It Important To Study Terminology Before Changing It?
A reaction to Jesse Driscoll’s PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo: “Ukraine’s Civil War: Would Accepting This Terminology Help Resolve the Conflict?” In his February 2019 policy memo, Dr. Jesse Driscoll argues…