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Rogov: the whole thing had a “made-for-TV” air about it; Petrov: dealing with four governments in some ways plays into the Kremlin’s hands

(NYTimes) The American man being held on espionage charges in Moscow also has British, Canadian and Irish citizenship, officials said on Friday, a status that could complicate the situation for Russia…

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Strategic Analysis December 2018: The Kerch Strait skirmish: a Law of the Sea perspective

(Hybrid Co) “The November 25 naval skirmish between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Kerch Strait highlighted the fraught legal status of the strait and the Azov Sea, a status that…

Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Yevgeny Prigozhin, the corrupt military contractor from St. Petersburg who funds the informal armed organization known as the Wagner Group, expanded his lucrative foreign adventures into…

Circumstances Have Changed Since 1991, but Russia’s Core Foreign Policy Goals Have Not

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the Ukraine crisis, the dominant Western perspective on Russian foreign policy has come to emphasize its increasingly confrontational, even revanchist, nature. Experts have focused on…

Are Eurasian Conflicts Really All That Eurasian? Lessons for Scholars and Policymakers

(PONARS Policy Memo) Civil and territorial conflicts in Eurasia are often treated as distinct from their counterparts in other parts of the world. The Tajik civil war in the 1990s, the…

To Hack Abroad and Ban at Home: The Kremlin’s Cyber Activism

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia has been playing a multi-fold game in the digital arena. It engages in international cyber attacks, spreads select narratives strategically overseas using the open media rules of…

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Grassroots Modernization

(Point & Counterpoint) (By Maria Lipman & Maria Volkenstein) The rise of diversity and individualism in Russian society is undisputed. However, these new trends are observed, first and foremost, in the private…

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As Russia’s economy falters, what are Putin’s options?

(IISS) Having signed on for another six years of Putin, are Russians feeling a bit of buyer’s remorse? His options for tackling the country’s stagnation are limited, and none of them…

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Isolation and Reconquista: Russia’s Toolkit as a Constrained Great Power

(Russia Matters) In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s famous Munich speech took stock of what Russia considered the failure of the post-Cold War détente with the West, specifically NATO’s eastward expansion…

What Putin’s Exit Could Mean for Chechnya: The Pitfalls of Kadyrov’s State-within-a-State

(PONARS Policy Memo) After the Soviet Union broke apart, the Russian government fought two highly destructive wars against insurgents in Chechnya—in 1994-1996 and in 1999-2009. Both wars caused immense bloodshed, dislocation,…

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Rogov: the whole thing had a “made-for-TV” air about it; Petrov: dealing with four governments in some ways plays into the Kremlin’s hands

Strategic Analysis December 2018: The Kerch Strait skirmish: a Law of the Sea perspective

Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military

Circumstances Have Changed Since 1991, but Russia’s Core Foreign Policy Goals Have Not

Are Eurasian Conflicts Really All That Eurasian? Lessons for Scholars and Policymakers

To Hack Abroad and Ban at Home: The Kremlin’s Cyber Activism

Grassroots Modernization

As Russia’s economy falters, what are Putin’s options?

Isolation and Reconquista: Russia’s Toolkit as a Constrained Great Power

What Putin’s Exit Could Mean for Chechnya: The Pitfalls of Kadyrov’s State-within-a-State