Russia 66 - PONARS Eurasia

Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics

(Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society) This issue’s special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national identity. It gives the floor…

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Biopolitical Art and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Putin’s Russia

(Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) This article addresses the public appeal of political actionism in today’s Russia through analysis of the political art of Pyotr Pavlensky. The research uses…

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Stress Test for the Russian Administrative Machine

(Point & Counterpoint) This year’s regional election results were somewhat of a sensation. For the first time since 2007, the United Russia (UR) party, the Kremlin’s legislative arm, failed to gain a…

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Russia Cannot Count on Political Easing After US Elections

(EDM) As the furious campaigning in the United States’ 2018 midterm elections enters its final stretch, Russia can probably find some relief in the fact that it has not really come…

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Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields [NEW BOOK]

This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a…

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Putin the Geographer

(Riddle) At the grand reopening of the Russian Geographical Society in 2009, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin explicitly linked the greatness of Russia as a state and as a culture to the size of…

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NATO’s Trident Juncture Exercise as a Deterrence Signal to Russia

(Russia Matters) This week, NATO forces are engaged in the largest military exercise the alliance has organized since the end of the Cold War and the first major Western exercise in…

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Understanding Russia The Challenges of Transformation [NEW BOOK]

Co-authored by Marlene Laruelle and Jean Radvanyi. This timely book provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of the geographical, historical, political, cultural, and geostrategic factors that drive Russia today. Russia…

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Russia Reconsiders Consequences of INF Treaty Breakdown

(EDM) News about the United States’ decision to withdraw from the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty produced the predictable explosion of propaganda commentary in Moscow. But by the end of…

Do Russians Trust their Police? Reform Must Start from the Top

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Despite some recent, seemingly half-hearted efforts, the police remain one of Russia’s most unreformed bureaucracies and Russians’ trust in police has been low throughout the post-Soviet…

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Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics

Biopolitical Art and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Putin’s Russia

Stress Test for the Russian Administrative Machine

Russia Cannot Count on Political Easing After US Elections

Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields [NEW BOOK]

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Russia Reconsiders Consequences of INF Treaty Breakdown

Do Russians Trust their Police? Reform Must Start from the Top