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Szakonyi: If I were Putin, I would not be worried so much about these protests

(Vice News) Sunday was a tough day for underground anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny — and not just because he was thrown to the ground by a half-dozen Russian cops on…

History and Memory in Russia During the 100-Year Anniversary of the Great Revolution

(PONARS Policy Memo) All last year, the Russian state kept largely silent about the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In its attempt to control historical narratives, and to prevent…

Grassroots Capacity Building: Why Municipal Politics in Moscow are Important Signposts of Russia’s Democratic Development

(PONARS Policy Memo) Scholarly attention to Russia’s civil society is often driven by headlines. Cycles of protest and repression energize debate over whether Russian civil society is dormant, qualitatively different in…

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Russian Air Force procurement plans

(RMR) The last month or so has seen a number of good overviews in the Russian press of recent procurement and future plans of the Russian Air Force. The Russian Air…

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The price of the Russian elections: Easy to achieve, Putin’s victory will have huge costs

(FIIA) Voters will give Vladimir Putin the mandate to continue great power politics. This does not augur well for any deconfliction between Russia and the West. The outcome of the…

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Revisionist Russia Is the Most Nuclearized Power in the World

(EDM) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared at last week’s (January 18) special meeting of the United Nations Security Council that Russia had no intention of joining the Treaty on the…

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Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism

(Columbia U. Press) (Edited by Marlene Laruelle and Peter Rollberg) This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus…

Explaining Russia’s Schizophrenic Policy toward the United States

(PONARS Policy Memo) The weaknesses and inconsistencies of Russia’s recent actions toward the United States need to be explained. President Vladimir Putin is often seen as a foreign policy wizard,…

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Kurilla: There is an impression that the Russian elite continues to believe the Trump administration does not want full confrontation with Russia

(Channel News Asia) MOSCOW: Donald Trump said during his election campaign he wanted to improve relations between the US and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But a year on from his inauguration, ties…

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Russian Military Intervention in Kazakhstan

I’ve written a short report for an American Enterprise Institute project on possible Russian interventions in neighboring states. I was asked to discuss possible reasons for and trajectories of a…

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Szakonyi: If I were Putin, I would not be worried so much about these protests

History and Memory in Russia During the 100-Year Anniversary of the Great Revolution

Grassroots Capacity Building: Why Municipal Politics in Moscow are Important Signposts of Russia’s Democratic Development

Russian Air Force procurement plans

The price of the Russian elections: Easy to achieve, Putin’s victory will have huge costs

Revisionist Russia Is the Most Nuclearized Power in the World

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Explaining Russia’s Schizophrenic Policy toward the United States

Kurilla: There is an impression that the Russian elite continues to believe the Trump administration does not want full confrontation with Russia

Russian Military Intervention in Kazakhstan