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Kurilla: By resuscitating Cold War rhetoric, they sort of resuscitate the importance of Russia

(USN) MOSCOW – During a segment of a recent Sunday news show here, the mood was, expectedly, full of outrage and indignation. The cause? The International Olympic Committee's announcement just…

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Olympic Fiasco Illuminates Putin’s Weakness

(EDM) The decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the Russian delegation from the 2018 Winter Olympics was predictable—and the indignant response in Moscow was ready. Hesitant voices of…

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Orttung: In the last couple of years, Russia has really cracked down on the Internet

(Herald Leader) A semi-retired Russian three-star general oversaw the cross-border movements of a rocket launcher used to bring down a passenger jet in 2014 over eastern Ukraine, killing all aboard, an…

The Case for Ambiguous Agreements in U.S.-Russian Relations

“I am not risking my head when I promise to teach my donkey to read—in twenty years one of us will surely die—either myself, or the emir, or the donkey.” – Hodja…

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Troitskiy: If opposition is to be mounted against Russia’s status quo, it would certainly come from the younger generation

(abc.net.au | podcast) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will run for re-election next March – Russian political analyst Mikhail Troitsky says Vladimir Putin has indicated on more than one occasion that…

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Hale: authoritarian regimes deploy every available resource to dominate elections

(WP) It’s a foregone conclusion that Vladimir Putin will win Russia’s March 2018 presidential elections, so why is the Kremlin fretting about turnout? And how is Russia’s big business supposed to…

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Whenever America is in crisis, Russia is its whipping boy

(WP) ST. PETERSBURG — Russians are watching the unfolding scandal of their country’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. election with a mixture of amusement, pride, indignation and regret. For a historian…

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Deciphering Russia and the West: Kimberly Marten in Profile

(Harriman Magazine) Russia is in the headlines now more than ever, thanks to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump, allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections,…

Indigenously Funded Russian Civil Society

(PONARS Policy Memo) Most reports on Russian civil society focus on government efforts to restrict Western funding to Russian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with legislation on foreign agents and undesirable organizations. The…

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Declaring Victory in Syria, Putin Stands to Lose the Elusive Peace

(EDM) The meeting of three presidents—Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani—in Sochi last Wednesday (November 22), was supposed to mark a triumph for Russian foreign policy.…

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Kurilla: By resuscitating Cold War rhetoric, they sort of resuscitate the importance of Russia

Olympic Fiasco Illuminates Putin’s Weakness

Orttung: In the last couple of years, Russia has really cracked down on the Internet

The Case for Ambiguous Agreements in U.S.-Russian Relations

Troitskiy: If opposition is to be mounted against Russia’s status quo, it would certainly come from the younger generation

Hale: authoritarian regimes deploy every available resource to dominate elections

Whenever America is in crisis, Russia is its whipping boy

Deciphering Russia and the West: Kimberly Marten in Profile

Indigenously Funded Russian Civil Society

Declaring Victory in Syria, Putin Stands to Lose the Elusive Peace