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Kurilla: Strong rhetoric won’t affect relationship between Trump and Putin

(WSUW) A conversation with professor at European University at Saint Petersburg, Ivan Kurilla, about the status of American-Russian relations these days, amid the arrest of a well-known Russian politician and…

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Baev: Putin needs the meeting more than Trump

(KNPR) When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin on Friday, the whole world will be looking for clues as to where the fraught U.S.-Russian relationship goes next. After months of speculation…

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Book Review: Putin’s Olympics. The Sochi games and the evolution of twenty-first century Russia

(Nationalities Papers) Given that Russia is due to host the largest and most popular (by a wide margin) global sporting – the FIFA World Cup – next year, now would seem…

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FIFA 2018 Countdown: Rethinking the Sochi Legacy

The FIFA Confederations Cup that wrapped up in Russia on July 2 is Russia’s last rehearsal for its hosting of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. We can already see how…

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Information Wars and Its Victims: Biased Facts, Incomplete Truth [Four Signs of Disinformation]

For some time, analysts, think tankers, and journalists prevailed in the domain of “post-truth” and “alternative facts.” It is only recently that academics plugged into the debate. The World Congress…

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Marten: Diversionary conflict [Crimea] served to distract audiences from troublesome issues at home

(Stratfor) Two momentous events marked the early part of 2014 in Eurasia: The Russian Black Sea resort town of Sochi hosted the Winter Olympics, the first games in Russia since…

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Cooley: The whole aesthetic of Trump goes very well with Central Asia

(McClatchy) Weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was allied with a company in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that planned to build a 47-story luxury tower in the Black…

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Four Downward Turns in US-Russian Relations

(EDM) The trajectory of the manageable but mismanaged confrontation between the United States and Russia has fluctuated since the start of the year. And this past week, it registered at least…

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Special Issue of Pathways to Peace and Security: Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization

Two PONARS Eurasia members contributed to the special issue of Pathways to Peace and Security, "Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization: Perspectives from Russia and the United States," published by Russia’s Institute…

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Russia in Conflict Mediation; Negotiating Security in Eurasia

(PIN Points) In the mid-1980s as the establishment of a Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) program was being planned in Vienna at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),…

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Kurilla: Strong rhetoric won’t affect relationship between Trump and Putin

Baev: Putin needs the meeting more than Trump

Book Review: Putin’s Olympics. The Sochi games and the evolution of twenty-first century Russia

FIFA 2018 Countdown: Rethinking the Sochi Legacy

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Four Downward Turns in US-Russian Relations

Special Issue of Pathways to Peace and Security: Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization

Russia in Conflict Mediation; Negotiating Security in Eurasia