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Russia’s Response to Sanctions: Reciprocal, Asymmetrical, or Orthogonal?

  • January 2, 2020
  • Adam Stulberg
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Western sanctions on Russia have failed demonstratively to secure Moscow’s formal compliance with stated objectives. Both sides seem worlds apart in their expectations and approaches; expert…
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Crimea Come What May: Do Economic Sanctions Backfire Politically?

  • November 4, 2019
  • Mikhail Alexseev
(Journal of Peace Research) (Co-authored by Henry Hale) Abstract: Do international economic sanctions backfire politically, resulting in increased rather than decreased domestic support for targeted state leaders? Backfire arguments are common,…
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Banking on Politics: How Russia’s Banking Sector Clean-Up Affects Regime Stability

  • May 15, 2019
  • David Szakonyi
(Point & Counterpoint) Through all the gloom of Russia’s stagnating economy, one bright spot has been the prudent macroeconomic policy coming from the Central Bank. Under the leadership of Elvira Nabiullina,…
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Economic Sanctions and Public Opinion: Survey Experiments From Russia

  • May 1, 2019
  • Timothy Frye
(Comparative Political Studies) Abstract: Do economic sanctions turn the public against the target government or cause it to rally around the flag? How do sanctions affect attitudes toward the sanctioner?…
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Buyer Beware: Evaluating Russian Exports Under Sanctions and Stagnation

  • March 29, 2019
  • David Szakonyi
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The use of sanctions to push Russia to change its foreign policy behavior has come under heated debate. Proponents argue that the sanctions policy pursued by the…

Diminishing Returns: How Effective Are Sanctions Against Russia?

  • January 23, 2019
  • PONARS Eurasia
(By Stacy Closson) In November 2018, the Trump administration announced another set of sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for supporting Russia’s economic integration of Crimea and for committing human rights…
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What Is To Be Done?

  • August 22, 2018
  • Samuel Greene
(Moscow-on-Thames) Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s irrepressible spokesman, said today that Russia would like to know what it could do to get sanctions reduced. This, of course, set tongues wagging, both in Russia…

The Political Economy of Russian Information & Communication Technologies

  • June 14, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(PONARS Policy Memo) In 2017, the term “Russian hackers” became a brand similar to that of Stolichnaya, Aeroflot, and Lada. Russia’s information and communication technologies (ICT) sector became described as having…
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Omelicheva: Protests add to bevy of issues facing Putin ahead of election

  • February 1, 2018
  • Mariya Omelicheva
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Giuliano: Many Russian citizens don’t realize they can’t buy certain goods because of Russian sanctions on trade with Europe

  • January 30, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(Newsweek) Congress and millions across the country have called for punishing Russia over its meddling and interference in the 2016 election that saw President Donald Trump rise to the nation’s highest political…
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