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Tips from the Experts: Bridging the Scholarship-Policy Divide

How can scholars make significant contributions to policy making? Reflecting on a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to strengthen regional studies training at U.S. universities, Indiana University’s Russian…

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Why are Russians protesting? Eight PONARS Eurasia experts explain

(Monkey Cage blog) Joshua Tucker asked eight PONARS Eurasia experts on Russian politics: Do the protests that took place across 99 cities in Russia on Sunday signify that meaningful change in Russian politics is likely?…

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Smyth: With the email issue, you have two U.S. government agencies saying that Russia was responsible for the hacks

(IDS) In what many commentators are calling one of the most heated elections in the nation’s history, one issue remains cold: Russia. United States relations with Russia are reminiscent of…

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Smyth: “The state of Russian Studies is ascendant…” [AUDIO]

(NPR/WBUR) "Russian studies used to be a much more robust field in the United States compared to today. Interest took a sharp decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union…

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Smyth: With Carnegie’s generous award we can enrich the training of the next generation of scholars focused on Russia

(IU Bloomington) Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute $1 million to create a Russian Studies Workshop and bolster Russian studies at IU. With the grant,…

Russia’s 2016-2018 Election Cycle: Popular Engagement and Protest Potential

(PONARS Policy Memo) In the wake of the For Fair Elections (FFE) protest movement in Russia in 2011-2012, the Kremlin initiated a new strategy of state-society relations that was aimed at…

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Two Guys Discussing Russia: Does the Russian Opposition Have a Political Future?

(Video Series) (Special Guest!) Russian politics is increasingly unpredictable. In order to help clarify the issues, Robert Orttung and Sufian Zhemukhov, on their talk show “Two Guys Discussing Russia over Pastries,” invited Regina Smyth,…

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Special Issue: State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

(Europe-Asia Studies) The wave of protests that shook the Russian capital and scores of Russian cities over the period 2011 to 2013 came as a great shock to the political…

Beyond United Russia: The Kremlin’s Efforts to Engineer Ruling Majorities

Since Russia’s 2011-2012 post-election protests, the Kremlin has introduced wide-ranging changes to the legal-administrative structures governing elections. This authoritarian version of electoral institutional engineering is designed to sustain a core…

Вор или спаситель? Персонализм как яблоко раздора между сторонниками режима и протестным движением

«Россия без Путина!» – этот боевой клич протестующих против властей направлен против основы российского электорального авторитаризма: персоналистскую связь Владимира Путина со своими избирателями. Используя речевки «Путин – вор!» и «Путин,…

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Tips from the Experts: Bridging the Scholarship-Policy Divide

Why are Russians protesting? Eight PONARS Eurasia experts explain

Smyth: With the email issue, you have two U.S. government agencies saying that Russia was responsible for the hacks

Smyth: “The state of Russian Studies is ascendant…” [AUDIO]

Smyth: With Carnegie’s generous award we can enrich the training of the next generation of scholars focused on Russia

Russia’s 2016-2018 Election Cycle: Popular Engagement and Protest Potential

Two Guys Discussing Russia: Does the Russian Opposition Have a Political Future?

Special Issue: State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

Beyond United Russia: The Kremlin’s Efforts to Engineer Ruling Majorities

Вор или спаситель? Персонализм как яблоко раздора между сторонниками режима и протестным движением