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PONARS Eurasia Scholars on Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia
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PONARS Eurasia Scholars on Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia

  • February 1, 2021
  • Joshua Tucker
(Washington Post) On Jan. 17, Alexei Navalny, perhaps the best-known domestic critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, returned to Russia in dramatic fashion after recovering in Germany from what he claims was deliberate poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, allegedly by agents of the…
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Tucker: What the Russians did in 2016 was show a toolkit, where you could use deceptive actors online working in coordination with each other

  • October 28, 2020
  • PONARS Eurasia
(France 24) Russia’s coordinated effort to nudge Americans toward voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election caught social media companies flat-footed and remains a stain on the reputation of…
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Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube During the 2016 US Presidential Election

  • April 16, 2020
  • Joshua Tucker
(International Journal of Press/Politics) This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA sought either to…
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Special Double Issue: The Foreign Policy Attitudes of Russian Elites, 1993–2016 [Lussier, Gel’man, Tucker, Hale]

  • November 18, 2019
  • PONARS Eurasia
(Post-Soviet Affairs) Although a vibrant literature on mass public opinion in Russia emerged in the wake of communism’s collapse in the USSR, the systematic investigation of elite attitudes using survey…
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Communist Legacies and Left-Authoritarianism

  • November 4, 2019
  • Grigore Pop-Eleches
(Comparative Political Studies) (Co-authored by Joshua Tucker) Abstract: Communist regimes were avowedly leftist authoritarian regimes, a relative rarity among autocracies. The growing literature on regime legacies would lead us to…
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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communication

  • January 15, 2019
  • Richard Bonneau, Sergey Sanovich, Denis Stukal and Joshua Tucker
(PONARS Policy Memo) The question of how regimes respond to online opposition has become a central topic of politics in the digital age. In previous work, we have identified three…
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Ukrainians are getting less divided by language, not more. Here’s the research.

  • June 9, 2018
  • Joshua Tucker
(WP) The journal Post-Soviet Affairs recently published a special issue on politics and identity in Ukraine. The question of Russian vs. Ukrainian identity has been central to the study of Ukrainian politics for decades…
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Special Issue: Wither Russia? Twenty-Five Years After the Collapse of Communism | Stoner, Hale, Herrara, Gerber, Tucker, and more

  • April 11, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(Journal of Comparative Politics) Introduction: 2017 marked one hundred years since the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1917, Russia embarked on one of history’s most significant social, political, and economic transformations. The establishment…
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Revisiting Research on Russian Media Workshop – Abstracts Day 2 (April 29)

  • May 4, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
PONARS Eurasia held a two-day workshop on April 28-29 on the theme of “Rethinking Russian Media Strategy and Influence.” Below are the panels and abstracts from April 29. Click here…
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Why are Russians protesting? Eight PONARS Eurasia experts explain

  • March 31, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
(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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