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Scared of Putin’s Shadow: In Sanctioning Dugin, Washington Got the Wrong Man

(Foreign Affairs) On March 11, 2015, the U.S. Treasury Department placed a new round of sanctions on 14 figures that Washington considers responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. Until now, sanctions had targeted…

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The “Narva Paradox” and a Reality Check

(UT Blog) (Co-authored with Stefano Braghiroli) Estonia – The annexation of Crimea and the military insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces under the “Russian world” slogan triggered political and academic debates centred…

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Consequences of a New Cold War

(IISS) (Co-authored with Jeremy Shapiro) The Ukraine crisis poses vexing policy challenges for Washington. President Barack Obama has sought to strike a balance between the imperative of responding to Russian…

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Two Summits and a Military Exercise

(EDM) The postponed Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan summit took place last Friday (March 20) in Astana, but the program was cut so short that the only point for staging the event appeared to be…

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The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can It Cope with Both?

(FIIA briefing paper) The military conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine is the main factor determining also the internal political situation in the country. On the one hand, as…

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Exclusive: Sanctions and Regime Survival

Some debates never die; they just get replayed. After the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in late December 1979, the United States imposed economic sanctions against the USSR. The Russian Federation…

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The Ukrainian Crisis and its Impact on Transforming Russian Nationalism Landscape

(New Book Chapter) The Ukrainian crisis shattered the ideological status quo in Russia, the place of socalled ‘Russian nationalists’ in the public space, and the competition between different groups claiming to…

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Kuchins: Russia has been doing everything possible to hide involvement in the insurgency

(Bloomberg) — As the U.S. State Department’s No. 2 official warned against a military response to the Ukraine crisis, President Barack Obama is facing growing pressure from other top advisers…

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Why Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire

(The New York Times) (Co-authored with Bernard Sucher) The American government tends to see sanctions against Russia as a low-cost policy that will eventually force Vladimir Putin to change course in…

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Murder That Revealed Truth

(EDM) The photograph that hit millions of computer and smartphone screens late Friday (February 27) night, Moscow time, has instantly become a clear-focused image of what Russia has become amidst the…

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Scared of Putin’s Shadow: In Sanctioning Dugin, Washington Got the Wrong Man

The “Narva Paradox” and a Reality Check

Consequences of a New Cold War

Two Summits and a Military Exercise

The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can It Cope with Both?

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Why Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire

Murder That Revealed Truth