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Ограничения аргумента: Дискуссия об источниках «восстания» на Донбассе

В аналитической записке для PONARS Eurasia «Внутренние факторы восстания на Донбассе», и в ответе на критические замечания Андреаса Умланда, Сергей Куделя стремится убедить читателей, что «восстание на Донбассе является, прежде всего,…

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Book Review: Andrew Wilson’s “Ukraine Crisis”

(Open Democracy) As Leo Tolstoy famously quipped, had Napoleon’s cold on the day of the battle of Borodino really affected the course of war then the valet who failed to…

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A Brief Look at Russian Economic Nostalgia and the “Equal Opportunity” vs. “Income Equality” Debate

Over the past half year, Russia-watchers have been parsing the country’s draw toward its Soviet past. Could an underlying part of this nostalgia involve the benefits of socialist economics? The…

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Donbas Separatism: Domestic, External and Domestic-External Factors

(Guest post by Taras Kuzio) Scholars have been keenly probing the sources of the Donbas insurgency. Serhiy Kudelia’s memo on the topic provides an important part of the domestic story…

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Russia and Ukraine: Not the Military Balance You Think

Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies has just published a new book on the military aspects of the Ukraine crisis. Here's a preview of my book review, published…

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Trouble in Tbilisi

November 6, 2014

(Foreign Policy) Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili's decision to sack the country's minister of defense, Irakli Alasania, has rattled the fragile Georgian Dream political coalition of six parties that has…

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Getting to the Bottom on the Sources of the Donbas Insurgency

The response to my PONARS memo from Yuriy Matsiyevsky challenges my account on four points: 1) explaining the timing of the insurgency; 2) explaining the spatial variation of the insurgency;…

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Expected and Unexpected Revelations of the New Ukrainian Parliament

Last week’s parliamentary elections in Ukraine had two major goals, one public and one private. Publicly, the elections sought to renew the legislature from the remnants of the Yanukovych era,…

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The Limits of Kudelia’s Argument: On the Sources of the Donbas “Insurgency”

In his recent PONARS Eurasia policy memo entitled “Domestic Sources of the Donbas Insurgency” and subsequent response to Andreas Umland’s critical remarks, Serhiy Kudelia seeks to convince the readers that “the Donbas insurrection [is] primarily…

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Кто кого: Украинский кризис, санкции Запада и попытки сдерживания России

Одним из наиболее актуальных эпизодов 2014 года, без сомнения, является оценка роли Российской Федерации в украинском кризисе, в частности, как мотивации российского руководства, так и вытекающей возможности в дальнейшем влиять…

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After Elections, What’s Next for Ukraine?

(Moscow Times) Will the Ukrainian parliamentary elections held last Sunday help the country reduce the pervasive corruption that blocks sustainable economic growth and makes Ukraine vulnerable to pressure from its predatory neighbor? We will probably know…

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Parliamentary Elections: A New Ukrainian Chance for Change

Ukraine’s voting outcome might be interpreted as conditional confidence in the post-Euromaidan government. “Conditional” because the winning political actors will face challenges of unity when it comes to reform and…

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Ограничения аргумента: Дискуссия об источниках «восстания» на Донбассе

Book Review: Andrew Wilson’s “Ukraine Crisis”

A Brief Look at Russian Economic Nostalgia and the “Equal Opportunity” vs. “Income Equality” Debate

Donbas Separatism: Domestic, External and Domestic-External Factors

Russia and Ukraine: Not the Military Balance You Think

Trouble in Tbilisi

Getting to the Bottom on the Sources of the Donbas Insurgency

Expected and Unexpected Revelations of the New Ukrainian Parliament

The Limits of Kudelia’s Argument: On the Sources of the Donbas “Insurgency”

Кто кого: Украинский кризис, санкции Запада и попытки сдерживания России

After Elections, What’s Next for Ukraine?

Parliamentary Elections: A New Ukrainian Chance for Change