Russian Identity and War Support
Image credit/license Since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many observers have debated how to explain the seemingly widespread support for the war among Russians, which has remained…
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Maria Snegovaya
3 posts
Postdoctoral Fellow, Walsh School of Foreign Service; Fellow, Illiberalism Studies Program
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Georgetown University; George Washington University
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Democratic Backsliding, Populist Actors (in East Central Europe), Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy, Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Russia’s Great Transformational Failure
(Tablet Magazine) Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera. The collapse of the Soviet system led to a period…
Russia’s Crumbling Power Vertical: Decreasing Disposable Income Drives Discontentment
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Accumulating evidence points at prospects of growing destabilization at the regional level in Russia. In 2019, five consecutive years of economic stagnation ignited a wave of…