Articles, analyses, and policy memos by PONARS Eurasia members related to the pandemic.
MARCH
3/20/2020: Russia’s Chances Against Coronavirus: Sizing up the country’s healthcare capacity and social readiness for a pandemic by Judyth Twigg, Harley Balzer, and Robert Heimer (Meduza podcast)
3/22/2020: State Intervention Necessary to Overcome Covid-19 Threats by Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (The Financial Express)
3/24/2020: How the Opportunist in the Kremlin Took Advantage of Coronavirus by Regina Smyth (The Globe Post)
3/27/2020: Post-Soviet State Responses to COVID-19: Making or Breaking Authoritarianism? by Marlene Laruelle and Madeline McCann (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
APRIL
4/01/2020: Masked Diplomacy: Xi and Putin Seek Advantage and Cover from the Pandemic by Elizabeth Wishnick (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
4/06/2020: Coronavirus in Ukraine by Judyth Twigg (Think Global Health)
4/08/2020: Ukraine lacks leadership as coronavirus crisis escalates by Volodymyr Dubovyk (Atlantic Council)
4/08/2020: Russian Roulette Podcast: Of COVID19 Measures—or lack thereof—in Russia featuring Judyth Twigg (CSIS)
4/09/2020: Putin’s Response to the Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and the Pandemic by Maria Snegovaya (CEPA)
4/12/2020: Majlis Podcast: The Coronavirus As A Means To Strengthen Control (RFE/RL, featuring Erica Marat)
4/16/2020: Are the ’90s Coming to Haunt Putin? by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)
4/20/2020: The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses by Regina Smyth, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Timothy Model, and Aiden Klein (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
4/20/2020: Russia Accepts and Emulates China’s Coronavirus Propaganda by Pavel Baev (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
4/24/2020: (Re)Categorizing Post-Soviet COVID-19 Containment Strategies by Olga Gulina (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)
4/28/2020: Learning from Asia: How to Handle Coronavirus Economic Recessions by Vladimir Popov (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)
4/29/2020: Russia’s Health Care System and the Covid-19 Pandemic by Judyth Twigg (Russian Analytical Digest)
MAY
5/4/2020: Video Surveillance and COVID-19 in Eurasia by Erica Marat (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
5/5/2020: Putin’s Non-Decisions Paralyze Crisis-Stricken Russia by Pavel Baev (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
5/6/2020: Russia and Digital Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19 by J. Paul Goode (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
5/6/2020: After the Deluge: Comparative Politics of the Coronavirus Pandemic by Şener Aktürk (TRT World)
5/6/2020: During the pandemic, Russia and the U.S. have these 3 things in common by Caress Schenk (Monkey Cage)
5/14/2020: Covid-19 in Russia (and not only) by Samuel Greene (Wilson Center podcast)
5/18/2020: Ukraine Rides High While COVID-19 Lays Neighbors Low: But for How Long? by Ivan Gomza (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
JUNE
6/17/2020: Healthcare Reform, Demographic Trends, and COVID-19 In Russia: A Conversation With Professor Judyth Twigg (Reforum)
6/19/2020: From a State of Exception to Policy Legitimation: The Politics of COVID-19 in Russia, Belarus, and Georgia by Giorgi Beridze, Alla Leukavets, and Andrey Makarychev (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)
6/25/2020: Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics” by Mikhail Alexseev (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
JULY
7/7/2020: Gone with the virus. How the pandemic makes Russian strategy evanescent by Andrey Makarychev (New Eastern Europe)
7/20/2020: Organizational Resilience: Russian Civil Society in the Times of COVID-19 by Andrei Semenov and Vsevolod Bederson (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
7/23/2020: Governing the Pandemic in Finland and Estonia by Andrey Makarychev and Tatiana Romashko (PONARS Eurasia Commentary)
7/30/2020: Divide and Co-opt: Government-Opposition Relations in Azerbaijan in the Wake of COVID-19 by Farid Guliyev (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
AUGUST
8/14/2020: Russia Approved A COVID Vaccine. Will It Be Available In America? with Judyth Twigg (FiveThirtyEight)
8/17/2020: The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19 with Andrey Makarychev and Elizabeth Wishnick (Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
8/28/2020: State Responses to COVID-19 in Eurasia: What Have We Learned? with Mariya Omelicheva, Lawrence Markowitz, Yulia Nikitina, Robert Orttung, and Ekaterina Schulmann (PONARS Eurasia Fridays)
SEPTEMBER
9/18/2020: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Regime Legitimacy in Eurasia? with Pauline Jones, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Henry E. Hale, Olga Onuch, Volodymyr Kulyk, and Gwendolyn Sasse (PONARS Eurasia Fridays)
OCTOBER
10/07/2020: The Coronavirus Crisis Undercuts Russia’s Geopolitical Ambitions by Pavel Baev (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
10/16/2020: Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield by Marlene Laruelle, Mikhail Alexseev, Cynthia Buckley, Ralph S. Clem, J. Paul Goode, Ivan Gomza, Henry E. Hale, Erik Herron, Andrey Makarychev, Madeline McCann, Mariya Omelicheva, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Regina Smyth, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Mikhail Troitskiy, Joshua A. Tucker, Judyth Twigg, and Elizabeth Wishnick (Problems of Post-Communism)
10/23/2020: Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe: The COVID-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland by Andrey Makarychev and Tatiana Romashko (Chinese Political Science Review)
November
11/25/2021: Linkages between Experiencing COVID-19 and Levels of Political Support in Russia by Margarita Zavadskaya and Boris Sokolov (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
December
12/7/2020: The Pandemic in the Arctic: Common Challenges from Juneau to Murmansk by Robert Orttung (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
January
1/29/2021: COVID-19 Implications for Azerbaijan: Momentum Immobilized by a Perfect Storm by Anar Valiyev (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
February
2/2/2021: “From Russia With Love”: The Kremlin’s COVID-19 Charm Offensive by Alexandra Yatsyk (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
2/16/2021: The Russian Parliament and the Pandemic: A State of Emergency, Post-constitutional Changes, Retaliatory Laws by Ekaterina Koldunova (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
2/22/2021: COVID-19 in Russia: What Russians Expected, What They Got, and What They Think About It by Sarah Wilson Sokhey (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
March
3/1/2021: Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis by Mariya Omelicheva and Lawrence Markowitz (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
April
4/1/2021: This Time is Different (Again): The Political Consequences of the Economic Crisis in Russia by Andrei Semenov (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo)
E-book: COVID-19 in Eurasia: PONARS Eurasia Policy Perspectives (April 2021)