Russian Youth Extremism: An Analysis
(Jordan Russia Center) In 2006, Russia was reportedly home to 50,000 far-right skinheads, or half the world’s population. Nearly 13 years on, Russia’s wave of neo-Nazi violence has subsided (per known…
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Kalmyks Protest Donbas Separatist Who Was Appointed Mayor of Republican Capital
(EDM) Street protests continue against the leader of the Buddhist province of Kalmykia and look set to escalate, with a large demonstration planned for October 27. The protests concern the appointment…
Russian-Backed Luhansk Authorities Enlist Help of Local Cossacks
(EDM) The authorities of the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) are apparently seeking to extend their control over society in this Russian-occupied and Moscow-backed eastern Ukrainian region. As one notable sign…
Ukrainian Security Services Arrest Pro-Russia Cossack Cell in Odesa
(EDM) On May 28, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) arrested three Ukrainian citizens who staged an explosion in the lobby of a resort hotel in the major Black Sea port…
Ongoing Environmental Protests in Russia Pose Threat to Kremlin in 2019
(EDM) Last year saw a “trash crisis” in Russia, with multiple protests connected to corruption in the garbage collection industry (see EDM, March 12, 2018). The crisis is partially a consequence of…
Whose Cossacks Are They Anyway? A Movement Torn by the Ukraine-Russia Divide
(PONARS Policy Memo) Most headlines about the conflict in Eastern Ukraine do not normally mention either the role of the Cossacks or the use of the Cossack image, but both are,…