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Russia Ready to Give the Falling Ukraine a Push—and Might Follow Suit

The long telephone conversation between United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the earliest hours of last Saturday was remarkable in its surrealistic detachment from the…

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Zhemukhov, Baev: Threats Surrounding Sochi

(The Financial Times) Nearly every day, Sochi’s tens of thousands of law enforcement officers receive another name with an accompanying photograph. There is 27-year-old Zarema Isayeva; 24-year-old Dzhamilya Mamayeva; 19-year-old…

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Misplaced and Miscalculated Risk Assessments of Putin’s Games

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The pre-planned introduction of an extra-tough security regime around Sochi last Tuesday (January 7) has brought an escalation of concerns about safety at the 22nd Winter Olympic…

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Baev: Heightened Security and Blanket Surveillance in Sochi

(Time) “For both groups, the security conditions in Sochi will come as something of a shock,” [Pavel] Baev says, like trying to maintain the Olympic spirit inside a “besieged fortress.”…

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Putin’s Ukrainian Triumph Is a Major Setback for Russia

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The Ukrainian government’s shocking decision to put on hold the process of finalizing the Association Agreement with the European Union, announced last Thursday (November 21), a week…

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Policy Memo: How Russia’s Energy “Weapon” Turned into an Oil Pillow and Gas Rattle

The transformation of the global energy market has been so swift that strategic thinkers have had difficulty internalizing the consequences of a massive expansion of supply. In the United States,…

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Moscow’s “Vegetable Revolution”

(Eurasia Daily Monitor)—The dramatic resolution of the fiscal-political crisis in the United States was barely noticed in Moscow last week (October 16–17) as two dissimilar events of a local character…

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Putin in Denial About Economic Stagnation, and in a Rage About Arctic Sovereignty

(EDM) State budgets are a difficult topic of debate in all countries. And Russia, which used to pass them fairly easily, is now facing some unpleasant realities related to the…

How Russia’s Energy “Weapon” Turned into an Oil Pillow and Gas Rattle

The transformation of the global energy market has been so swift that strategic thinkers have had difficulty internalizing the consequences of a massive expansion of supply. In the United States,…

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Online Symposium (DAG-3QD): The Elusive Quest for Political Stability in Central Asia and Beyond

We are pleased to draw your attention to the online quarterly DAG-3QD Peace and Justice Symposium: The Elusive Quest for Political Stability in Central Asia and Beyond, with Alexander Cooley,…

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Russia Ready to Give the Falling Ukraine a Push—and Might Follow Suit

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Misplaced and Miscalculated Risk Assessments of Putin’s Games

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Putin in Denial About Economic Stagnation, and in a Rage About Arctic Sovereignty

How Russia’s Energy “Weapon” Turned into an Oil Pillow and Gas Rattle

Online Symposium (DAG-3QD): The Elusive Quest for Political Stability in Central Asia and Beyond