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The 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan: Another Russian Attempt to Regain Diplomatic Status

Image credit/license On October 22-24, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the latest BRICS summit in Kazan. Notably, it was the first gathering of the heads of state and government…

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Despite Everything: How and Why Russia Remains an Actor in the Horn of Africa

Image credit/license The interest of major state actors in the Horn of Africa (HoA) and the Red Sea is evident in their basing strategies in the area. Djibouti is the…

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Resilience Strained: How Civil-Military Relations Are Shaping Russia’s War Effort

Image credit/license The shocks to Russian civil-military relations amid the Russia-Ukraine war started in the first days of the invasion in February-March 2022 and have kept rolling with the partial…

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The Kremlin’s Dilemma: Effectiveness versus Loyalty in the Case of Prigozhin’s Wagner PMC

Image credit/license Autocracies constantly face the challenge of balancing loyalty and effectiveness, and Russia and its military are no exception. The demise of the Wagner Group and Yevgeny Prigozhin following…

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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine Pose Growing, Unaddressed Threat to Western Security

Image credit/license The 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reshaped the security landscape of Europe, exposing Moscow’s renewed imperial ambitions and its subversive campaigns against Western countries. Yet, amid this upheaval,…

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Where’s Wagner Now? One Year after the Mutiny

Image credit/license Following the June 2023 mutiny of Russia’s Wagner Group and the August death of its primary contractor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a suspicious plane crash, it seemed that the…

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Anchored in Freedom: Ukrainians’ Will to Fight Back in Harder Times

Image credit/license After regaining nearly half of the territories Russia occupied in its full-scale invasion of February 24, 2022, Ukraine fell on harder times. By May 2023, having incurred horrendous…

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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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Shifting Political Thresholds among the Russian Public

Image credit/license Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, observers of Russian politics have anticipated a tipping point in Russian mass political behavior. To maintain its military…

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Local Responses to Russian Migration in Georgia and Kazakhstan

Image credit/license Since both countries border Russia and have visa-free entry for Russian citizens, Georgia and Kazakhstan have received many of the Russians fleeing the impact of the full-scale invasion…

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