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Members’ commentary on Vladimir Putin’s “plans to be president for life”

Pavel Baev in “Putin Nullifies All Further Speculation About a Leadership Transition in Russia” (Eurasia Daily Monitor) “Seeking to preserve a modicum of uncertainty, Putin has yet to formally announce…

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I might have been wrong about Putin

(Moscow-on-Thames) I’ll say it: Sometimes I get it wrong. Or not quite right. Which is almost the same thing. In case you’ve missed it, today’s news is that Valentina Terehskova, a…

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BookAuthority’s 25 “Best New International Relations Books to Read” includes Greene and Robertson’s: Putin v. the People

BookAuthority’s “25 Best New International Relations Books to Read” includes Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson’s book, Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia. “A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary…

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Imagined Futures

(Moscow-On-Thames) It’s been a while since a major Putin policy address has been anything other than boring. Not today. Today, Putin proposed a radical reshaping of Russia’s political system. Kind…

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The Unrealism of Realists

(Moscow-On-Thames) For the latest another addition to my (very long) list of reasons why the community of international relations scholars who call themselves realists should be banned from using the term,…

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United Liberal Democratic Russia?

(Moscow-on-Thames blog) By most accounts, United Russia is finished. I suppose that’s not surprising, given that it was never really expected to last even this long. Cobbled together in 2001 through the…

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Putin’s power depends on his popularity. That makes him vulnerable.

(Washington Post) (Co-authored by Samuel Greene and Graeme Robertson) Russian President Vladimir Putin often seems like a tyrannical Svengali. “Putin’s power as Russia’s leader is based in fear, mystery, and propaganda,” wrote the…

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Greene: Obviously, the Russian opposition is increasingly frustrated, they’re not able to get the constitutional rights guaranteed to them

(Democracy Now) AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined now by Samuel Greene, director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London. His book, co-authored with Graeme Robertson, is just out. It’s titled Putin v. the People:…

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Homo Post-Sovieticus: Reconstructing Citizenship in Russia

(Social Research) Abstract: It Seems odd to speak of transition in Russia. The problem is not just with the term itself, loaded as it is with normative expectations that Russia and…

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New Russians – Putin’s passport politics & Zelensky

(Moscow-on-Thames) It’s always hard to tell, but I don’t think that Vladimir Putin is planning to ramp up Russia’s war with Ukraine. At least, not today. Three levels of background are…

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Greene

Members’ commentary on Vladimir Putin’s “plans to be president for life”

I might have been wrong about Putin

BookAuthority’s 25 “Best New International Relations Books to Read” includes Greene and Robertson’s: Putin v. the People

Imagined Futures

The Unrealism of Realists

United Liberal Democratic Russia?

Putin’s power depends on his popularity. That makes him vulnerable.

Greene: Obviously, the Russian opposition is increasingly frustrated, they’re not able to get the constitutional rights guaranteed to them

Homo Post-Sovieticus: Reconstructing Citizenship in Russia

New Russians – Putin’s passport politics & Zelensky