How Islam Will Change Russia
(Jamestown) Russia is becoming increasingly a Muslim country. Out of a total population of over 146 million (including two million in annexed Crimea), it counts about 15 million people of Muslim…
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Central Asia In-Depth: Marlene Laruelle talks to VOA
(VOA) Professor Marlene Laruelle, director of the Central Asia Program at the George Washington University, talks to Navbahor Imamova, Voice of America's Uzbek Service. How well do the United States…
Misinterpreting Nationalism: Why Russkii is Not a Sign of Ethnonationalism
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Many observers of Russian political life have noted a shift in President Vladimir Putin’s language toward greater “ethnonationalism.” While this trend has been present for a…
Russia Today, or How to Re-Mythologize Greatpowerness
(Reset DOC) The aim of the two-day workshop held in Berlin at the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Auswärtige Politik on the 22nd and 23rd June 2015 on The Evolution of Russian…
Laruelle: Russia proactive in major projects, Artic is no different
(Bulletin Leader) The U.S. hasn’t built a new heavy-class icebreaker in 40 years, and as oil drilling and vessel traffic increases off Alaska’s northern coast, the nation hasn’t developed a…
Laruelle: New state documentary film on Kazakh history is impressive
(The Astana Times) Within the celebration of the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate, the Kazakh Research Institute of Culture with the support of the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the United…
New Policy Memo: Eurasia, Eurasianism, Eurasian Union: Terminological Gaps and Overlaps
Ever since Vladimir Putin launched the Eurasian Union project in 2011, scholars and the media have tended to analyze it as the victory of the Eurasianist ideology. This memo investigates…
Eurasia, Eurasianism, Eurasian Union: Terminological Gaps and Overlaps
Ever since Vladimir Putin launched the Eurasian Union project in 2011, scholars and the media have tended to analyze it as the victory of the Eurasianist ideology. This memo investigates…
Is Kazakhstan’s ‘dialogue of civilizations’ all about image, or doing some real good?
(Monkey Cage/WP) On June 10 and 11, Kazakhstan hosted the Fifth Congress of World Religions. Doing so was an important moment for the country, allowing it to attract international attention and display its…
The “Russian World”: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination
(CGI paper) The concept of the “Russian World” (russkii mir) has a long history rooted in the 1990s, but it was propelled under the media spotlight in 2014, when Russian…