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The Life and Legacy of Boris Nemtsov

(Demokratizatsiya/Event Video) During his life, Boris Nemtsov played a vital role leading reform efforts in Nizhny Novgorod. He rose to a prominent position in Yeltsin's government and was the favorite to replace the…

The Limits to Russian Soft Power in Georgia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Russia’s use of soft power in Georgia has become an obligatory talking point in discussion of the two countries’ relations. Western media is full of predictions…

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A New European Disunity

(Problems of Post-Communism) See: A New European Disunity: EU–Russia Ruptures and the Crisis in the Common Neighborhood (Andrey Makarychev) and Suturing the Neighborhood? Russia and the EU in Conflictual Intersubjectivity (Aliaksei Kazharski & Andrey Makarychev). Other…

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From Sochi–2014 to FIFA–2018: a fading sovereignty?

(Sport in Society) (Co-author: Alexandra Yatsyk) In this article, we uncover the dynamics and the evolution of Russian discourses of sovereignty before and after the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games using some elements…

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New Policy Memo: Reassembling Lands or Reconnecting People? Geopolitics and Biopower in Russia’s Neighborhood Policy

Post-Soviet states tend to view Russian policies toward them through a geopolitical lens, interpreting the approaches as that of a regional power competing for the control of nearby lands. This,…

Reassembling Lands or Reconnecting People? Geopolitics and Biopower in Russia’s Neighborhood Policy

Post-Soviet states tend to view Russian policies toward them through a geopolitical lens, interpreting the approaches as that of a regional power competing for the control of nearby lands. This,…

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Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations

(Palgrave Studies in International Relations) The Ukraine crisis in 2014 took many observers by surprise. Its magnitude and implications necessitate a better understanding of the drivers of Russia's actions in…

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Self-Inflicted Marginalization? Illiberal Russia in Search for its own Reality

(CIDOB) The ongoing crisis in Russia-Ukraine relations is more often than not discussed in regional security context, with some tendency of either diminishing or even denying its profound reverberations for…

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The South Caucasus: Between Integration and Fragmentation

(EPC/SAM) Lying at the crossroads between East and West and South and North, the South Caucasus is situated at the intersection of Eurasia's major energy and transport corridors. An important geostrategic…

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Russian Worlds: When Culture (and a Major Russian Celebrity) Trumps Politics

This is the first in a series of posts on the concept of "Russkiy Mir."[1] I begin by looking at the International Festival of Literature that was held recently in Tartu,…

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The Limits to Russian Soft Power in Georgia

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Russian Worlds: When Culture (and a Major Russian Celebrity) Trumps Politics