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Baev: Air drops of paratroopers near the North Pole hardly makes the right impression on potential investors

(Vice News) Today Russia is wrapping up a massive military exercise in the Arctic. The five-day excursion involved some 80,000 troops, 220 aircraft, 41 ships, and 15 submarines. While the scale and…

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Special Issue: Patriotism from Below in Russia

(Europe-Asia Studies) Introduction: The accession to power of Vladimir Putin in 2000 was followed by a policy of national revival that crystallised under the banner of patriotism. Several government-sponsored programmes of ‘patriotic…

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How Russia Today is Using YouTube

(The Monkey Cage/WP) (By Robert Orttung, Elizabeth Nelson and Anthony Livshen) When Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube in an office over a California pizza shop in 2005,…

Will the Russian Economy Accelerate in 2015?

Paradoxically, some healthy economic developments occurred in Russia in 2014 owing to its conflict with the West and the decline in oil prices. The “forced” reversal of some mistaken economic…

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New Book! Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World

This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions…

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Biopolitics and Power in Putin’s Russia

(Problems of Post-Communism) Abstract: In Putin’s third term, official rhetoric has become a normative, moralizing discourse promoting Russian traditional values as opposed to the “moral decay” of the West. This “biopolitical…

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The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can It Cope with Both?

(FIIA briefing paper) The military conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine is the main factor determining also the internal political situation in the country. On the one hand, as…

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Putin regime unable to change course

(UCLA II event recap) The Putin regime is fighting for its survival, using the annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine to boost its popularity and retain the…

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New Memo: Torn Between Patriotism and Economic Necessities: Russia’s EU Borderlands & the Food Embargo

In response to Western sanctions, in August 2014 Russia introduced an embargo on meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables from the EU, Norway, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The ban…

Torn Between Patriotism and Economic Necessities: Russia’s EU Borderlands after the Food Embargo

In response to Western sanctions, in August 2014 Russia introduced an embargo on meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables from the EU, Norway, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The ban…

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Baev: Air drops of paratroopers near the North Pole hardly makes the right impression on potential investors

Special Issue: Patriotism from Below in Russia

How Russia Today is Using YouTube

Will the Russian Economy Accelerate in 2015?

New Book! Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World

Biopolitics and Power in Putin’s Russia

The War and Reforms in Ukraine: Can It Cope with Both?

Putin regime unable to change course

New Memo: Torn Between Patriotism and Economic Necessities: Russia’s EU Borderlands & the Food Embargo

Torn Between Patriotism and Economic Necessities: Russia’s EU Borderlands after the Food Embargo