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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Exclusive: Sanctions and Regime Survival

Some debates never die; they just get replayed. After the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in late December 1979, the United States imposed economic sanctions against the USSR. The Russian Federation…

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Free Rein of Special Services Makes Russia Ungovernable

(EDM) It took a week for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to produce a pair of plausible suspects in the shocking murder of Boris Nemtsov on February 28 (see EDM,…

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War of words: the impact of Russian state television on the Russian Internet

(Nationalities Papers) How effective is Russian state television in framing the conflict in Ukraine that began with the Euromaidan protests and what is its impact on Russian Internet users? We carried…

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Will there be a ‘full, rapid, and transparent investigation’ of Boris Nemtsov’s murder? Don’t bet on it.

(The Monkey Cage/WP) After Boris Nemtsov’s brazen assassination a stone’s throw from the Kremlin, Secretary of State John Kerry called on the Russian authorities to “to act expeditiously to investigate and…

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Special Issue: State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia

(Europe-Asia Studies) The wave of protests that shook the Russian capital and scores of Russian cities over the period 2011 to 2013 came as a great shock to the political…

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The Ukrainian Crisis and its Impact on Transforming Russian Nationalism Landscape

(New Book Chapter) The Ukrainian crisis shattered the ideological status quo in Russia, the place of socalled ‘Russian nationalists’ in the public space, and the competition between different groups claiming to…

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Kuchins: Russia has been doing everything possible to hide involvement in the insurgency

(Bloomberg) — As the U.S. State Department’s No. 2 official warned against a military response to the Ukraine crisis, President Barack Obama is facing growing pressure from other top advisers…

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Why Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire

(The New York Times) (Co-authored with Bernard Sucher) The American government tends to see sanctions against Russia as a low-cost policy that will eventually force Vladimir Putin to change course in…

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The question to ask about Boris Nemtsov’s murder is not who but why?

(The Monkey cage/WP) The problem moving forward – for analysts, opposition, patriots, and citizens – is not really explaining who assassinated Boris Nemtsov. Most people already have their own theories…

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