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COVID-19 “Humanitarianism”: The Geopolitics of Russia’s Coronavirus Assistance

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On April 1, 2021, an Antonov AN-124 Russian aircraft landed in New York City’s JFK airport with cargo of personal protective gear and medical equipment. The…

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Three Decades of Post-Soviet Institution-Building: Slow Start, Expansion, Stagnation

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As this year draws to a close, Russia and most of the former Soviet states will mark three decades since the USSR was dissolved and a…

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The Arctic as a Test for a “Stable and Predictable” Russia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Two events of major import for Russia’s foreign policymaking occurred in quick sequence in the middle of this pandemically perturbed year of 2021. On May 20,…

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Russia’s Approach to Afghanistan Following the Taliban Takeover

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The key words to describe Russia’s immediate reaction to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 are pragmatic, relatively calm, and restrained. While the Kremlin…

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Revealing schemes: The politics of conspiracy in Russia and the post-Soviet region

(LSE Blogs) What motivates governments and other political actors to promote conspiracy theories? And what impact do these theories have on society? Drawing on a new book covering Russia and…

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The Epoch of Regional Powers: Why Russia Lost and Turkey Won in Nagorno-Karabakh

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) For the first time ever, an external actor and a NATO member—Turkey—became engaged in military hostilities in the former Soviet space. The Second Karabakh War in…

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Self-Selection into the Public Sector When Corruption is Widespread: The Paradoxical Case of Contemporary Russia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Among policymakers and scholars, there is a near consensus that corruption—defined as the use of public office or resources for private gain—imposes numerous harms on societies,…

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Understanding Putinism | PONARS Eurasia Online Academy

Authored by Brian Taylor, professor of political science at Syracuse University and author of The Code of Putinism (2018), Understanding Putinism explains the style and system of President Vladimir Putin’s…

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Last Man Standing: What the Latest Dispute Over Tatarstan’s Presidency Tells Us About the Enduring Ethnic Factor in Russian Politics

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In 2010, thirteen of Russia’s ethnic republics had their own presidencies. Today, the Republic of Tatarstan is the only region to retain the institution, despite a…

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Did the Internet Bring Down the Soviet Union?

(Transitions) Tim Berners Lee, on 6 August 1991, put up the first world wide website on a computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Two weeks later, Soviet hardliners…

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Three Decades of Post-Soviet Institution-Building: Slow Start, Expansion, Stagnation

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