Don’t Prop up Putin by Giving Him an Enemy
(Huffington Post) Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to provoke a military confrontation with the West. His military jets have repeatedly buzzed NATO facilities, coming close to causing a crash with…
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A Brief Look at Russian Economic Nostalgia and the “Equal Opportunity” vs. “Income Equality” Debate
Over the past half year, Russia-watchers have been parsing the country’s draw toward its Soviet past. Could an underlying part of this nostalgia involve the benefits of socialist economics? The…
Is Putin intentionally provoking the West?
(PBS NewsHour) Following a growing list of aggressive moves made by Russia against the West, what is Putin's plan? Kimberly Marten, a Russian scholar and professor at Barnard College and…
Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia (New Book)
Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013,…
Who Is at Fault in Ukraine?
Foreign Affairs recently published a number of articles examining the extent to which the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is the West's fault. Those articles sparked a heated debate, so the editors decided to ask a…
Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia (New Book)
(Oxford University Press) This book investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike…
Policy Memo: The Troubled Rebirth of Political Opposition in Russia
In the 2000s, most experts considered the role of political opposition in Russia as peripheral at best. But with the protest wave of 2011-12, opposition actors and movements reentered the…
Russia and Ukraine: Not the Military Balance You Think
Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies has just published a new book on the military aspects of the Ukraine crisis. Here's a preview of my book review, published…
Kurilla: Russia needs to do more to acknowledge the gulag
(The New Yorker) An officer in the Red Army. A journalist. The director of Moscow Café Number Three. On Wednesday, a soft litany sounded from a little green median at…
Policy Memo: How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State
Immigration is often discussed in the framework of political economy and security studies. When discussed in the context of national identity, immigration is invariably depicted as a “challenge” or an…