Petrov: Putin Believes Any Protests are Organized by “Somebody Other” than the Protesters

(Christian Science Monitor) Moscow police carted away about 70 people outside a Moscow district court Monday, charging most of them with holding an unauthorized gathering. It was a fairly regular occurrence…

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Zhemukhov: Russian Government Still Undecided about Post-Sochi Concept

(The New York Times) Now comes the hard part. After Sunday night’s closing ceremony, Sochi must confront life after the Olympics and the impact of a building boom that, for…

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Moshes: One Option for the Kremlin is to Work with the West on Ukraine

(Global Post) Moscow — Russian officials likely are watching with consternation as the country they’re hoping to pull further into their orbit teeters on the brink of uncontrollable chaos. The…

From Moscow to Vilnius: Armenia’s New Attempt to Reconcile the Irreconcilable

February 20, 2014

Emerging from a September 2013 meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan expressed his readiness to join the Russian-led Customs Union (CU) and disassociated Armenia…

Russia’s Policy on International Interventions: Principle or Realpolitik?

Since the collapse of the USSR, Russia’s position on international interventions and sovereignty has appeared ambiguous or incoherent to many observers. With the glaring exception of the Georgia war, Russia…

The EU in Eastern Europe: Has Normative Power Become Geopolitical?

(By Andrey Makarychev and Andrey Devyatkov) The November 2013 Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Vilnius played a key role in the transformation of the concept of the EU as a…

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How to Understand Russia’s Arctic Strategy

During most of the late 20th century, the Arctic region was primarily a zone of military interests, used by both NATO and Soviet strategic forces as bases for their nuclear…

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Orttung, Makarychev: Russian (and Chinese) Mega-Projects Bolster Triumphalist Narratives

(Al Jazeera) Much of the international discussion of Sochi the Olympics has focused on the seeming irrationality of the enterprise, as manifested by the choice of location, the cost of…

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Ukraine’s False Choice

(FP) There are no winners in the geopolitical tug of war between Russia and the West. The recent headlines about the alleged leaked recording of U.S. officials discussing the crisis…

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Security Threats at Winter Olympics

(C-SPAN; Video) Panelists talked about the security threats to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The group, which included PONARS Eurasia member Andrew Kuchins, as well as Thomas de Waal,…

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Petrov: Putin Believes Any Protests are Organized by “Somebody Other” than the Protesters

Zhemukhov: Russian Government Still Undecided about Post-Sochi Concept

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