A Crisis of U.S.-Russian Arms Control?
(Carnegie Moscow Center) In the run-up to the Munich Security Conference, new details of the dispute between Moscow and Washington about Russia's new missile allegedly breaching the Intermediate Nuclear Forces…
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Zhemukhov, Baev: Threats Surrounding Sochi
(The Financial Times) Nearly every day, Sochi’s tens of thousands of law enforcement officers receive another name with an accompanying photograph. There is 27-year-old Zarema Isayeva; 24-year-old Dzhamilya Mamayeva; 19-year-old…
Davos and Russia’s Regions
(The Moscow Times) Recent events in Ukraine and the differences between its east and west force us to take a new look at the role regions play in the process of political and societal development. In Russia — which is at least…
Russian Federation 2014: Short-Term Prognosis
(Publication) Russia has not been static, monolithic and uniform. Russia’s economy has grown to become the six largest in the world, fuelling a corresponding rise in its ambitions. Russia’s desire…
Strength Without Kindness: Russia’s Persistent Xenophobia and the State
When designing an opinion survey on immigration attitudes in Russia that a reputable Levada Analytical Center carried out in 2005, I included a measure of extreme xenophobia used in Eurobarometer…
Orttung, Zhemukhov: Pride and Corruption Permeate the Games
(The New York Times Magazine) Anatoly Pakhomov was elected mayor of Sochi after the type of ersatz campaign that passes for democracy in Russia. It was 2009, and he had…
Gorenburg: Sochi’s Security Measures for Counterterrorism and Crowd Control
(The Verge) The Sochi Winter Games are already the most expensive Olympics on record, and they're shaping up to be the most watched, as well — not by spectators or…
EU-Russia: Facing Stagnation
(Policy Brief) For the best part of the last two decades, EU-Russia summits have alternated between being upbeat events where new grand integration initiatives were launched – the creation of…
Russian Military Preparations for Central Asian Instability
The most recent issue of the Moscow Defense Brief has an interesting article by Maksim Shepovalenko on "Russian Preparations for Reduced Foreign Military Presence in Afghanstan." It starts with the…
Misplaced and Miscalculated Risk Assessments of Putin’s Games
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The pre-planned introduction of an extra-tough security regime around Sochi last Tuesday (January 7) has brought an escalation of concerns about safety at the 22nd Winter Olympic…