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Moscow Mayoral Election: Results from Exit Polls Look Like Numbers that Can Provoke Protest in National Elections

I wanted to make a quick initial observation about today’s Moscow mayoral election. The exit polls are showing the opposition leader Alexei Navalny doing better than expected at close to…

Минасян: O намерении Армении вступить в Таможенный союз

September 5, 2013

Саргсян должен был идти или по пути Дубчека, или Ярузельского – (Новости-Армения) Президент Армении Серж Саргсян стоял перед выбором: продолжить рискованную внешнюю политику без ущерба для политической репутации, или пойти…

How Many Legal Regimes Are There in Russia?

(by Olga Gulina) For years, Russian experts wrote about regional differentiations in federal regulations. Indeed, Russia is far from being a unified or homogenous state, rather it is an increasingly…

Immigrant Lockdown Camps: Another Symbol of Today’s Russia?

(By Olga Gulina) Reality is likely to teach immigrants coming to Russia a hard lesson. The state's migration policy is veiled in seemingly liberal slogans although its application is explicitly…

Russia’s Global Engagement

This collection of policy memos is based on the proceedings of a May 2013 workshop of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), held…

Ambiguous Relations: Russia’s Post-Soviet Neighborhood

This collection of policy memos is based on the proceedings of a May 2013 workshop of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), held…

Putin’s Blurred Arctic Vision

The Arctic touches deeper feelings in the Russian political mind than just greed for resources or fear of military threat. Beneath typically grandiloquent rhetoric, there is a deep sense of belonging to the vast cold and clean spaces…

Rakhmon Haggles with Putin

On August 1, Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon paid a quick visit to Moscow to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Commentators agree the visit is essentially linked to the…

Sochi Olympics Security Measures

President Vladimir Putin has staked his reputation on the 2014 Winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in Sochi, a city on the Black Sea coast, near the Abkhazia border. As…

The Soviet-Era Strategy That Explains What Russia Is Doing With Snowden

(The Atlantic) (Article by Olga Khazan) (Cory Welt is quoted) — When William Averell Harriman, who served as Secretary of Commerce under President Truman, mentioned "Soviet imperialism" in a speech…

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