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Russia’s Gordian Knot: Radical Nationalism, the North Caucasus, and Migration

With the legislative and presidential campaign of 2011-2012, Russia is entering a phase of uncertainty, and debates that have hitherto been reserved for the establishment have become ever more visible.…

Medvedev’s Oil: The Burdens of Great Wealth and the Potential for Coping with Them

Observers have long recognized that Russia’s oil wealth handed Vladimir Putin’s regime numerous political and economic advantages, along with a range of potential troubles. President Dmitry Medvedev inherits the same…

The Geopolitics of Resurgent Russia: How Medvedev’s Russia Sees the World

Under President Dmitri Medvedev, Russia has begun the complicated process of redefining its role in international affairs. While this process is grounded in the achievements of the pre-Medvedev era, Russia…

A Curse or a Blessing?: What to Expect from a Typical Developing Resource-Abundant State

It might seem obvious that a country endowed with larger quantities of natural resources has an advantage and, other conditions being similar, will grow faster than resource-poor countries. This is…

Does Russia Want the West to Succeed in Afghanistan?

As in the United States, Russia’s policy on Afghanistan has recently undergone an evolution of sorts, prompting speculation about Moscow’s “true” motivations for engagement. Two prominent assessments of Russia’s agenda…

How We Assess Civil Society Developments: The Russia Example

In assessing a country’s commitment to democracy, civil society developments are a key component. An encouraged, or at least unfettered, civil society usually provides evidence of democratic governance. An overtly…

Caught in Between: Citizenship, Identity, and Young Ethnic Russians in Estonia

Days after U.S. President Barack Obama’s Moscow summit and just before Vice President Joe Biden’s departure for Ukraine, nearly two dozen former leaders and foreign policy experts from Eastern Europe…

Civil Society in the New Authoritarianism

Russian prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin’s efforts to strengthen the Russian state are well-known. His consistent advocacy of a strong society is less so. In this respect, Putin’s…

Memory Wars in the Post-Soviet Space

Over the past year, the memory wars of the post-Soviet space have intensified. Nation-building in the region, like elsewhere, has long involved the creation of local historical narratives and the…

Convergence in Post-Soviet Political Systems?: A Comparative Analysis of Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections

Next year will mark twenty years since the first more or less free and fair elections were held in the USSR in March 1989. Since then, numerous elections have been…

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