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Diaspora Politics on Abkhazia: Involved in Half Capacity

(De Facto States blog) President Aslan Bzhania had an important meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on November 12, 2020. With the ongoing global pandemic and subsequent collapse of the…

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Two Words That Shook Putin’s Regime

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last Wednesday (March 17) has been extraordinarily loud—and the bilateral consequences could…

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The Dzerzhinsky Discord: Who Will Fill the Vacancy in Lubyanka Square?

For about a decade, negative, anti-Western, and anti-liberal ideological trends have been on the rise in Russia—corresponding to the Kremlin’s increasing reliance on such ideological and symbolic instruments to consolidate…

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How the Battle Over Collective Memory Will Define Russia’s Place in Europe

(Moscow Times) As the proverb goes, the past tells us above all about the present. The current memory wars between Russia, on the one hand, and Central European countries, led…

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Electoral Manipulation and Regime Support: Survey Evidence from Russia

Does electoral fraud stabilize authoritarian rule or undermine it? The answer to this question rests in part on how voters evaluate regime candidates who engage in fraud. Using a survey…

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New Book: Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West

In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of “fascism” has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin’s regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism,…

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Arnold: There’s nothing definite—that they’re going to be punished—but there’s always the chance

(Vice) If the assault allegation against New York Rangers star Artemi Panarin was aimed at kicking up a public storm against the politically outspoken 29-year-old winger on the home front—where…

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Petrov: Russia would denounce the EU sanctions as a Western attack on its “glory”

(EU Observer) Four Russians are about to join an EU list of the world’s worst human rights abusers, but who are they? EU states’ ambassadors, on Wednesday (24 February), signed off…

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New Book by Kathryn Stoner Examines the “Paradox” of Russian Power

(Stanford FSI) In her new book, “Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order,” Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Deputy Director and Senior Fellow Kathryn Stoner argues…

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West’s Renewed Focus on Solidarity and Coordination Perturbs Kremlin

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The disastrous visit to Moscow of the European Union’s top diplomat, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, on February 4–6, followed in quick succession…

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Diaspora Politics on Abkhazia: Involved in Half Capacity

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New Book by Kathryn Stoner Examines the “Paradox” of Russian Power

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