Russia 216 - PONARS Eurasia

Imperial Designs? Citizenship and Russia’s Policies in the Former Soviet Union

The goal of Boris Yeltsin and many of Russia’s liberal democratic reformers was not the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the end of Soviet power. Russia would become the…

The Soviet Military Experience in Afghanistan: A Precedent of Dubious Relevance

The Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s had been largely forgotten until last month, but it is now back in the news. The attacks on New York and Washington,…

How Russians Think about Human Rights: Recent Survey Data

In 2001, human rights norms appear to be more widespread in Europe than they were 26 years ago at the dawn of the Helsinki process and more widely shared globally…

Policization versus Democratization: 20 Months of Putin’s ‘Federal’ Reform

“A society cannot be called civil if more than half of State servants wear a military uniform,” said Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov at the recent Civic Forum. He explained that…

From Afghanistan To Ingushetia

Recently, I have been receiving many calls from journalists who want me to discuss what lessons, if any, the United States can learn from the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. It…

Uryupinsk: Civil Activism without NGOs The Communist Party as a Civil Society Substitute

From many viewpoints Uryupinsk is the “capital city of Russia’s provinces.” Its name is so widely used in anecdotes about Russian “country-bumpkins” that many Russians believe that it is the…

Putin’s Tightrope: Maintaining Support in the Face of Domestic and International Policy Demands

Watching President Vladimir Putin field the questions of high school students in Texas, that early assessments of Putin’s chances for a long political life and autonomous political action were extremely…

Toward a U.S. Policy on Chechnya

Co-author: Scott Lindsay U.S. policy on Chechnya must bridge three objectives: cooperating with Russia on counterterrorism, stopping abuses in the conduct of the war in Chechnya, and finding a political…

U.S. Assistance to Russian NGOs: Securing Global Governance from Below

This memorandum argues that President George W. Bush’s administration should complement its diplomatic rapprochement with Russia with continued, even enhanced, support for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Russian Third Sector.…

How Russians Think about Chechnya

Human rights activists have documented mass graves, disappearances and torture, as well as the indiscriminate use of force by Russian federal forces against civilians in the current war in Chechnya.…

Contacts

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Knowledge Hub

RECOMMENDED

The Impacts of Host- and Home-Country Political Environments on Russian Activists Abroad

Can Russians Learn to Recognize Propaganda? Understanding of Media Bias Amid the Ukraine War

The 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan: Another Russian Attempt to Regain Diplomatic Status

Despite Everything: How and Why Russia Remains an Actor in the Horn of Africa

Resilience Strained: How Civil-Military Relations Are Shaping Russia’s War Effort

PONARS Eurasia Podcast

Russia