Russia’s Conflicts on Libya
Earlier this month, the Russian Government surprised many observers by going along with UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorized international enforcement of a no-fly zone over Libya. Russia…
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The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in post-Communist Russia (book event)
PONARS Eurasia member Graeme Robertson presented his book, “The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in post-Communist Russia” (Cambridge University Press, December 2010), at a recent…
A More Proactive U.S. Approach to the Georgia Conflicts
New Publication & Event Recap Cory Welt, Associate Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School, and Samuel Charap, Associate Director for…
Are Oil Prices Linked to Reform in Russia?
PONARS Eurasia members took a closer look at the periodically-floated theory that oil barrel prices correlate with reform measures in Russia over time. Their comments were sparked by a…
Manas Revisited
The situation around the fueling contract for the Manas Air Transit Center continues to involve the highest levels of government in both the United States and Kyrgyzstan. A new…
Quick Comment — Unrest in Russia
Among the various actors involved with the recent Moscow demonstrations (soccer fans, right-wing groups, the Kremlin, Russian power structures, ethnic minorities), who is controlling whom? Or is this just…
How to Get a Second Term in 2012: Russian Edition
How to Get a Second Term in 2012: Russian Edition (Originally published by Joshua Tucker on The Monkey Cage) I'm just back from the newly renamed Association for Slavic,…
Radical Islam in Tatarstan?
Originally published in the Atlantic Sentinel — Even if youngsters in Tatarstan are becoming Islamic, the authorities in this Russian republic have little reason to fear a surge in religious extremism.…
Quick Comment — NATO
This week's NATO Lisbon Summit is set to launch “NATO 3.0.” The follow-on NATO-Russia Summit heralds “NATO-Russia 3.0,” the latest effort to reinvigorate security cooperation after the stagnation of…
Nemtsov in the House
“In order to modernize, change the Putin system.” -Boris Nemtsov Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Nizhny Novgorod Governor Boris Nemtsov presented his prospects for democracy in Russia at…