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Petrov: Moscow’s instructions on how to calculate deaths gave a lot of freedom to regional healthcare systems to underreport

(Moscow Times) The death toll from the coronavirus across many Russian regions could be many times higher than official statistics show, analysis of new data by The Moscow Times suggests.…

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Belarus without Lukashenko: How it became a realistic scenario

(FIIA Comment) Alexander Lukashenko’s “victory” in the election cannot bridge the gap between the president and the modern part of Belarusian society. Turbulent times may lie ahead for Belarus. This will…

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Russia’s Problems Grow Into Big Trouble, but Putin Remains Aloof

(EDM) The Russian Security Council held a virtual session last Friday (August 7), and President Vladimir Putin opened with the proposal to discuss the “international situation in general”; if his subordinates…

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Hot off the Press, Colder in Scope: Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Fundamentals 2020

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) In a surprise move this past June, Moscow published its first-ever “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence.” The content core of…

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Russians in the Far East have been protesting for weeks. What does that say about democracy in Russia?

(Monkey Cage) In Khabarovsk, a Russian city nearly 4,000 miles east of Moscow, thousands of people have been protesting President Vladimir Putin for more than three weeks. The protesters want the Kremlin to…

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Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: The object of my analysis is the Tallinn-based discussion club Impressum, known as a platform for spreading pro-Kremlin interpretations of political matters. These public speeches give a broad…

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Snegovaya: When the economic growth in Russia was high, Putin did not face much resistance when eliminating the regional autonomy

(FT) Vladimir Putin had been reassured that the regional election in September 2018 would be nothing to worry about. Mr Putin’s man would retain the governorship of Khabarovsk Krai, a…

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Petrov: Moscow’s instructions on how to calculate deaths gave a lot of freedom to regional healthcare systems to underreport

Belarus without Lukashenko: How it became a realistic scenario

Russia’s Problems Grow Into Big Trouble, but Putin Remains Aloof

Hot off the Press, Colder in Scope: Russia’s Nuclear Deterrence Fundamentals 2020

Russians in the Far East have been protesting for weeks. What does that say about democracy in Russia?

Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn

Snegovaya: When the economic growth in Russia was high, Putin did not face much resistance when eliminating the regional autonomy

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Greene: The most likely approach toward Khabarovsk is a strategy of attrition