Scant Foreign Policy Choices for a Troubled and Divided Russia
(EDM) For months, and particularly during the end of June and start of July, Russian politics was centered on ensuring the desired result in the vote on the set of amendments…
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Nationalizing Russian (War) Memory Since 2014
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) After two decades of (official) American neglect of Russian/Soviet sufferings during World War II, President John Kennedy, in his 1963 address at American University, recollected that…
Petrov: No one was really counting results seriously and it was just up to the Kremlin on how to report this as a triumphant victory
(Newsweek) An election expert in Russia has cried foul over the vote on constitutional amendments which may cement President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power until 2036. The ballot which ended…
What’s Vladimir Putin’s end game? Other post-Soviet autocrats give a few clues.
(Monkey Cage) Russia’s constitution, at least before this week’s referendum, would have required Vladimir Putin to step down from the Russian presidency in 2024, at the end of his second consecutive…
Russia’s referendum could keep Vladimir Putin in power until 2036. What do high-ranking Russians think?
(Monkey Cage) Russians vote today on constitutional amendments that would allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in office until the year 2036, thanks to changes to Russia’s presidential term limits. Putin recently justified these reforms as necessary…
From Ostentatious Parade to Fraudulent Vote, Putin Tries to Cement His Crumbling Rule
(EDM) As the tanks rolled off Moscow’s Red Square last Wednesday (June 24), the Russian propaganda machine instantly switched from glorifying extra-modern militarism to trumpeting the next pivotal political event—the public…
Love with Nuances: Kazakhstani Views on Russia
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Kazakhstan is known as one of the countries most loyal to Russia—even more so, in many respects, than Belarus. Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) indulges Moscow less often than…
Petrov: The scale of the reform was absolutely surprising. It will make Putin’s position comfortable enough to not be opposed
(Euronews) Russia is set to hold a July 1 referendum that could see President Vladimir Putin stay in power until 2036. The vote will be over whether to accept constitution changes that…
Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe, policy patterns in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR/LNR) indicate that these “separatist entities,” which Moscow engineered in 2014…
Russia’s Constitutional Amendments Keep Several Futures Open for Putin
(Russia Matters) On July 1, Russian citizens will be voting to approve amendments to the 1993 constitution, proposed by Vladimir Putin in January, planned for a vote in April and postponed to…