Russia Accepts and Emulates China’s Coronavirus Propaganda
(EDM) After a delayed start, Russia is now being hit by the COVID-19 outbreak with devastating force; yet, it has only praise for China’s policy of containing the disease, despite the…
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Ideological or Pragmatic? A Data-Driven Analysis of the Russian Presidential Grant Fund
(Russian Politics) Abstract: Research on Russian civil society focuses largely on the repressive legislative side of state policies, to the virtual exclusion of the rise of domestic funding, be it individual,…
The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The COVID-19 pandemic hit Russia at a precarious moment marked by a global oil war and constitutional reforms intended to secure regime stability beyond 2024. These three…
NATO enlargement: evaluating its consequences in Russia
(International Politics) Abstract: It is often claimed that NATO’s post-Cold War geographic enlargement threatened Russian security interests and caused the downturn in Russia’s relations with the West. This article unpacks and challenges…
Are the ’90s Coming to Haunt Putin?
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Less than two months ago—a world apart—we were remembering Boris Nemtsov, five years after his passing. Nemtsov, who was shot dead in 2015 a few hundred meters…
Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube During the 2016 US Presidential Election
(International Journal of Press/Politics) This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA sought either to…
Petrov: The outbreak has reset the Kremlin’s political agenda | Greene: The risks of Putin looking out of touch are very real
(Gulf News) Russia has reported 2,558 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours [April 13] versus 2,186 mnew cases the previous day. A nationwide vote on April 22 was supposed to…
Rogov: There are two different oppositions to Putin in Russia
(Washington Post) Opinion polls and authoritarian systems don’t go together. However professional or independent the pollster, any results are necessarily skewed as people weigh their responses — especially to questions about…
‘Existential crisis’? Russia’s coronavirus paradox
(CEPA) Commentators were quick to predict that the pandemic would accelerate the decay of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Others expected a crackdown; public fears are often a pretext for power grabs. Examples of…
How Autocracies Build Regulatory States
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In autocratic settings, much of what we know about economic regulation does not explicitly account for the fact that objectives, constraints, and opportunities faced by states, businesses,…