Russia’s Not Ready for Coronavirus
(CFR/Think Global Health) ussia is surrounded by COVID-19. As of March 6, at least nine of its 16 neighboring countries have reported cases, and it shares a 4,300-km land border with…
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Darden: Many of Ukraine’s current regional cleavages can be traced to the way that it was administered during the Russian Imperial period
(The National Interest) The impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives have demonstrated a near-unanimous consensus among Washington experts and politicians regarding Ukraine policy, best expressed in the closing remarks…
Boris Nemtsov Towers Over Russian Politics, Five Years After Assassination
(EDM) The Kremlin did not utter even one word to mark the fifth anniversary of the high-profile murder that happened right under the walls of the seat of power in Russia.…
Gelman: Preserving the political status quo and Putin’s authority is seen in the constitutional reform
(IMR) In an interview with IMR, political scientist Vladimir Gelman, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg and the University of Helsinki, discusses the origins of Russia’s bad governance,…
Russia’s 2020 | Interview with Dmitry Gorenburg
(Blog Talk Radio) As Russia’s navy starts to transition away from the last of her legacy ships, to her approaching endgame in Syria, join us for the full hour to investigate…
Moscow Downplays the Mixed Warnings From Munich
(EDM) The proceedings of the annual Munich Security Conference always attract keen attention in Moscow, and last weekend (February 14–16) was no exception. The discussions at this high-level forum are indeed…
Lucan Way: While Putin has consistently crushed democracy at home, he seems happy to support competitive elections abroad
(War on the Rocks) In January, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that China had developed “a 21st century surveillance state with unprecedented abilities to censor speech and infringe upon basic human rights.…
How the world could have been different
(Riddle) Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been traversing its own, often difficult, path towards independent development. Over the past thirty years, Russian society and the country’s elites…
Putin’s Power Games | Vladimir Gel’man, Robert Orttung, Regina Smyth, and more
(Russian Analytical Digest) The topic of this issue is ‘Putin‘s Power Games.’ In it, eight authors from different institutions (Jan Matti Dollbaum, Maria Domańska, Vladimir Gel’man, Andrei Kolesnikov, Robert Orttung, Michael…
Taking Russian Assertiveness Seriously: Letting the Data Speak
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Great power assertiveness is back, with Russia once again playing a leading role. This memo introduces some new data sources—in the form of uniquely rich automated event…