Imagined Futures
(Moscow-On-Thames) It’s been a while since a major Putin policy address has been anything other than boring. Not today. Today, Putin proposed a radical reshaping of Russia’s political system. Kind…
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Social media and Russian territorial irredentism: some facts and a conjecture
(Post-Soviet Affairs) (Authored with Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld) Abstract: After Kremlin policymakers decided to incorporate the territory of Crimea into Russia, updates on public attitudes in Russian-speaking communities elsewhere in Ukraine…
Russia’s cabinet resigns and it’s all part of Putin’s plan
(The Conversation) Editor’s note: Russia’s prime minister, Dmitry A. Medvedev, and cabinet resigned on Jan. 15. Russian politics are often not what they seem, especially to those in the West.…
Ponarin: The current generation of young Russians are the happiest since 1991
(FT) Generation Putin: how young Russians view the only leader they’ve ever known “The current generation of young Russians are the happiest since 1991,” says Eduard Ponarin, professor of sociology…
‘I don’t know what will happen with Putin’s daughters’ Political scientist Vladimir Gelman explains how Russia’s political regime consolidated and the country became ‘badly governed’
(Meduza) There is little debate among experts that the Russian state, despite the preservation of its democratic Constitution, has been authoritarian in essence for several years already. A decade ago,…
Russia’s Response to Sanctions: Reciprocal, Asymmetrical, or Orthogonal?
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Western sanctions on Russia have failed demonstratively to secure Moscow’s formal compliance with stated objectives. Both sides seem worlds apart in their expectations and approaches; expert…
Protest in Electoral Autocracies: A New Dataset
(Post-Soviet Affairs) (Co-authored with Katerina Tertytchnaya) A growing literature explores the causes and consequences of dramatic political protests in autocracies. Yet, we know comparatively little about other forms of protests…
Character Assassination as Strategic Communication in EU-Russia Relations
(Springer) (Co-authored by Sergei Samoilenko) This chapter examines character assassination as a set of strategies used by conflicting parties in international affairs. Specifically, it views character assassination as strategic communication embedded in…
The Implications of Redrawing the Chechnya-Ingushetia Border
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The drawing of administrative borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia caused protests in Ingushetia that began in October 2018, continued until March 2019, and culminated in the resignation…
Two Grandiose Summits and an Unlawful Verdict in Russia Publication
(EDM) After the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) contentious jubilee summit in London last week (December 3–4) (see EDM, December 2), the fulcrum of European politics has shifted to two different summits,…