Baev: The Russian Far East is in the throes of a great depression
(EDM) Moscow’s vaunted “pivot to the East” did not begin when Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency in 2012. Instead, it dates back to late 2006, when he ordered the development…
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US-Ukraine Relations Undergo a Hard Test: Implications
The last few months have been, perhaps, the most tested time of US-Ukraine relations in history. Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskiy have been confronting the release of the transcript…
Russia as a Bogeyman in Poland’s 2019 Domestic Political Wars
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Poland will hold general elections on October 13, 2019. Recent exit polls suggest that the ruling right-wing, conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party will maintain its dominant…
Where else do leaders do what Trump is accused of? Start with Russia.
(Monkey Cage blog) The House of Representatives is investigating President Trump’s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine’s government to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, one of Trump’s potential rivals in the 2020 presidential…
Russian TV has enthusiastically covered the Trump-Ukraine scandal
(Monkey Cage blog) Russian state-controlled television has been extensively covering the news that President Trump allegedly pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, who is leading in…
Herrera: Calling Hunter Biden a private citizen ignores the obvious links to the vice president
(Politifact) President Donald Trump for months has tried to draw attention to the connection between former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter over the younger Biden’s ties to a Ukrainian energy…
Smyth: Smart Vote did not increase turnout in Russia but it influenced the election’s outcome
(The Print) Russian voters are looking beyond President Putin and Putinism for solutions to everyday problems. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, United Russia, eked out a majority in the Moscow municipal…
No Fanfare for Russia’s Reduced-Scale Strategic Exercises
(EDM) Russia’s annual major autumnal exercises are usually accompanied by a loud propaganda campaign advertising the country’s military might; this year, however, official reporting on the Tsentr 2019 war games was…
Of Putin and Xi – Russian Roulette Podcast with Hilary Appel
In this episode of Russian Roulette, Jeff Mankoff sits down with Hilary Appel, the Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College in California.…
Moscow’s municipal elections illustrate the growing political crisis in Russia
(The Cconversation) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, United Russia, eked out a majority in the Moscow municipal legislature in elections on Sept. 8. While Putin’s regime touted the outcome as a…