Cossacks as a Case Study of Russia’s Paramilitarization
Image license/credit Since the Wagner mutiny of June 2023, the role of paramilitaries in Russia has become a subject of intense scrutiny. Not only do such groups represent a diminution…
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In Their Own Voice: Supporting Russia’s Wartime Migrants
Image license/credit A recent Radio Free Liberty report tells the story of two young anti-war activists, Adelya and Ivan from Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan), who fled Russia after being intimidated and threatened…
Russian Military Keynesianism: Who Benefits from the War in Ukraine?
Image license/credit How has the transformation of the Russian economy and society in response to the challenges posed by the invasion of Ukraine affected popular support for the war? Scholars…
Prigozhin’s Fate in Putin’s Russia: The Political Roles of Aircraft
Image credit/license In Russia, politicians who run afoul of President Vladimir Putin are at risk of being killed by poison, defenestration, or gunshot, or of being sentenced to harsh prison…
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Multiple Ideological Agendas, One Tactical Goal
Image credit/license Just like the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the civil war in Syria in the 2010s, the war in Ukraine has produced an environment conducive to…
One Step Ahead of the Dictator: OVD-Info and the Rebuilding of Russian Civil Society
Russian human rights groups have never had it easy. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has only made matters worse, sparking an unprecedented wave of repression and forcing many activists to…
The Spatiality of War and Challenges in Restoring Ukraine’s Economy
With well over a year of large-scale and highly destructive warfare already passed, Ukraine has embarked on an ambitious effort to restore and enhance its economic potential, even amid the…
A Final Reckoning? Sino-Russian Relations Amid Russia’s War on Ukraine
As Russia’s war in Ukraine raged last year, Russia and China were getting closer in trade and diplomacy. China’s trade turnover with Russia reached new highs, and China became one…
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Russia
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is on a rising trajectory. At the 2022 Samarkand Summit, Iran officially signed a memorandum of obligation to join as a full-fledged member. For the…
Tbilisi’s Transactional Foreign Policy Leads Georgians Astray
Conventional wisdom holds that small states in hostile environments have minimal menus of foreign policy options. This theory is being tested in the countries wedged between Russia and the EU/NATO…