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Fifth Anniversary of the Land Grab That Cost Russia Its Future

(EDM) By mid-March 2014, Russian “little green men” took full control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. And on March 18, President Vladimir Putin made a jubilant address to the Russian Federation Council…

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Russia’s Avoidable Epidemic of HIV/AIDS

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) After first exploding among people who inject drugs in the late 1990s, HIV/AIDS now presents a serious public health and social challenge in Russia. The threat…

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Beyond Putin: Russia’s Generations Y and Z

Of Russia’s 146 million citizens (if we include those in Crimea), 63 million—or 43 percent—are under 34 years of age. Of these, 30 million belong to Generation Y (millennials in…

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Podvig: Russia’s hypersonic weapons don’t fundamentally change much in terms of strategic balance and military capability

(FP) Normally inured to the fire and brimstone of Russian state TV, international audiences perked up their ears last month when a Sunday evening news show singled out a handful of…

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Sonin: The average annual growth rate for Russia over 2008-2017 was 1.2 percent

(Moscow Times) On Feb. 28, a Russian court denied bail and house arrest for U.S. citizen Michael Calvey, who was jailed two weeks earlier on alleged fraud charges. For over two decades, Calvey…

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Russia’s Strategy in Southeast Asia

To great fanfare, in May 2016, Russia hosted the third ASEAN-Russia Summit at the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Russia’s acceptance as an ASEAN dialog…

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Russia Today’s strategy and effectiveness on YouTube

(Post-Soviet Affairs) (Co-authored with Elizabeth Nelson) Abstract: Many countries now operate state-funded international broadcasters, communicating directly with foreign publics to promote a variety of foreign policy goals. RT (formerly known as Russia Today) is…

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