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Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation [NEW BOOK]

(Co-authored with Jean Radvanyi) This timely book provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of the geographical, historical, political, cultural, and geostrategic factors that drive Russia today. Russia has long inspired fear…

Renewables in Kazakhstan and Russia: Promoting “Future Energy” or Entrenching Hydrocarbon Dependency?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Energy and natural resource use has always been a key issue of geopolitics, but as more countries adopt “post-oil” transition policies, environmental sustainability has itself become an important…

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The August 1968 Red Square Protest and Its Legacy

(Wilson Center) Fifty years ago tomorrow, an act of great moral courage occurred against the backdrop of the Cold War. On August 25, 1968, four days after hundreds of thousands of…

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Russia’s Internal Otherness – Analysis

(Eurasia Review) A deep internal culture divide in Russia between traditionalists and European Russians encourages isolationism. For Russia, the cost of sacrificing development for the sake of security and international status,…

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What Is To Be Done?

(Moscow-on-Thames) Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s irrepressible spokesman, said today that Russia would like to know what it could do to get sanctions reduced. This, of course, set tongues wagging, both in Russia…

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Interview with Brian Taylor: The Code of Putinism

(Point & Counterpoint) Brian Taylor (Syracuse University) discusses his new book The Code of Putinism (Oxford University Press, 2018). Brian examines the political and economic governance systems that have developed in Vladimir Putin’s Russia,…

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Administrative Mobilization and the Dynamics of Electoral Manipulations on Putin’s Presidential Election

(PONARS Policy Memo) Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term is shaping up to be the most complicated of his political career. According to the Russian Constitution, he is not allowed to…

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Marten: Wagner soldiers also offer the Russian government “plausible deniability” if something goes wrong

(Global News) Three Russian journalists wound up dead last week in the Central African Republic, where they’d been following a shadowy paramilitary force that often backs Kremlin causes. It’s unclear who killed the three men, but…

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Tenth Anniversary of the War That Wounded Georgia and Derailed Russia

(EDM) In the first week of August 2008, escalating tensions between Georgia and Russia exploded in a messy battle for Tskhinvali, South Ossetia. The resulting “Five Day War” culminated in the…

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Outsiders and Locals: The Kremlin’s Policy of Appointing Governors in the North Caucasus

(RAD) The Kremlin does not have a consistent policy across the Russian regions regarding the election or appointment of governors. Despite allowing elections in most regions since 2012, the Kremlin has forced…

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