Russian Foreign Election Interventions Since 1991
(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian interference in the 2016 election in the United States is part of a long pattern of interference dating back to the early 1990s. What did Russia seek…
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Kurilla: It is not the Cold War that can explain events but Russia’s first revolutionary regime
(TodayOnline) MOSCOW — The expulsion of scores of Russian diplomats from the United States and countries across Europe and beyond has raised, yet again, the question of whether the world is…
Radnitz: To expel 60 diplomats and to close a consulate is actually a pretty surprisingly large response from the US
(MyNorthwest) When the Trump administration on Monday said the Russian Consulate in Seattle would close along with the expulsion of its staff, experts on the two countries’ perpetually tense relationship immediately…
Russian Immigration Control: Symbol Over Substance
(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia’s immigration system is consistently presented as draconian and inhumane. Human rights organizations, mass media, and scholars alike use labor slavery, violations of rights, and vulnerable migrants excluded…
What We Can Choose When We Have No Choice (Op-ed)
(Moscow Times) Russians had no choice in the 2018 presidential elections. Those who wanted to vote against corruption, against Russia’s aggressive foreign policy, against unlimited military spending, against protectionism and isolationism…
Using the Olympics for Political Gain: Russia and South Korea Compared
(RAD) South Korea’s leaders derived much greater benefit from hosting the Olympics than the Russian leadership did. The Olympics are important because they shine an international media spotlight on the host…
Putin’s Fake Victory Is Boring, but His New Term Will Be Anything But
(EDM) No surprises happened in Russia on Sunday, March 18, in the carefully orchestrated voting procedure generously described by the media as a “presidential elections.” But many questions loom over the…
Kurilla: The Russian election results should be compared not with democracies, but with the Soviet Union
(NYTimes) The Kremlin gave credit to a surprising source for the outpouring of support for Vladimir V. Putin in Sunday’s presidential election — the West. Ella A. Pamfilova, the chairman of…
Giuliano: There’s no way that Putin could be this popular and the system could work this well if he hadn’t destroyed independent media
(T-Vogue) Vladimir Putin won his fourth term as president on Sunday, March 18, and will continue to lead Russia for the next six years. Before Sunday’s results came in, some election-watchers had…
Russian-Ukrainian relations: The farewell that wasn’t
(FIIA) The “Revolution of Dignity” led to a considerable decrease in Russian economic, political and soft power influence over Ukraine. Yet the process did not turn out to be self-sustainable. Insufficient…