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Putin Demands Improved Russia-US Relations

(EDM) “Big mistake”—that was how Russian President Vladimir Putin recently described the determined efforts in the United States to investigate Russia’s interference in the US elections last year. He characterized…

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Remembering Boris Nemtsov and Reflecting upon Russian History

(PRIO) Five years ago, Boris Nemtsov, one of the leaders of Russian liberal opposition, visited Oslo and made his cause for several audiences, who now remember his passion and joy. There is…

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Why are Russians protesting? Eight PONARS Eurasia experts explain

(Monkey Cage blog) Joshua Tucker asked eight PONARS Eurasia experts on Russian politics: Do the protests that took place across 99 cities in Russia on Sunday signify that meaningful change in Russian politics is likely?…

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We Should Focus the “Realist” Lens on the Kremlin’s “Normalizers”

Kremlin policymakers continue to strategize ways to legitimize their actions toward Ukraine — alongside diminishing chances of Western sanctions being lifted and getting the Trump administration on Russia’s side. Moscow…

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How Kremlin Efforts to Control the Regions May Be Backfiring

(PONARS Policy Memo) In the 1990s and early 2000s, much of Russian politics revolved around relations between the Kremlin and regional elites. As Putin recentralized federal authority over the course of…

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Why is someone trying to shutter one of Russia’s top private universities?

(CSM) Generally, prestigious private universities with hundreds of students don't get shut down over fairly minor, six-month-old technical issues that have since been resolved. But that is precisely the predicament facing…

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Russian protests won’t topple Putin but the Kremlin is right to be worried

(The Conversation) When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential election, he was seemingly blocked from running for office. But then, in early March, he posted an hour-long…

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Omelicheva: Russia’s homegrown mobilization cannot be pinned on foreign instigation

(KU News) A wave of rallies and protests on the corruption of Vladimir Putin's government is rare behavior in Russia in recent years and could provide clues into the developing political climate…

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Game On

(Moscow-on-Thames) If you thought Russia’s presidential election was going to be held in March 2018, you were wrong. The voting began today. In an authoritarian system, elections aren’t about who wins or…

Russia’s Conventional Deterrence: An Enhanced Tool for both Warfighting and Political Strategy

March 24, 2017

(PONARS Policy Memo) Over the last two decades, conventional (non-nuclear) deterrence in Russia’s military strategy has changed from being a sub-tactical, sub-strategic warfighting tool to being a separate military-political factor—a self-contained…

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Russia’s Conventional Deterrence: An Enhanced Tool for both Warfighting and Political Strategy