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Kurilla: The Kremlin line is that peaceful protests always escalate into riots

(The New York Times) MOSCOW—Smarting over decades of American criticism of its human rights record, Russia is now getting some payback. The Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, sanctioned by the United States as a violent…

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Snegovaya: The Kremlin is very averse to anything that has to do with revolutions | Greene: Kremlin propagandists don’t need to spin this

(RFE/RL) The screen depicts the Statue of Liberty backdropped by a cloud-specked sky, its outstretched arm and crowned head superimposed over the body of an American police officer whose knee presses…

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Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On April 6, 2020, the U.S. State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a terrorist organization and placed its leaders on its list of…

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Victory Day 2020: What a Comment Siege on the White House Tells Us About Historical Diplomacy

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) On May 8, at exactly 7:40 p.m., without a declaration of war, Russian comments inundated the social media pages of the White House. The presidential Instagram account…

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Terrorism in Afghanistan: A Joint Threat Assessment

(EastWest Institute) This report aims to provide a clear-eyed assessment of terrorism and armed conflict in Afghanistan and related security threats for the United States, Russia and key stakeholder countries,…

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History Matters

(TOL) Amid the pandemic, Russia, China, and others find time to debate the timing of the beginning and end of World War II and other details of years long past. The…

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Why Would the Kremlin Root for Bernie Sanders? Mistrust of Mass Politics and the Outward Projection of Domestic Insecurities

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The U.S. intelligence community seems to believe that Russia has intervened and continues to intervene in American elections on behalf of both President Donald Trump and…

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Moscow Downplays the Mixed Warnings From Munich

(EDM) The proceedings of the annual Munich Security Conference always attract keen attention in Moscow, and last weekend (February 14–16) was no exception. The discussions at this high-level forum are indeed…

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How the world could have been different

(Riddle) Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been traversing its own, often difficult, path towards independent development. Over the past thirty years, Russian society and the country’s elites…

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Why are Republicans using Putin’s talking points? This study helps explain.

(Monkey Cage) (Co-authored with Olga Kamenchuk) During the impeachment hearings and trial of President Trump, former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and others accused Republican congressional leaders of adopting Russian President Vladimir…

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Kurilla: The Kremlin line is that peaceful protests always escalate into riots

Snegovaya: The Kremlin is very averse to anything that has to do with revolutions | Greene: Kremlin propagandists don’t need to spin this

Designating the Russian Imperial Movement a Terrorist Organization: a Drop in the Bucket of Needed U.S. Counter-Extremism Responses

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Terrorism in Afghanistan: A Joint Threat Assessment

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Why Would the Kremlin Root for Bernie Sanders? Mistrust of Mass Politics and the Outward Projection of Domestic Insecurities

Moscow Downplays the Mixed Warnings From Munich

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Why are Republicans using Putin’s talking points? This study helps explain.