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The St. George's Ribbon and National Insanity
Today’s owner of a German car shares his identity with his grandfather, who fought the Nazis.
Putin wants a shining legacy. He has to solve 3 big problems first.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has just started his new term in office and is mulling how to secure his legacy. In his fourth and likely last term, he will be...
Yelena Khanga, Belonging, and Blackness in Russia
Early in Episode 694 of the This American Life podcast, "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged," hosts Emanuele Berry and Ira Glass are watching clips from the 1936 Soviet...
Will Russia’s economic turmoil affect its foreign policy?
How is the current financial crisis in Russia likely to affect Putin’s foreign policy choices in the short to mid-term future?
Putin won reelection. Now he’s a "lame duck." What will that mean?
To nobody’s surprise, Russian President Vladimir Putin won reelection to a fourth term on March 18, by a wide margin. With Putin’s (last?) presidential election in the books, I reached...
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...
Panel discusses whether Russia’s managed election hints at change
The four panelists argued that the elections reflect a country undergoing significant changes behind the scenes.
Sergei Guriev's data analysis looks at the post-Soviet transition
The “transition happiness gap” is finally closed after 25 years.
Russia's Relations with the West one Year after the US Presidential Elections
One year after the US presidential elections, what is the current state of US-Russian/Eurasian relations and what can we expect for the future?
Putin's Last Term?
Surprising no one, Vladimir Putin secured his fourth and possibly final presidential term in an election last March. A panel of scholars discussed what the next six years of Putin...