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After five years of operating mostly in western Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Islamist terror groups are again growing in strength in the West.
While Putin is all but guaranteed to win, war fatigue, electoral engineering and extreme risk-aversion suggest that the Kremlin is anxious to get these elections over and done with.
Recent laws and pro-Putin sentiment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have sparked concern that the Central Asian country is backsliding on democracy.
The US has imposed another round of sanctions following the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. But will it work?
Alexei Navalny, a persistent thorn in the side of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died on Feb. 16, 2024, in prison, authorities said.
The forthcoming March election in Russia is likely to mean another victory for Vladimir Putin, who remains popular, for now.
Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
Vladimir Putin and his KGB men have steadily extinguished the artistic freedom the genre enjoyed in the 1990s, with Ukraine’s invasion adding yet another nail in the coffin.
Putin has progressively sickened Russian society, creating a toxic culture that celebrates xenophobia, nativism, and violence.
Russian authorities have given no legitimate justification for dropping criminal cases against rebel troops – undermining both President Vladimir Putin and the legal system.
Russia’s systematic manipulation of children dates back long before the war in Ukraine, to when the Soviet Union first made false promises to its large population of orphans.
China has provided Russia with economic support during the war in Ukraine. But Beijing may be concerned over recent events in Moscow.
Signs of discontent among Russian nationalists and Wagner had been growing before a column of paramilitaries began an aborted march on Moscow.
China’s partnership with Russia has been unbalanced in recent years, as Beijing grew more powerful.
Alliances around the Ukraine war have highlighted fragmenting support for the west.
A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
Renewed fighting in the South Caucasus has some wondering, “Where are the great powers?”
Stalin, who died on March 5, 1953, was partially rehabilitated in the decades that followed. These days, he is in some respects a source of inspiration for Vladimir Putin.
Pavlovsky became the ultimate insider – until he fell out with the boss he had helped make all-powerful.
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
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Assistant Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
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Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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