Donald Trump admires Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin’s track record over his career reveals a serial liar, and presents damning evidence of complicity in multiple critics’ violent deaths.
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Scandal-plagued FIFA says it’s committed to reform. Changing the way World Cup hosts are selected would be a start.
Massive noxious garbage dumps piling up around Moscow have sparked citizen protests. And those protests are turning into criticism of the political system, which could threaten the Putin regime.
Russian politics depends on a competition between different power networks. And hardline nationalists are winning at the expense of reformers.
Russian domestic policy helps explain why women are happy to buy into new feminine ideals.
Speaking with: satirist Armando Ianucci on The Death of Stalin
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Armando Iannucci, the satirist and director behind the film The Death of Stalin spoke with Associate Professor Stephen Harrington, an expert on political satire.
Vladimir Putin is leagues ahead of the rest in opinion polls. But he’s more worried about turnout.
Russia is a major global power in outlook and reach, locked in a values-based confrontation with the West. But it still lacks all elements of a developed superpower.
Stepping back from the current crisis in US-Russia relations, a Soviet expert asks: what’s in store for Russia in the long term, and is a peaceful transition possible when Putin’s gig is up?
As far as Moscow’s concerned, the stakes in Libya are low and the potential returns very high.
Russian media both hint toward the Russian regime’s prowess in influencing the US election, while simultaneously treating the accusation as baseless Western propaganda.
On the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth – A Clockwork Orange had a profound influence on the cultural and political landscape.
The death of Boris Nemtsov is a watershed moment for Russia, that also sees the passing of certain assumptions in the country.
The Russian film world has been in some turmoil this week. First there was news that the government was to decree that films “defiling the national culture, posing a threat to national unity and undermining…
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall that ushered in the end of communism in eastern Europe and the break-up of the Soviet Union, all the signs point to a new Cold War between Russia and…
These are dangerous times in Crimea. While the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has exposed the division between the country’s pro-Western and pro-Russian populations, another divide is more clear-cut and arguably…
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
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Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
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