PONARS Eurasia
07 Dec 2020
(WVTF Radio/NPR) When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office next month, he will have to deal with some very urgent business with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As NPR's Lucian Kim reports from Moscow, Biden will have just 16 days to save the last arms control treaty that limits U.S. and...
PONARS Eurasia
07 Dec 2020
Economic Challenges Facing Eurasia in the COVID-19 Era
Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.
Featuring:
Vladimir Popov (Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, Berlin)
Anar Valiyev (ADA...
PONARS Eurasia
02 Dec 2020
(Atlantic Council blog) Volodymyr Dubovyk, Associate Professor, Odesa Mechnikov National University: Nobody on President-elect Joe Biden’s shortlist for Secretary of State would have been bad news for Ukraine, including Susan Rice, who wasn’t the first choice for many Ukraine watchers. There is a...
Arkady Moshes
01 Dec 2020
(Carnegie Moscow Center) Belarus has been engulfed by protests ever since the contested presidential election back in August, and whatever happens, it seems things cannot ever just go back to the way they were, with President Alexander Lukashenko ruling indefinitely. Yet the reaction of the West,...
Andrey Makarychev
01 Dec 2020
(Mezinárodní vztahy) Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly reshaped debates on the global order, democratic politics and the liberal mode of governing societies. Some have compared the virus to the “ultimate empty signifier”, which allowed difficult ideological groups to fill it with...
PONARS Eurasia
01 Dec 2020
Shaping a Usable Past: Memory Wars in Russia and Central Europe
Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week.
Featuring:
James Richter (Bates College)
Ivan Kurilla (European University at Saint...
Mikhail TroitskiyMikhail Troitskiy
28 Nov 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Since the end of World War II, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, subsequently Russia, have been one of the major factors defining the global security environment. In such circumstances, arms control has always been a key activity providing...
Margarita ZavadskayaBoris Sokolov
25 Nov 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has left noticeable traces in everyday life of Russian society. Eighty percent of Russians had to alter their lifestyles due to the virus, with half reporting that their incomes shrank, and this share keeps growing. Has the pandemic also...
Richard Arnold
24 Nov 2020
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The annual “Russian March”—an attempt by extreme nationalist forces to appropriate Russia’s National Unity Day (November 4)—has routinely provided a suggestive measure of the evolving strength of the radical-right opposition to President Vladimir Putin (see EDM, November 6,...
PONARS Eurasia
24 Nov 2020
(Moscow Times) In May, as Russia was tentatively emerging from a nationwide lockdown and clocking up near-record numbers of new infections, Russian officials began mounting an aggressive public campaign to present Moscow’s handling of the coronavirus as faultless.
Central to that was boasting ...
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