PONARS Eurasia
19 Mar 2020
(FP) Moscow—As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, bringing nations to a halt and killing over 8,000 people in recent weeks around the globe, Russia emerged as a rare spot of calm—or perhaps indifference.
Daily life largely continued as normal, with shops, workplaces, and schools still operating...
Viatcheslav MorozovViatcheslav Morozov
19 Mar 2020
(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 Senator Bernie Sanders. No hard proof of those allegations is available in the public domain. The...
Elizabeth Wishnick
18 Mar 2020
(CLM) There has a been a notable consolidation of the Sino-Russian partnership during the past two years. Although this has coincided with the U.S.-China trade war and a period of increased tensions between the United States and Russia, the Sino-Russian partnership began deepening well before the...
PONARS Eurasia
17 Mar 2020
Pavel Baev in "Putin Nullifies All Further Speculation About a Leadership Transition in Russia" (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
"Seeking to preserve a modicum of uncertainty, Putin has yet to formally announce his intention to stand in the 2024 presidential elections; but the political class tends to take...
PONARS Eurasia
16 Mar 2020
(VOA) Sairagul Sauytbay, who said she faced torture in the Chinese detention camps in the Xinjiang region, never thought her story of survival would gain international attention one day.
The 43-year-old Kazakh woman said she was stunned last Wednesday when U.S. first lady Melania Trump handed...
Henry HaleHenry Hale
11 Mar 2020
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Speaking to the lower house of parliament on March 10, Vladimir Putin seemingly affirmed what many have suspected all along: that he intends to stay in power well beyond the expiration of his current presidential term in 2024. He did this by endorsing a constitutional...
PONARS Eurasia
11 Mar 2020
Postponed: Spring Policy Conference, Friday, March 27, 2020, at the GW Elliott School in Washington, D.C.
This event has been postponed until Fall 2020. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Samuel Greene
10 Mar 2020
(Moscow-on-Thames) I’ll say it: Sometimes I get it wrong. Or not quite right. Which is almost the same thing.
In case you’ve missed it, today’s news is that Valentina Terehskova, a United Russia Duma Deputy and the first woman in space, proposed ‘resetting’ Putin’s presidential terms, allowing him...
PONARS Eurasia
09 Mar 2020
(NYTimes) As far as many Russians are concerned, Alexei Botyan, a Soviet spy during World War II, was a hero whose daring actions saved the Polish city of Krakow from destruction by the Nazis.
But the Poles, and a number of respected historians, have a different take. To them, Mr. Botyan (...
Judyth Twigg
09 Mar 2020
(CFR/Think Global Health) ussia is surrounded by COVID-19. As of March 6, at least nine of its 16 neighboring countries have reported cases, and it shares a 4,300-km land border with China. Its own confirmed number of cases so far is in the single digits. There’s no evidence yet of community spread...
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