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Russian Brinksmanship: Don’t Confuse Unpredictability with Strength
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 81–83.
Published: 01 December 2016
... develops a more intentional foreign policy, the country's influence won't extend beyond its neighborhood. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Russia Russian foreign policy Russian politics LYALKA LYALKA Russia wants the world to treat it like the global power the Soviet...
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Russia’s Real Rulers
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 79–90.
Published: 01 September 2000
... kind or an the oligarchs, a man the American finan
other are nothing new in Russia. Financial cier George Soros (after he himself tried to
and industrial fiefdoms have been an inte make a pile of money in Russia in recent
gral part of Russian politics for centuries, years) has called...
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Fringe Benefits: How a Russian ultranationalist think tank is laying the “intellectual” foundations for a far-right movement
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 87–92.
Published: 01 December 2017
... industrialization, convert the Eurasian Economic Union into an autarky, and merge the government with the Russian Orthodox Church. In addition to Prokhanov’s Zavtra , Dugin runs and contributes to various multilingual blogs—including Geopolitica.ru and The Fourth Political Theory—and hosts a YouTube channel...
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Who’s in Charge in the Kremlin?
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 1–6.
Published: 01 December 2006
... as Russia’s problems begin to mount.
the course of events in Russian politics is
already well underway. Divisions within Technocrats versus the Siloviki
Russia’s party of power are deepening. The battle between the Kremlin’s tech
The rivalries those divisions have created nocrats and siloviki is most...
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The Russian Roller Coaster
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 22–29.
Published: 01 December 2004
... as the Russian political on fraud, tax-evasion, and other charges,
class began to focus on the December 2003 and its aftermath— the freezing of Khodor
The Russian Roller Coaster 25
kovsky’s equity stake in Yukos and the sub American citizen after...
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Russia: Farewell to Empire?
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2002
... with Russia as a “normal” ists enabled him to end the debate that had
country, they also demanded that the out preoccupied the Russian political class for a
side world continue to treat Russia as a ma decade over how Russia should define its
jor power, despite its diminished resources identity...
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Russia and America: How Close an Embrace?
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2004
... whose end security to disappear. For most of the 1990s,
point was liberal democracy. If one looks the Russian political class felt that Wash
today at the patchwork of electoral and il ington did not deliver to Moscow the polit
liberal democracies and outright authoritar ical and economic...
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Russia’s Turn West: Sea Change or Opportunism
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 13–22.
Published: 01 December 2003
... democratic in certain political pro been more able to make it stick as a policy.)
cesses, is not a democracy; that the war in The source of this decade-long shift to
Chechnya is indicative of the true nature ward the West is rooted in a change in the
of the Russian regime...
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National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty: No Need to Wreck the Accord
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2001
... by the Russian Duma. Russia
their arsenals. also has announced it will withdraw from
While the political relationship between the earlier s t a r t I accord that governs the
the United States and Russia has changed current size and makeup of the two arsenals.
substantially...
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Two Simplified Pictures of Putin’s Russia, Both Wrong
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2005
...” own specific political and economic order.
view of the developments in Russia has been They believe Russians are not only unable
advanced by the country’s main television but unwilling to adopt the Western mode of
channels, as well as by such newspapers and life. By all accounts, the “realists...
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Russia’s Grandest Master: A Conversation With Gary Kasparov
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 25–34.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., open society that held so much promise, he hoped, for new beginnings. Today, Kasparov has transcended his circumscribed beginnings and has sought to build a bridge from the game of chess to the transformation of the Russian government, a political game where the stakes are so much higher. A leader...
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Gas and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia: Pipelines, Regional Stability, and the Korean Nuclear Crisis
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 23–36.
Published: 01 December 2003
... may not be able to absorb its 20 bil Yukos’s politically powerful rival, Transneft,
lion until about 2010. This gives Beijing which wants to build a crude pipeline to the
bargaining room in negotiations over the Russian port of Nakhodka, near Vladivos
price. Precisely how much...
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Brothers in Arms: Why Russian Ultranationalists Confronted Their Own Government on the Battlefields of Ukraine
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 91–98.
Published: 01 June 2017
...: “But is it OK to kill people because of their political views?” “Of course it is OK,” the bearded man says. “If these views contradict the interests of the nation, they should be uprooted.” Although he does not mention any nation in particular, he refers to Russian soldiers as his “blood brothers...
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Is it Time to Drop the F-Bomb on Russia?: Why Putin Is Almost a Fascist
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 48–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of trying on Putin’s part. The absence of a mobilizing philosophy constrains the aggressiveness of the Russian state, as without it, the Russian people will not accept fighting foreign battles indefinitely. Similar social preconditions tend to induce similar political responses, so it shouldn’t...
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Bush and Putin’s Tentative Embrace
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 11–17.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the Departments of State and Com Economically, the Russians felt they had
merce. However, Russia fails to inspire most been left to fend for themselves after the
others who count in politics and business. dismantlement of the USSR and withdrawal
American investors— badly burned by their from Eastern...
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Russia's Very Secret Services
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 83–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
...,” fsb director Patrushev later declared. Uzbekistan's enemies are now officially considered a threat to Russian national security—another political gift for Karimov. In fact, to a surprising degree, it appears that the other countries involved in rats —especially Uzbekistan and China—have...
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RusNet on the Offensive
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 102–110.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., three independent opposition new media—Kasparov.ru, Ej.ru, and Grani.ru—along with Alexei Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal were blocked. Notably, Garry Kasparov, the Russian world chess champion, has put himself forward as a future opposition candidate for President, and Navalny, a lawyer and political...
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Against Russophobia
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 25–32.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
Much of the intellectual basis for, and sian political culture” leading both to the
even the specific phraseology of, Russopho adoption of the Leninist form of Marxism
bia was put forward in Britain in the nine in 1917 and to the problems of Russian de
teenth century, growing out of its...
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Ukraine Between Russia and the West: Buffer or Flashpoint
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 March 2017
... these distinctions and create a shared political culture. Religion has not provided a unifying glue as it did, for example, in Russia (Orthodoxy) or Poland (Catholicism). Religious affiliation in Ukraine reflected the differing historical experiences of its regions. The Russian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian...
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The Forgotten George Kennan: From Cheerleader to Critic of Tsarist Russia
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 79–84.
Published: 01 December 2003
... to
the eruption of the island of Martinique in Siberia; by kidnapping the children of
1902, a two-volume biography of railroad “politically untrustworthy” people and
magnate E. H. Harriman, and translations exiles, and putting them into state asy
from the Russian of folk legends...
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