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Vladimir Putin in Volgograd. Photo by www.kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Russian Presidential Election: To the Victor, Stagnation

February 26, 2018 / Hans-Joachim Spanger

Putin will remain Russia’s strong man for another six years. But his muscle-flexing on the international stage is designed to divert attention from the country’s dismal economic outlook. A key feature of democratic elections, according to Polish-American political scientist Adam Przeworski, is their “institutionalized uncertainty”: Anyone can win. There is no question that Russia’s presidential […]

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Euromaidan, Kiev 2013. By Ivan Bandura via flickr.com, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

How Western Populism Weakens Democracy in Ukraine

April 07, 2017 / Iryna Solonenko

Populism in Europe, and in the West generally, plays into the hands of anti-democratic forces in Ukraine – and supports Russia’s destabilizing influence. Europe’s rising populist surge threatens Ukraine’s democratic future. During the Euromaidan protests in 2013/2014 and their aftermath, when the anti-Yanukovych opposition came to power, some European media denounced what they described as […]

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Picture: Cracked EU vs Russia flags. Ukrainian crisis conceptual image. Foto: Bröckelnde Flaggen der EU und Russland.
Cracked EU vs Russia flags. © MARTIN CAPEK / fotolia.com

EU-Russia Sanctions: An Unsteady Deadlock

December 21, 2016 / Frank Beauchamp

The European Union and Russia have been locked in an economic struggle over Ukraine for two years. With Donald Trump the next president of the United States, the West’s Russia policy might substantially change – and Europe’s Eastern policy is today more uncertain than ever. In July 2014, following Russia’s unilateral annexation of Crimea and […]

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Vladimir Putin and the Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, December 2013 © The Presidential Press and Information Office
Vladimir Putin and the Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, December 2013 © The Presidential Press and Information Office

An Offer Yerevan Could Not Refuse

October 06, 2014 / Mikayel Zolyan

In the run-up to the Ukraine crisis, Armenia rejected an association agreement with the European Union in favor of cooperation with Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Yet the country’s future in the Eurasian Economic Union seems uncertain – and the door to Brussels might not be completely shut. On September 3, 2014 it was exactly one […]

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© Sime Simon via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
© Sime Simon via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

An Appetite for Change?

March 04, 2014 / Justine Doody

While the Czech Republic shows signs of a new right direction to curb its corruption problem and bolster the rule of law, Russia is taking steps to bring its judiciary under even tighter control. This might also dim its economic future. On 13 June 2013, the Czech prime minister’s chief of staff, Jana Nagyova, was […]

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