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Prof. Stephen Jones tells Davis Center alum Joshua Kucera why Tbilisi’s ruling party introduced its "foreign agent" law, why it’s triggered huge protests, and the potential consequences of both.
The former U.S. presidential advisor and Davis Center alumna speaks with Russia Matters about all the above, plus turmoil and elections worldwide, Trump, and the Russian leader's adeptness at using others' weaknesses to his advantage.
The EU needs to send a clear message, argues Prof. Stephen Jones: Brussels should notify Georgia’s government that the country's EU candidacy will be suspended should the foreign agents law pass.
The war has made Azerbaijan more important to both Europe and Russia, raising Baku's star perhaps higher than it's ever been, while Moscow's sway in the Caucasus is at a nadir, writes Davis Center alum Joshua Kucera.
Earlier waves of emigration from Russia, as well as growing persecution and denunciations of political dissent, plus Kremlin efforts to boost patriotism, may have influenced the poll results, writes center associate Simon Saradzhyan.
The latest interactive dataset from our Imperiia Project helps preserve the history of Ukraine’s fragile natural world and clearly calls for new strategies of mapping the past, expanding beyond the documentation left by those in power.
Even as Moscow’s position in Armenia is looking shaky, its key base there seems as firmly rooted as ever, showing that a dramatic shift in Yerevan’s foreign policy won’t be easy. Davis Center alum Joshua Kucera reports.
Davis Center associate Vera Mironova, who has spent years studying militants from the ex-USSR, says that Russia’s war mobilization may have turned the concert hall outside Moscow into a relatively easy target.
As Vladimir Putin sailed into his fifth term as president in Moscow, Harvard's Russia Matters Project surveyed some leading Western experts on Russia to assess the election results' impact on the West.
