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Nov 25, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Maria Snegovaya |Jon B. Alterman
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Jenny Town |Thomas Shugart |Maria Snegovaya
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** This weekend, Russia signed into law a strategic partnership agreement with North Korea that includes a mutual defense provision and strengthens security ties between the two countries.
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May 28, 2024 | 
aei.org | Dalibor Rohac |Giselle Donnelly |Iulia Joja |Maria Snegovaya
Populism has been on the rise throughout Europe and has become particularly concerning in Central and Eastern Europe with the rise of figures such as Orban and Fico. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia welcome Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to discuss her recently released book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Max Bergmann |Michael Kimmage |Jeffrey Mankoff |Maria Snegovaya
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced Washington to rethink its fundamental assumptions about Moscow. Every U.S. president from Bill Clintonto Joe Biden had sought some degree of engagement with Russia. As late as 2021, Biden expressed hope that Russia and the United States could arrive at “a stable, predictable relationship.” But Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine has radically altered that assessment. It is now clear that the two countries will remain antagonists for years to come.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Mark Galeotti |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Maria Snegovaya
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** On Feb. 16, 2024, Russian opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny collapsed and died after a walk in the penal colony where he was being held north of the Arctic circle.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Lucian Kim |Kathryn Stoner |Maria Snegovaya |Michael A. McFaul
Alexei Navalny loved Russia and was willing to risk everything for it. It is hard to grasp the magnitude of his death for his people and his country. By Lucian KimFebruary 2024Alexei Navalny defied death several times in his career as Vladimir Putin’s chief domestic opponent. When I worked as National Public Radio’s correspondent in Moscow a few years ago, my editors asked me to prepare an obituary in the event of Navalny’s untimely death.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
fark.com | Maria Snegovaya |Michael Kimmage |Jade McGlynn
Putin the Ideologue The Kremlin's Potent Mix of Nationalism, Grievance, and Mythmaking By Maria Snegovaya, Michael Kimmage, and Jade McGlynn November 16, 2023 in https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putin-ideologue https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putin-ideologue With the war in Ukraine heading into what will seemingly be a bloody winter for both Russia and Ukraine, there is one person who does not appear to have suffered on the home front: Russian President...
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Jade McGlynn |Maria Snegovaya |Michael Kimmage
With the war in Ukraine heading into what will seemingly be a bloody winter for both Russia and Ukraine, there is one person who does not appear to have suffered on the home front: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose approval rating has remained at a steady high even as casualties from the conflict continue to mount.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Maria Snegovaya |Michael Kimmage |Jade McGlynn |James M. Lindsay
With the war in Ukraine heading into what will seemingly be a bloody winter for both Russia and Ukraine, there is one person who does not appear to have suffered on the home front: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose approval rating has remained at a steady high even as casualties from the conflict continue to mount.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | John V.C. Nye |Maria Snegovaya
When Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, thus starting the biggest war in Europe since World War II, Western policymakers promised to respond with “sanctions from hell.” Yet the so-called hell has yet to come for Russia. In fact, in 2022, Russia earned even larger annual revenues from oil than in 2021, with 2022 receipts by 28 percent .
