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Andrei Kolesnikov
How Russians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War
Putin’s Captives: How a Ruinous Imperial War Has Strengthened His Rule at Home
Russia’s New Fear Factor: How the War Is Driving a Wave of Purges and Suicides Among the Country’s Elites
Russians at War
«Didn't understand the question»
'In Alaska, Putin and Trump symbolically began a process of reconciliation between Russia and the US'
The Cold War Putin Wants: Why Russia Seeks to Change, Not End, the Conflict in Ukraine
Why Putin Still Prefers War: Russia’s Growing Resolve to Fight On in Ukraine
Putin’s War Party: How Russia’s Election Will Validate Autocracy—and Permanent Conflict With the West
With the so-called Putin majority ascendant, the government could hasten its shift toward such a regime with broad popular approval.
Andrei Kolesnikov
Andrei Kolesnikov was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. His research focuses on the major trends shaping Russian domestic politics, with...
How Russians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War
The first occasion was the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, which went largely unnoticed by many Russians because few knew what was going on.
Putin’s Captives: How a Ruinous Imperial War Has Strengthened His Rule at Home
Many Russians seem sanguine about their future despite Vladimir Putin's vast imperial project in eastern Ukraine, writes Andrei Kolesnikov...
Russia’s New Fear Factor: How the War Is Driving a Wave of Purges and Suicides Among the Country’s Elites
In the 1920s, the Bolshevik economic theorist and Communist Party darling Nikolai Bukharin was one of Stalin's closest allies.
Russians at War
In early April, the coffin containing the body of 75-year-old Vladimir Zhirinovsky—the ultranationalist and populist who was a crucial...
«Didn't understand the question»
The end of hostilities will have to wait a long time — the current conflict is unfolding in the mode of medieval wars.
'In Alaska, Putin and Trump symbolically began a process of reconciliation between Russia and the US'
OP-ED. The Anchorage meeting was never meant to produce real negotiations on Ukraine, but rather to send a tacit message: Russia is waging...
The Cold War Putin Wants: Why Russia Seeks to Change, Not End, the Conflict in Ukraine
Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice.
Why Putin Still Prefers War: Russia’s Growing Resolve to Fight On in Ukraine
During the Cold War, few senior Soviet officials understood the dynamics of Soviet relations with the West as well as Valentin Falin.
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A political analyst who has criticized Latvia's policies towards ethnic Russians, often highlighting perceived injustices and tensions.