Content Syndicationhttps://carnegieendowment.org/rss/?fa=rss https://carnegieendowment.org/rss/solr/?fa=feeds http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174859_62935143720_1836682_n.jpg Friday, 04 Aug 2023 05:46:06 EST https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90327?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This model of a hybrid totalitarian state and semi-mobilized society appears to be entirely acceptable to the average Russian. Certainly it's possible to adapt to this model, including economically: a gradual decline in people's living standards has been the norm ever since the economy started stagnating back in 2014. | Русский]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90327?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 04 Aug 2023 05:46:06 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90069?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The regime is driven by ideas of supremacy and messianism, nationalism and imperialism. In this respect, there is no difference between Putin and his inner circle and Prigozhin.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/90069?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 28 Jun 2023 06:05:20 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Military, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89962?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss In the current political system, Prigozhin can only be against the elite so long as he is for Putin. It would take the slightest sign from the president for the Wagner boss to disappear. | Русский]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89962?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 14 Jun 2023 03:25:51 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Military, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89486?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Weariness of the “special military operation” in Russia is expressed not only in calls for peace, but also in either more aggressive or more passive, incurable support for the authorities. | Русский]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89486?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 10 Apr 2023 06:21:13 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88938?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The inherent submission of the Russian people to their political leadership has its roots in fear, generational trauma, and extreme socioeconomic dependency on the state. | Русский]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88938?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 20 Feb 2023 08:20:40 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88983?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss One of the key sociopolitical problems of Russian society is that seventy-year-old political leaders are deciding for young people how they will live and what they will die for. | Русский]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88983?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 08 Feb 2023 03:02:42 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88645?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Andrei Kolesnikov writes about a spontaneous association of mothers and wives of mobilized men in Russia. Are they just petitioners demanding that the state not treat their loved ones like cannon fodder? Or are we witnessing the birth of an anti-war protest in Russian society?]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88645?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 09 Dec 2022 02:16:40 EST Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Resources, Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Society and Culture https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88451?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Putin has managed to persuade a large section of Russians that the “special operation” of 2022 is a natural continuation of World War II. In essence, it is an existential war between the Russian civilization and the West. | Русский]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88451?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 21 Nov 2022 06:16:25 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegie.ru/publications/87803?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Rather than consolidating Russian society, the conflict in Ukraine has exacerbated existing divisions on a diverse array of issues, including support for the regime. Put another way, the impression that Putin now has the full support of the Russian public is simply incorrect. ]]> https://carnegie.ru/publications/87803?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 07 Sep 2022 09:43:11 EST Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Inside Russia, Resources, Russia, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87790?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The Soviet Union under Gorbachev was more free than Russia today. Back then, it was thanks to him that we had something we do not have right now: hope for a better future and faith that there is a way out of all this.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87790?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 31 Aug 2022 11:58:08 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87772?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Putin isn't just Russia's problem; he's a problem for the rest of the world, too. And the only way for the world to solve that problem is by joining forces with Russians living in Europe and democratic-minded nationals inside Russia.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87772?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 29 Aug 2022 08:15:34 EST Russia, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87539?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss As the war nears the end of its fifth month, the situation in Russia suggests that a shift is beginning to take place-both in the government and in the general population. As Putin has made clear, Russia's plans in Ukraine will proceed regardless of the economic consequences-and all indications are these will be large.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87539?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 15 Jul 2022 03:31:17 EST Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Resources, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87261?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The nation is finding itself in a psychological crisis. In response, some Russians are fervently supporting the operation with patriotic zeal. Others are engaging in endless squabbles.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87261?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 07 Jun 2022 10:17:41 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Russia's rulers build the future using blueprints from the past. Right now, Vladimir Putin's Russia seems to have gone back in time to antiquity.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 24 May 2022 08:24:26 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87152?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Putin is stoking hatred for the enemy as an exercise in group therapy that inhibits Russians from seeing what is happening around them.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87152?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:21:30 EST Russia, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The regime has no more screws to turn, and only one pedal is left: conflating what Russia is doing in Ukraine with the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87090?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:00:00 EST Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Resources, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87009?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The Russian state is encouraging dehumanization and raising Generation Z: not Zoomers, but disciples of the letter Z, the emblem of Moscow's war.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87009?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 27 Apr 2022 04:47:11 EST Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Resources, Russia, Political Reform, Society and Culture https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86921?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss It has immersed itself in an anti-utopian delusion. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86921?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 19 Apr 2022 04:00:00 EST Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Resources, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86972?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss For the moment, the regime has Russian public opinion on its side, and it may continue to delude itself, just as it is deluding the people, that it can turn Russia into a self-sufficient, self-isolating, expansionist rogue state, based on the idea of Russian superiority over other nations.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86972?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 18 Apr 2022 10:42:51 EST Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Resources, Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86822?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Those who approve or stay silent bear, at the very least, collective responsibility for what is happening in their own country and what the state is doing. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/86822?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 06 Apr 2022 01:31:53 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy, Society and Culture