PONARS Eurasia

05/17/2024

🚨 Exciting news! Our latest eBook has arrived! 📚 Dive deep into the shifting dynamics across Eurasia in the fallout of the war in Ukraine. From managing the effects of international sanctions to handling waves of Russian emigres, explore the complex aftermath. 🌍📖

Read it here: https://www.ponarseurasia.org/policy-memos-list/ebooks/

05/06/2024

Join us next week for PONARS Strategic Conversations! RSVP here: https://www.ponarseurasia.org/events/
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has upended its relations with neighbors in the region. Over the last several decades, countries across Eurasia have varied widely in how they have engaged with Moscow, with some advancing more favorable views (both at the elite and the societal levels), while others remaining highly critical of Russia's often domineering approach. But, now in its third year, the war in Ukraine has forced every country to reevaluate its relationship with Russia. The challenges are many, from managing the effect of international sanctions (and Russia's attempts to evade them), handling waves of Russian emigres and the societal tensions they create, and assessing new threats to their own sovereignty in light of Russia's aggression. This eBook shifts the focus from Russia to the other countries in the Eurasia region and gives the floor to experts on and from these societies to analyze the broader fallout of the war in Ukraine.

03/22/2024

The PONARS Online Spring Conference is one week away. Have you registered yet? Join us for free and from anywhere for this entirely virtual line-up of presentations on comparative or domestic politics, society, and economics related to the region, both connected to and beyond Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

More information and RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCFEW8flMshckCyWgp2zha1qwpVH5__V-Vs7b-GYCZZ3Hc1A/viewform

03/20/2024

Thank you to all who joined us last night for the launch of PONARS's Strategic Conversations event series. The recording for the talk, featuring Olga Oliker and Samuel Charap is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbmC4kolk84

Be sure to join our mailing list to stay up-to-date on upcoming events, including future editions of Strategic Conversations!

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03/12/2024

Join us next week for the launch of a new event series: PONARS Strategic Conversations. Strategic Conversations will be a series of genuine conversations on pressing topics in Eurasian security. The first edition features Olga Oliker and Samuel Charap addressing how priorities, perceptions, and preferences have changed in the two years since the full-scale invasion.

What does a protracted war look like for both Ukraine and Russia? Is a cease-fire possible, and if so what would it look like? What do defeat and victory mean for each country? How are Ukrainian politics and society dealing with the difficulties of securing more solid Western support? Join us for a discussion on these points and more by RSVPing here: https://forms.gle/T4SYg4Jt2K4um122A

03/08/2024

How can we understand and interpret different Russian constituencies' reactions to the war in Ukraine? This is the central question addressed in the latest PONARS Online Academy video "Russian Society in Wartime."

View it now here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdhXGB6go0&list=PLnYhtecpqY0gQ0kwMzY4LVQ5I8Veyf37T&index=25

Our Online Academy videos provide succinct overviews of research and scholarship into Russia and Eurasia. Each video is accompanied by a list of additional sources for those who would like to learn more about the specific topics addressed. Visit our website for the full collection: https://www.ponarseurasia.org/online-academy/

How can we understand Russians' expressions of support for or opposition to the war under Putin? PONARS Eurasia's newest Online Academy video addresses these...

03/07/2024

🚨New PONARS Policy Memo: The Carlson-Putin Interview, or the Limits of Dialogue between the Western Far Right and Russia.

Marlene Laruelle and John Chrobak catalog the reactions within the western far right to Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin. Read more here: https://www.ponarseurasia.org/the-carlson-putin-interview/

https://www.ponarseurasia.org/the-carlson-putin-interview/

Image license/credit ponars policy memo no. 881 (PDf) Former Fox anchor Tucker Carlson is a well-known figure representing the MAGA realm, embodying many of the successes of Trumpism and the provocative rhetorical style of the Western far right more globally. On foreign policy issues, Carlson has la...

03/06/2024

Thank you to all who joined yesterday's talk with Marat Iliyasov on "Chechen Demographic Growth as an Indicator of Unresolved Conflict."

If you missed it, you can now view the recording here:

Marat Iliyasov on Chechen Demographic Growth as an Indicator of Unresolved ConflictThis talk was originally recorded at the Elliott School of International A...

03/05/2024

🚨New PONARS Policy Memo: Will Russian Voters Abroad Support Putin in the Upcoming Presidential Election?: Lessons from the 2018 Russian Presidential Election

Eugene Huskey looks at the Russian diaspora's voting behavior in 2018 for insight on what to expect in this year's election. Read the full memo here:

Image license/credit ponars policy memo no. 880 (pdf) Since the 1990s, Russian citizens living abroad have been able to vote in Russian elections for president and parliament as well as in constitutional referendums. With the large-scale exodus of Russians following the full-scale invasion of Ukrain...

03/01/2024

Join us next week for another New Voices on Eurasia talk! Marat Iliyasov will present on "Chechen Demographic Growth as an Indicator of Unresolved Conflict." Register here to secure your spot: https://forms.gle/DgKRcYFGBmf76biv8

02/28/2024

🚨New PONARS Policy Memo: Grassroots Urban Activism and the Use of Digital Platforms in Russia

Vsevolod Bederson, Liubov Chernysheva, and Andrei Semenov explore how digital tools affect activism in Russia. Read more:

Image license/credit ponars policy memo no. 879 (pdf) Citizens worldwide increasingly rely on information and communication technologies to organize themselves and push for social changes. Place-based collective actions are no exception: across continents and political regimes, citizens use digital....

02/28/2024

Друзі, серія щотижневих зустрічей «Громадянське суспільство та українська стійкість» від PONARS Eurasia, University of Colorado Boulder та Isar Ednannia повертається! 🔥
🇺🇸 version is below

Анонсуємо першу онлайн дискусію на тему «Розвіюємо міфи про Україну»:
⏰ П'ятниця, 1 березня, 19:00 (за київським часом)

Спікери:
• Олексій Гарань, науковий директор Фонду «Демократичні ініціативи імені Ілька Кучеріва», професор Києво-Могилянської академії, член PONARS Eurasia;
• Пітер Дікінсон, видавець журналу «Бізнес Україна» та редактор служби UkraineAlert Atlantic Council.
Модератор: Роман Олексенко.

📌 Реєстрація: https://bit.ly/slavaukraini2024
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Please join us at 12pm EST (7pm Ukraine time) on Friday, March 1 for our discussion “Dispelling the Myths about Ukraine”.

With this webinar we are launching our spring season of discussions on the role of Ukraine’s civil society in resisting the aggressor. This initiative is supported by PONARS Eurasia and ISAR Ednannia.
Speakers:
• Olexiy Haran, DIF, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Professor, member of PONARS Eurasia;
• Peter Dickinson, editor of the UkraineAlert blog at the Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines and Atlantic Council expert.
Moderator: Roman Oleksenko.

📌 Register here: https://bit.ly/slavaukraini2024