... channels. During the Putin era, a sharp divide has emerged between the newspapers that claim a national circulation and those that cultivate specific niches only in the metropolises of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Kremlin closely controls the nationwide newspapers; characteristically, these still carry...

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.... The threat of democratic contagion is the Kremlin s worst nightmare, and a key reason that it has opted for an alternative narrative of the Ukrainians as puppets of more or less every- body, including the United States and the EU, but above all as reincarnations of the Nazi threat of the 1940s...

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... to the Russian strategic relationship, while increasing its participation within the Moscow-led CSTO security bloc. Still, many in Armenia sense a looming threat from the Kremlin, fearing that Russia may chal- lenge its defense reform and modernization, and impose a new limit on the Western embrace. The pro...

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...Peter Lavelle It is not hard to see Putin as an authoritarian. In most ways he is, based on Western standards. But, given Russia's current development trajectory, he probably has to be…. Either the Kremlin continues its very hard-handed approach to restructuring the economy or Russia risks becoming...

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...Floriana Fossato President Putin has repeatedly said that a free press is the ‘most important guarantor of the irreversibility of our country's democratic course.’ Yet during the last year the Kremlin has appeared more interested in organizing a consistent flow of ‘correct’ information than...