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Is There a Feud Over a New Tsar in the Kremlin?

Details: 01 April 2015; Donald N. Jensen

Vladimir Putin’s ten-day absence from the public eye has become the most discussed event in Russia this past month, and also highlights the country’s crisis of governance. According to Donald Jensen, resident fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations, keeping the increasingly polarized political forces under control is becoming a much harder challenge for Putin.

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The Long Winter Ahead for EU-Russia Relations

Details: 30 March 2015; Ezekiel Pfeifer

Over the past year, following the annexation of Crimea, relations between Russia and the European Union deteriorated to the point of raising the discussion of a second Cold War. Independent Russia analyst Ezekiel Pfeifer reviews the key developments of this bilateral relationship and the recent EU efforts to come up with an adequate policy for dealing with Putin’s Russia.

Details: Law

Will Russia Pay the Yukos Settlement?

Details: 26 March 2015; Haley S. Anderson

Last July, the Hague issued a ruling that the Russian government had wrongly seized the Yukos oil company from its shareholders and was required to pay restitution in the amount of $50 billion. This February, Russia appealed the court decision. Haley S. Anderson reviews the case, Russia’s arguments, and the possibility that the award will be paid.

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Andrei Piontkovsky: “Putin’s Concept of the ‘Russian World’ Threatens All Territories with a Russian Population”

Details: 24 March 2015; Leonid Martynyuk

The Institute of Modern Russia introduces a series of interviews with Russian and Western experts on the situation in Russia, its relationship with the West, and the future of its political system. In the first article of the series, Leonid Martynyuk interviews prominent Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky.

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Akhmed Zakayev: “The decision for the ‘hit list’ was made not in Grozny, but in Moscow.”

Details: 20 March 2015; Elena Servettaz

Akhmed Zakayev, political emigrant and head of the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, spoke with Elena Servettaz about his take on Boris Nemtsov’s murder and the involvement of the Chechen “North” battalion fighters, about the relationship between Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin and the so-called “hit list” of the Russian opposition.

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