Section: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA)
Russia in the Balkans After Ukraine: A Troubling Actor
Russia has proven that it knows how to be a master of distraction and how to take advantage of ethnic cleavages, bolster hardline nationalist politicians, and complicate the region’s lagging reform agendas. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Kazakhstan’s Snap Presidential Election: A Shot at Democratization?
The war in Ukraine has enabled Kazakhstan’s Tokayev to reinvent himself as a truly independent figure, no longer reliant on either his predecessor Nazarbayev or Russia’s Putin. Now Tokayev hopes to cement this status by securing a popular mandate to rule. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Why Is Russia Jeopardizing the Ukraine Grain Deal?
Given Ukraine’s successful counterattack, the fighting there isn’t going Russia’s way. Nor is the gas supply situation in Europe nearly as grim as Russian propaganda makes out. In these circumstances, Putin finds he does not have so many ways of putting pressure on the West at his disposal. Threatening to torpedo the grain deal...
Ukraine’s Oligarchs Are a Dying Breed: The Country Will Never Be the Same
It’s true that Ukraine’s oligarchs corrupted the Ukrainian state and undermined effective reform and development, preventing it from escaping from its post-Soviet stagnation. But they were also a key protective mechanism against anyone else usurping power. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
My Country, Right or Wrong: Russian Public Opinion on Ukraine
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. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The Paradox of the Russia-China Relationship
Moscow is more beholden to Beijing than it was prior to its invasion of Ukraine. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
After Ukraine, Is Kazakhstan Next in the Kremlin’s Sights?
A social media post by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warning that northern Kazakhstan could be next in line after Ukraine was quickly taken down, but it reflects the mindset of Russian hawks and is entirely in keeping with Russian political dialogue, where few taboos remain. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for...
War in Ukraine Has Sparked a New Race to Succeed Putin
Would-be candidates to take over from Putin are currently employing one of two opposing strategies: loud gestures or deafening silence. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Transdniestria, Moldova, and Russia’s War in Ukraine
Russia has raised the prospect of using Transdniestria to open a second front against Ukraine and to pressure Moldova. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Traitors in the Ranks: Zelensky Purges Ukraine’s Security Services
Zelensky is determined to get the siloviki under the political control of his administration, regardless of any accusations that he is usurping power. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for International...
