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Russian Environmentalism During the War
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)The topic of this issue is Russian Environmentalism During the War. Maria Tysiachniouk analyzes the changing dynamics of the environmental NGO community in Russia, reflecting on the complex interplay between state control, international collaboration, and grassroots activism; Maria Chiara Franceschelli explores the complex interplay between environmentalism, center-periphery relations, and ethnonationalism in Russia during both peacetime ...Journal Issue -
Impact of Russia’s War on Ukrainian Agriculture
(2024)Ukrainian Analytical DigestThe topic of this issue is Impact of Russia’s War on Ukrainian Agriculture. Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter make an interim assessment of the financial consequences of the war-related damages and losses in Ukrainian agriculture; Alexander Mkrtchian and Daniel Müller used Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to estimate the extent of abandoned croplands on both sides of the front line after the onset of war. A section with export statistics rounds ...Journal Issue -
Russia’s Role in the South Caucasus and Central Asia
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue examines Azerbaijan’s and Uzbekistan’s evolving relationship with Russia amidst significant geopolitical changes: Rail Safiyev explores Azerbaijan’s strategic maneuvering in the wake of its military success in Karabakh, highlighting its balancing act between ties with the West and maintaining good relations with Russia against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Firdavs Kobilov shifts the focus to Uzbekistan, analyzing ...Journal Issue -
Iran and the South Caucasus after the Second Karabakh War
(2024)Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)The papers in this issue address the regional dynamics following the Second Karabakh War of 2020. Iran has found itself having more and more of a foot in the South Caucasus as a result. The prospects and modalities of the so-called ‘Zangezur Corridor’ (a proposed land connection between Azerbaijan proper and its exclave of Nakhchivan/Nakhichevan) include economic, geopolitical, strategic, cultural, and ideological components, perceived ...Journal Issue -
Indoctrination
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue looks at the impact of indoctrination in schools and universities. Eugenia Nazrullaeva et al. discuss Russian indoctrination in comparative perspective. Allyson Edwards examines youth indoctrination through the case study of Yunarmiya. In a republished interview, Andrei Yakovlev tells the post-Soviet story of the Higher School of Economics from an insider’s perspective. Nikolai Petrov presents the results of a recent study ...Journal Issue -
Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue deals with Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy. Nina Poussenkova explores the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian oil sector since February 24, 2022; Irina Mironova provides an overview of the current situation in the Russian natural gas sector; finally, Martin Jirušek assesses the stability and security of the EU’s gas supply portfolio after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the EU’s subsequent focus ...Journal Issue -
Urban Borderlands: Difference, Inequality, and Spatio-Temporal In-Betweenness in Cities
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Negotiations, Security, and EU-Integration
(2024)Ukrainian Analytical DigestIn this issue, Volodymyr Fesenko examines the paradoxes and prospects for negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. His analysis is complemented by survey data on what Ukrainians actually think about negotiations. Yuliia Kurnyshova discusses whether shared threat perceptions between Ukraine and the West will accelerate Ukraine's integration into the EU and NATO. And André Härtel considers whether Ukraine and the EU are ready ...Journal Issue -
Taking Russia to Court
(2023)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue focuses on legal options for holding Russia accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine. In the first analysis, Gleb Bogush summarizes investigations and possible legal options, such as a special international tribunal to prosecute Russian crimes. In the second analysis, Monika Nalepa and Thomas Remington show how transitional justice principles could be used in post-war Russia with a view to restoring relations with the West.Journal Issue