Marlene Laruelle

Marlene Laruelle is associate director at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. She is also co-director of PONARS Eurasia, and the author of several books on Russian and Central Asian politics and society.

Kazakhs are wary of neighbours bearing gifts

We asked ordinary people in Kazakhstan which great power they liked most. Despite its assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, China didn’t do so well.

By Marlene Laruelle, Gerard Toal, John O’Loughlin and Kristin M. Bakke

/ 30 Apr 2020

Kazakhs are wary of neighbours bearing gifts

Russia’s Mediterranean call: from Kerch to Palmyra, but without Constantinople?

How the Russian authorities are justifying the military’s pivot to the south east.

By Marlene Laruelle

/ 9 Nov 2018

Putinism as Gaullism

There are limits of defining a regime by the name of its leader, but Putinism has the echoes of post-war France, and of its president.

By Marlene Laruelle

/ 21 Feb 2017

Putin, Crimea and the legitimacy trap

The Kremlin sees events in Ukraine through the prism of its own domestic politics and is anxious to prevent the type of democrats-and-nationalists alliance that brought down Yanukovych. Its actions in Crimea may be shoring up its nationalist credentials at home but the fall-out could be more dange

By J.Paul Goode and Marlene Laruelle

/ 13 Mar 2014