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.
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Published in: oDR: InvestigationKazakhs 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...
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Published in: oDRRussia’s Mediterranean call: from Kerch to Palmyra, but without Constantinople?
How the Russian authorities are justifying the military’s pivot to the south east.
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Published in: oDRPutinism 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...
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Published in: oDRPutin, 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...