Problems that people were preoccupied with a 100 years ago. Tbf, we aren't much better.

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In episode six of our podcast on deeper trends in Russian politics, Kadri Liik, Kirill Shamiev and Sergey Radchenko look at the history of Russia’s foreign policy and what its future might be.

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One of the greatest unresolved mysteries of our times. 😉

And here it is.

I think Dmitri Alperovitch is right to draw attention to corruption as one of the most serious problems of Russia's 1990s. However, corruption does not by itself necessarily correlate with dictatorship and imperialism, although better with the former than with the latter. In other…

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In today's episode, Kadri Liik is joined by Kirill Shamiev and Sergey Radchenko to look at the history of Russia's foreign policy and what its future might be

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I can see this leading to hundreds of thousands of people living in Europe on expired passports. The EU will have to get their head around this, including the possibility of issuing documents for stateless persons. Statelessness would presumably have to be self-declared, simply…

Damn I keep getting great books in the mail. This amazing 800 page biography of Zhou Enlai by inimitable Chen Jian I have read already: it’s superb, as you’d expect.

In the spring of 2022, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators began working on the text of a treaty but failed to finalize a deal, write Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko. How close were Moscow and Kyiv to ending the war—and why did talks break down?
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