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Moscow’s Three University Pipelines for Drone War

Maksym Panchokha on how Russian universities feed the country’s drones and military through three distinct tracks
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Authors
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    Researcher specializing in Russian politics, historical memory, and the political economy of war. Economics and Global & International Studies, Bard College
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    Expert on Iran, Islamism and Russia’s foreign policy in the Middle East, author of the book «Iran for Everyone: Paradoxes of Life in an Autocracy under…
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