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What Decolonization?

Dan Storyev on Russia’s Enduring Dominance in Central Asia
Riddle Political News Week
Elections Without Nadezhdin
Andrey Pertsev’s weekly political roundup (July 13−17)
Andrey Pertsev’s weekly political roundup (July 13−17)
By Andrey Pertsev
Riddle Economic News Week
Compared to what?
Nicholas Trickett’s economic summary of the week (July 13 — 17)
Nicholas Trickett’s economic summary of the week (July 13 — 17)
By Nicholas Trickett
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Authors
  • Dan Storyev

    Journalist. Author, How to Survive Authoritarianism
  • Nikita Smagin

    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…
  • Ksenia Smolyakova

    Political Scientist, expert of the «Election Atlas» project
  • Vladimir Rouvinski

    Professor, Laboratory of Politics and International Relations (PoInt), Political Science Program at Icesi University (Columbia)
  • Ivan U. Klyszcz

    Research fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia
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