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Olga Gulina on the ambiguous political and economic impact of «war emigration» from Russia
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Olga Gulina looks at how tremors from the Ukraine war are rocking established interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus
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Olga Gulina on how geopolitics helps Russia to address socio-economic and demographic challenges
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Olga Gulina looks into how Eurasian countries have set about vaccinating their populations
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Olga Gulina contends that changes to Russian citizenship laws have been designed to strengthen (geo-)political influence and fix the country’s socio-demographic issues
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Olga Gulina takes stock of new talk about a visa-free regime between the EU and Russia
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Olga Gulina reports on state plans to tempt Russians from across the post soviet space to resettle within Russian borders
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Under what conditions do foreigners get classified as a threat to Russia’s national security? (Even Russia's court judges do not know.)
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European bureaucrats are wondering why citizens from Eastern Europe are still seeking asylum in the EU a quarter century on from the relatively bloodless dismantling of the USSR
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Overshadowed by immigration from the Middle East and Africa in recent years, the migration of Chechens from Russia to Europe is a topic that few discuss.