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Would turnout go up if we didn’t have to vote on a workday?

Victoria Shineman - November 6, 2018

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Here’s what political science can tell us about that Trump-Putin press conference

Vanessa Lide - July 17, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/segments/watch-donald-trumps-full-news-conference-with-vladimir-putin/2018/07/16/9bc08324-891a-11e8-9d59-dccc2c0cabcf_video.html?utm_term=.4f1b7af4ff6f The joint Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki left a

Will it be ‘happy talk’ — or will Trump and Putin focus on arms control and other critical issues?

Joshua Tucker - July 13, 2018

[caption id="attachment_75621" align="aligncenter" width="960"] President Trump shakes hands with Russian

What does Putin really want? Trump’s presidency will show us.

Yuval Weber - December 28, 2016

[caption id="attachment_51837" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A billboard by a pro-Serbian movement

U.S.-Russia relations are at a real low. Here’s the diplomacy that is working.

Yury Barmin, Brittany Holom, and Alyssa Haas - November 5, 2016

[caption id="attachment_48936" align="aligncenter" width="960"] From left, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg,

Russia’s leaders are happy about Brexit, but it won’t help the regime much at home

J. Paul Goode - June 29, 2016

Before the June 2016 "Brexit" vote, British Prime Minister David

Think of Russia as an ordinary petrostate, not an extraordinary superpower

Maria Snegovaya - March 9, 2015

[caption id="attachment_22451" align="alignnone" width="620"] A monitoring instrument on the gas

Does the G-8’s suspension of Russia actually matter?

Felicity Vabulas - April 3, 2014

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5 reasons I am surprised the crisis in Crimea is escalating so quickly

Joshua Tucker - February 28, 2014

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An Arab Spring in Moscow?

John Sides - June 13, 2012

This is a guest post from Vsevolod Gunitskiy, a native