English Media

• “Russian Identity and War Support,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #901, June 14, 2024
• “America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia,” Foreign Affairs, March 6, 2024 (with Max Bergmann, Michael Kimmage, and Jeffrey Mankoff)
• “Putin the Ideologue. The Kremlin’s Mix of Nationalism, Grievance, and Mythmaking,” Foreign Affairs, November 16, 2023 (with Michael Kimmage, and Jade McGlynn)
• “Russia Is Shrugging Off Sanctions,”  Foreign Policy, November 13, 2023 (with John V.C. Nye)
• “Russia’s Great Transformational Failure,” Tablet, September 29, 2022
• “Vladimir Putin Often Backs Down,”  Foreign Policy, July 8, 2022 (with Brian Whitmore)
• “They Are from the Soviet Union: How Putin’s Elite Nomenklatura Origins Led to War,” the Insider, May 6, 2022
• “Will Putin Outlast the War?,”  Journal of Democracy, April 7, 2022
• “Why Russians Support Putin’s War Against Ukrainians,” the National Interest, March 14, 2022
• “Why Is Putin Acting Now?,”  Foreign Policy, January 26, 2022
• “Russia’s Ever-Shifting Red Lines in Ukraine,” the National Interest, December 3, 2021
• “Russia’s Latest Crackdown on Dissent Is Much More Sweeping Than Ever Before,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, August 26, 2021
• “How the Kremlin Continued Its Social Media Influence Campaign in the United States in 2020,” the LSE US Centre’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy, February 18, 2021
• “What It Would Take for Russia’s Millennials to Topple Putin,”  Foreign Policy, October 6, 2020 (with Denis Volkov and Stepan Goncharov)
• “If Putin Sends Troops to Belarus, Don’t Expect Russians to Applaud,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, September 15, 2020
• “Was Navalny’s Poisoning Business as Usual—Or a Turning Point for Russia?,” Newsweek, September 9, 2020
• “The Coronavirus Could Hit Putin Most of All,” Foreign Policy, June 5, 2020 (with Denis Volkov and Stepan Goncharov)
• “A Backward Looking Nation: WWII Memory as a Consensus Building Event in Today’s Russia,” CEPA, May 11, 2020
• “Putin’s Response to Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and the Pandemic,” CEPA, April 4, 2020
• “Russia’s Presidential Transition. An Iranian-Kazakh Hybrid,” CEPA, January 15, 2020
• “Russia Is Eyeing Belarus—and It Might Spark a Conflict with The West Far Sooner Than Ukraine,” Newsweek, April 4, 2019
• “When Left-Leaning Parties Support Austerity, Their Voters Start to Embrace the Far Right,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, November 20, 2018
• “Here’s How We Know Sanctions Against Russia Are Working,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, August 6, 2018
• “Why Did Russia Poison One of Its Ex-Spies in Britain?” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, March 30, 2018
• “The Economic Origins of Populist Support,” the American Interest, February 22, 2018
• “Russia’s Election: New Faces, but No Real News,” the National Interest, January 24, 2018
• “Russian Propaganda In Germany: More Effective Than You Think,” the American Interest, October 17, 2017
• “The New Generation of Russian Dissenters,” the National Interest, June 15, 2017
• “Russian and America Media Polarization: Where It Comes From, Where It’s Going,” the National Interest, March 29, 2017
• “Russians At Home and In America Expect Trump to Deliver – But on What Depends,” the Huffington Post, January 28, 2017
• “Russian Reactions To Hacking Accusations And Sanctions Follow A Traditional Pattern: Deny Then Distort,” the Huffington Post, January 5, 2017
• “Russian Hacking May Have Helped Trump Win, but Russians Don’t Really Care,”, the Huffington Post, December 16, 2016
• “Russia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections: Missed Opportunities,” the National Interest, September 23, 2016
• “The Olympics Surrender to Russia on Doping,” the National Interest, August 10, 2016
• “The DNC Hack Is Just One Instance of the Kremlin Meddling in Western Politics,” the Huffington Post, August 1, 2016
• “Russia’s Newest Weapon Is Blind Patriotism,” the National Interest, July 7, 2016
• “Russia’s Liberals in the Crosshairs,” the National Interest, May 22, 2016
• “If the West Doesn’t Act on Ukraine Reform, the Country Could Break Down,” the Huffington Post, April 6, 2016
• “Putin Can’t Last Forever. Will a Post-Putin Russia Look Like Syria Today?” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, March 16, 2016
• “What Explains the Sometimes Obsessive Anti-Americanism of Russian Elites?” the Brookings Institution, February 23, 2016
• “Here’s What Russians Really Think About the War in Syria,” the Huffington Post, December 17, 2015
• “The Implications of Russia’s Mafia State,” the American Interest, December 23, 2015
• “Witnesses of Higher Oil Prices,” the American Interest, October 8, 2015
• “Petrostate Politics: A Tale of Oil and Aggression (Op-Ed),” the Moscow Times, October 15, 2015
• “‘Reflexive Control’: Putin’s Hybrid Warfare in Ukraine Is Straight Out of The Soviet Playbook,” Business Insider, September 22, 2015
• “Kremlin Is Losing the Information War (Op-Ed),” the Moscow Times, September 17, 2015
• “Will Putin Roar Again?” the Brookings Institution, July 8, 2015
• “National Identity Crises Threaten World Order,” the Moscow Times, Moscow, May 17, 2015
• “Putin Hits His Base Where It Hurts,” Politico Europe, May 4, 2015
• “U.S. Adviser Warns That Russia Is Sapping World Order: Interview with Charles Hill,” the Moscow Times, April 27, 2015
• “Political Assassinations Show Russia’s Weakness,” the Moscow Times, April 13, 2015
• “Think of Russia as an Ordinary Petrostate, not an Extraordinary Superpower,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, March 9, 2015
• “The People Have Spoken: No More Democracy!” the Moscow Times, February 24, 2015
• “Domestic Costs Are Rising for Mr. Putin,” the American Interest, February 19 2015
• “Is Russia a New China?” Eurasia Outlook Carnegie Moscow Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2015.
• “Anti-Western Sentiment as the Basis for Russian Unity,” Eurasia Outlook, Carnegie Moscow Center Carnegie, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014.
• “Ukraine-Russia: A Battle of Futures,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, April 15, 2014. Coauthored with Akos Lada
• “How Putin’s Worldview May Be Shaping His Response in Crimea,” the Monkey Cage (Political Science Blog), the Washington Post, March 2, 2014
• “The Russian Sanctions Are Working: Putin Can’t Keep Buying Popularity,” the New Republic, October 29, 2014
• “Russians Still Support Ukraine’s Rebels Despite the Malaysia Airlines Disaster,” the New Republic, July 21, 2014
• “Putin Is Behaving in Ukraine Like Milosevic Did in Serbia,” the New Republic, June 19, 2014. Coauthored with Vera Mironova
• “Despite Pro-Russian Protests, Majority of Ukrainians Lean Toward Europe,” the New Republic, April 14, 2014
• “Face It: The West is Already “Accepting” Putin’s Actions,” the New Republic, March 19, 2014
• “Russia’s Crimean Invasion Is the Beginning of War in Ukraine”, the New Republic, March 11, 2014
• “The EU Provoked Putin, Not NATO,” the Huffington Post, September 16, 2014
• “Ukraine’s Crisis Is Not the West’s Fault,” the Moscow Times, September 15, 2014
• “Opinion: Putin is Replaceable,” the Moscow Times, August 18, 2014
• “Ukraine Suffers from Too Much Democracy,” the Moscow Times,  July 31, 2014
• “Opinion: The Ukrainian Nation Has Been Born,” the Moscow Time, June 1, 2014
• “Tight Autocracies and Disorderly Democracies,” the Moscow Times, October 18, 2013
• “Ramping Up Rights for the Disabled in Russia”, Harvard Kennedy School Review, Volume 10, 2009-10