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Oil’s Well in Central Asia: China, Kazakhstan, and Russia Make a Deal
Foreign Affairs. 2015.
As NATO, a guarantor of stability, retreats west, Central Asian states have become increasingly vulnerable to external and internal pressures. China and Russia see this as an opportunity to play chess in a sophisticated game to win influence in Central Asia
Паникар М. М., Polar Journal 2026
The article attempts to explore the process of formation of a new sphere of relations between the USSR and the countries of the Arctic region in the period from 1986 to 1990. The April Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1985 laid the groundwork for a profound transformation in both the domestic and ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Кровицкая А. В., Попов Д. И., Кравченко А. А. et al., Judaic-Slavic Journal 2024 № 11-12 С. 133–186
The collective research deals with the representation of the Holocaust memory in the media of Central-Eastern and Northern Europe in the second decade of the XXI century on the example of Germany, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Each of these states, the article argues, is characterized by its own distinct memory ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Попов Д. И., Балтийский регион 2025 Т. 17 № 4 С. 68–83
The study examines the image of Russia in Finland’s historical policy in the context of the country’s accession to NATO. The aim is to identify shifts in the interpretation of Russia’s role in the Finnish political elite’s understanding of its own past, shared Russian–Finnish and global history. To this end, the analysis focuses on President ...
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Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Сравнительная политика 2025 Т. 16 № 3 С. 4–29
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Balashov D., Антиномии 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 27–48
The movement of effective altruism, which emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, represents a new form of utilitarian philosophy that has had a significant impact on Anglo-American philosophical thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. A key feature of effective altruism is its emphasis on practicality. The movement positions itself as an entity ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Balashov D., Человек 2026 Т. 37 № 2 С. 135–150
One of the most discussed approaches to understanding morality in science and philosophy in recent years has been the social intuitionist model of morality by the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt. The author has created a complex concept consisting of several large parts logically connected to each other, each of which deserves special attention. The first ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Kazun A. D., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 192–215
This article examines how Russians conceptualize the groups most vulnerable to fake news. Drawing on 119 semi-structured interviews conducted in spring 2024, I find clear evidence of the third-person effect: participants believe that disinformation primarily threatens “others” who differ from them on salient dimensions. Age is the most common basis for dividing society into “us” ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Krasnyak O., Вестник МГИМО Университета 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 24–46
This article examines European Union science diplomacy as an instrument of external action aimed at strengthening the EU’s international actorness, strategic autonomy, and
technological sovereignty. It argues that EU science diplomacy is undergoing a significant
transformation: from a liberal-normative model centered on international scientific cooperation, soft power, and global public goods toward a more strategic and geopolitical ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Милькова А. А., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2026 Т. 20 № 1 С. 104–114
The article is devoted to strategic narratives about the international system in the foreign policy dis-course of the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. An analysis of their evolution revealed the growing influence of Chinese political thought in shaping the modern world order, which is a topic of great academic and practical ...
Added: May 6, 2026
Kashin V., Smirnova V., Yankova A., Россия в глобальной политике 2026 Т. 24 № 3 С. 198–215
С начала 2020-х гг. КНР приступила к реализации серии мероприятий мобилизационного характера, по своей системности и размаху не имеющих аналогов в мировой практике, по крайней мере, с начала 1970-х гг., а в некоторых аспектах, возможно – со времён подготовки СССР ко Второй мировой войне. ...
Added: May 6, 2026
Федосейкин Д. И., Pomiguev I., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2025 Т. 19 № 4 С. 64–73
The budget process serves as a vivid example of the political struggle between political actors, resulting in the redistribution of public resources. It most clearly demonstrates all the features of the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches, which can be considered in a comparative perspective. One of the most interesting areas in ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Baklanov A., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 1 С. 207–233
The article analyses the current stage of development in relations between the European Union and the countries of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These relations have a long and complex history, and today are undergoing further transformation and adaptation to the realities of the emerging multipolar world order. The article seeks to identify ...
Added: May 4, 2026
Diskin E., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2026 № 1 С. 144–169
The article analyzes the introduction of the national messenger Max into the system of electronic interaction between citizens and the state in the Russian Federation. Federal Law No. 156 of June 24, 2025 established the legal framework for integrating the messenger into the unified ecosystem of government digital services, including the Unified Identification and Authentication ...
Added: May 1, 2026
Гацковская В. А., Курбатов Д. М., Международная аналитика 2025 № 16(4) С. 158–170
The article analyzes the political discourse (including expert and media discourse) in post-socialist
Central and Eastern European countries regarding the 2024 Russian presidential election.
The authors consider the discourse on Russian electoral processes as a tool for constructing
European identity based on the “friend-foe” divide. The study aims to identify the influence of
domestic political processes in Russia on ...
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Strokan M., The Diplomat 2023
The article analyzes the Trilateral Gas Union proposal and its benefits for Russia and Central Asia. ...
Added: September 9, 2024
Strokan M., The Diplomat 2023
The article analyzes the prospects of oil supply to the EU from Kazakhstan via Druzhba pipeline. ...
Added: September 9, 2024
Strokan M., Asian Affairs 2023 Vol. 54 No. 3 P. 498–526
In November 2022, the government of the Russian Federation proposed the creation of a “Trilateral Gas Union” with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Commentators were quick to focus on the Central Asian dimensions of the proposal, in particular the potential expansion of Russian influence in the region or Russia’s attempts to substitute exports to the region for ...
Added: September 9, 2024
Trenin D., The Moscow Times 2023
Moscow’s new grand strategy is still in gestation. It seeks to maximize connectivity with all, while putting Russia’s own interests first. Managing a large number of very different partners is difficult, but not impossible, as Moscow’s recent experience in the Middle East shows ...
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Yenikeyeff S., Economía exterior 2008 No. 46 P. 47–59
The military conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia is likely to have a major impact on the export routes for hydrocarbons from the Caspian and Central Asia ...
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Yenikeyeff S., Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2007.
The recent Russian expedition to the North Pole has highlighted the growing strategic importance of the Arctic. This comment, by Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff and Timothy Fenton Krysiek, examines the Arctic’s potential as a new hydrocarbon producing region, analyzes the Kremlin’s regional development strategy, and explains the response of the other circumpolar countries the United States, ...
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Yenikeyeff S., The International Spectator 2011 No. 46(3) P. 61–78
The geographic proximity of Central Asia to Russia, China, the Caucasus and the Caspian region, as well as to the Middle East, makes this oil and gas-producing region a crucial and ever-developing player in regional and global energy markets. The method by which Central Asian producers choose to develop their hydrocarbon resources and export infrastructure ...
Added: October 13, 2022
Kuteleva A., , in: China's Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea.: Routledge, 2021. P. 96–138.
Kazakhstan, the second-biggest oil-exporter in the former Soviet space behind Russia, is China’s key energy partner in Central Asia. Even though energy relations between China and Kazakhstan have so far been mutually beneficial and corresponded to the interests of both states, China’s expansion in Kazakhstan’s oil sector promotes a Sinophobic backlash and increasing neocolonial concerns ...
Added: August 30, 2021
Kuteleva A., , in: China's Energy Security and Relations with Petrostates: Oil as an Idea.: Routledge, 2021. P. 61–95.
This chapter explains how and with what effect China’s and Russia’s energy paradigms are manifested and enacted in their bilateral energy relations. The demand for and of imports of oil on China’s part has been rising steadily since the mid-1990s, yet Russia hesitated to enter long-term agreements with China until the end of the 2000s. ...
Added: August 30, 2021