Contagious Tales of Russian Origin and Putin’s Evolution

Gatov, Vasily

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“…The behavior of the others shows their hypocrisy and evil goals. 16 This, it may be reasoned, is a continuation of the idea, popular in the nineteenth century, that Russian culture is exceptional and pure, while that of the West is debased and degenerated. 17…”

Section: Vladimir Putin's Grand Strategymentioning

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The Suwalki GAP dilemma: A strategic and operational analysis

Scholtz

2020

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This article reports on a theoretical analysis about a series of events that will hopefully never take place. Should Russia ever decide to invade the Baltic republics, the obvious invasion route would be from Russian territory into Estonia and Latvia, and perhaps also from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad into Lithuania. Authoritative war games have found that Russian forces could reach the three Baltic capitals within 36-60 hours. NATO has decided on a counterstrategy, stationing 5 000 troops in the three republics and Poland, as well as establishing a rapid reaction force of 13 000 troops, capable of being at the front in a week. Nevertheless, this article argues that this is probably insufficient. These troops will have to move through the so-called Suwalki Gap (80 kilometres wide) between Kaliningrad and Belarus, a close Russian ally, which could be closed by a determined Russian push. The article ends with a war scenario, which shows that any clash could rapidly escalate into a general war.

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Section: Vladimir Putin's Grand Strategymentioning

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The Suwalki GAP dilemma: A strategic and operational analysis

Scholtz

2020

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Legitimizing Putin’s Regime

Malinova

2022

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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This article follows the transformations of the official narrative about Russia’s post-Soviet transition over 20 years of Putin’s stay in power. To detect how the gradual evolution of political regime toward authoritarianism was legitimized, it focuses on comparison of concise narratives articulated in the Presidential Addresses to the Federal Assembly between 2000 and 2020. The method of research is computer-assisted qualitative content analysis. The article reveals how the declared stages of modern Russia’s development correlated with the evolving representations of the West. The initial goals of establishing democracy, the market economy, and the rule of law over time were either reinterpreted or dissolved into minor practical tasks. The most often articulated policy goal was raising the people’s living standards, which was narrated as overcoming the trauma of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the hard 1990s. In the Addresses, Russia became represented as a country that completed its transition between 2012 and 2018, with restoring its international positions and military strength, as well as resources for better social welfare. The “democratic society” was declared to be instituted; however, this term was associated with formal elections and facilitating civic participation, not with the alternation and accountability of power.

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Contagious Tales of Russian Origin and Putin’s Evolution

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The Suwalki GAP dilemma: A strategic and operational analysis

The Suwalki GAP dilemma: A strategic and operational analysis

Legitimizing Putin’s Regime

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