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New openings 新机会

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X21997354

Nicholas Michelsen

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The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal 明斯克-哈巴罗夫斯克的关系:道德的、表演的、肉体的

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20984336

A. Makarychev

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The gendered iconography of the Belarus protest 白俄罗斯抗议的性别形象

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20984334

Elizaveta Gaufman

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New Perspectives across viral time: Russia in the World 病毒时代的新视角:世界上的俄罗斯

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20972896

Nicholas Michelsen

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Russia and the world: 2020 IMEMO forecast 俄罗斯和世界:2020年IMEMO预测

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-09-16 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20954758

S. Afontsev, I. Kobrinskaya, G. Machavariany, A. Zagorski, V. Zhuravleva, I. Zviagelskaya, K. Voda, N. Kozhanov, A. Davydov, O. Davydov, S. Dmitriev, A. Lomanov, S. Lukonin, D. Malysheva, V. Mikheev, N. Rabotiazhev, I. Svistunova, I. Ibragimov, S. Kislitsin, E. Solovyev, E. Kuzmina, N. Surkov, N. Toganova, S. Utkin, A. Fedorovsky, B. Frumkin, V. Shvydko, YE Kanaev, L. Samarskaya

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The new era of confrontation: Russia and the World: 2020 IMEMO Forecast 对抗的新时代:俄罗斯与世界:2020年国际气象组织预测

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20954442

R. Sakwa

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Czech backlash against the GDPR: A small state’s mismatch between domestic and international priorities 捷克对GDPR的强烈反对:一个小国在国内和国际优先事项之间的不匹配

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20954754

Lucie Kadlecová, T. Weiss

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A country for old men: The pitfalls of conservative political analysis during crises 老年人的国家:危机期间保守政治分析的陷阱

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-09-13 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20954733

A. Reshetnikov

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The COVID-19 pandemic: Global socio-economic and geopolitical implications 2019冠状病毒病大流行:全球社会经济和地缘政治影响

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20955132

D. Sagramoso

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Pandemic projections from Moscow: The status quo reinvisioned (but not quite enough) 来自莫斯科的流行病预测:重新审视现状(但还不够)

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New Perspectives Pub Date : 2020-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/2336825x20955129

M. Kimmage

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