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Richard Lachmann

Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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27.02.2018
Why Is the Right Winning in Latin America?
Latin America was celebrated and reviled in the first decade of this century as the place where neoliberalism had been successfully challenged.
Richard Lachmann
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20.12.2017
Does Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Matter?
President Trump announced that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and would move the American embassy to that city from Tel Aviv.
Richard Lachmann
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10.07.2017
North Korea and the Limits of Trump’s and America’s Power
Not for the first time in the past century, Korea is the most dangerous place on Earth. Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons and missile program is making seemingly rapid progress. The July 4 test demonstrated that North Korea is getting closer to building a missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead or chemical weapons to the continental United States. Even though North Korea is not yet capable of such an attack, it almost certainly will be within the next ten years.
Richard Lachmann
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Andrei N. Lankov

Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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07.09.2020
North Korean Labor Export to the USSR/Russia
Russia will need cheap labor while North Korea will need hard currency and will produce only a small number of sellable items. So, even if all workers left Russia now (a big if), they would in all probability return, sooner or later.
Andrei N. Lankov
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24.09.2018
The Summit in Singapore and the Failure of Donald Trump’s Diplomacy
It seemed before the Singapore summit, - the meeting of the leaders of the US and North Korea, which was drawing attention of the whole international community while being prepared, that Donald Trump’s “blackmail diplomacy” proved its effectiveness. However, is it possible to consider his policy towards Pyongyang and his administration’s foreign policy a success?
Andrei N. Lankov
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09.10.2017
No Light at the End of the Tunnel
None of the possible scenarios for solving the North Korean problem—negotiations, sanctions, and a military solution—can be considered acceptable and satisfactory. This means that the United States and the whole world will likely have to coexist with a nuclear North Korea.
Andrei N. Lankov
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Viktor Larin

Director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Doctor of History and Professor at the Far Eastern Federal University.

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28.11.2017
Looking into the Future: Russia and Asia in the Next 20 Years
The Asian center of economic growth will move to the south, and the developed countries will try to adapt foreign labor migration to the needs of high-tech production.
Viktor Larin
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15.05.2017
One Belt, One Road. Russia and China Can Solve Political Problems through Economy
On May 14-15 Beijing hosted The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech spoke about prospects for cooperation with Russia in the implementation of the Chinese New Silk Road economic initiative.
Viktor Larin
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22.09.2015
Staying On Track
A trilateral dialogue between Russia, China, and the United States can become the core of a new security system in the Pacific, with other countries and territories in the region gradually joining in. Multilateral cooperation in the North Pacific is a fundamental objective. It will require a transition from the bloc system and allied relations to a multilateral format.
Viktor Larin
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Marina Larionova
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13.05.2007
Monitoring Compliance with St. Petersburg Summit Commitments
Over 32 years of its history, the G7/G8 has expanded both its agenda and institutional system, and is now appreciated as an instrument of deliberation, direction-giving and decision-making on global governance issues. It has also become a subject for criticism and reform proposals. The critique mainly focuses on the forum’s representativeness, legitimacy and effectiveness.
Marina Larionova
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Murat Laumulin

Murat Laumulin is a chief researcher at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies in Almaty. He holds a Doctorate in Political Science.

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07.10.2012
Virtual Security of Central Asia
If the new/old Russian leadership pursues integration in the military-political sphere with the same zeal as it did in the establishment of the Customs Union, the Common Economic Space and the Eurasian Union, hopefully there will be progress in the CSTO’s transformation, as well.
Murat Laumulin
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25.03.2012
Returning to a Place That No Longer Exists
Entire generations of people born in the former Soviet Union would wholeheartedly support unification, but a logical question arises: With whom are we going to unite? A country that has assimilated the worst from Western capitalism, rampant with xenophobia and domestic racism, and which is suffering from a demographic and technological decline? A country whose economy is controlled by the mafia and oligarchs?
Murat Laumulin
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Anton Lavrov

Anton Lavrov is an independent aviation analyst and an authoritative Russian researcher of the 2008 Russian-Georgian War. Originally published in: “Tanks of August,” Center of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), 2009.

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09.04.2010
After the War
Since the time when the Russian military bases were deployed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the number of conflicts and cross-border skirmishes between Georgia and the new states, which it refuses to recognize, has decreased, and their intensity has declined greatly.
Anton Lavrov
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Sergey Lavrov

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

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24.12.2019
The World at a Crossroads and a System of International Relations for the Future
Will the multipolar world continue to take shape through cooperation and harmonization of interests or through confrontation and rivalry? This depends on all of us. It is now important to start a strategic dialogue on concrete threats and risks and to seek consensus on a commonly acceptable agenda.
Sergey Lavrov
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20.09.2019
World at a Crossroads and a System of International Relations for the Future
Next year we will celebrate two great and interconnected anniversaries – the 75th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the UN. Reflecting on the spiritual and moral significance of these landmark events, one needs to bear in mind the enormous political meaning of the Victory that ended one of the most brutal wars in the history of mankind.
Sergey Lavrov
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03.07.2018
It is not Russia that is shaping this world order, it is history.
Foreign Minister S.Lavrov’s interview with Channel 4, Moscow, June 29, 2018
Sergey Lavrov
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Robert Legvold

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

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22.01.2018
Trump’s First Year in Office: the Impact Is Profound and Controversial
Donald Trump enters the second year of his presidency as one of the most controversial politicians in the US history. Opinions vary greatly, but one thing is clear: the past year has been marked by fundamental changes in the United States’ domestic and foreign policy, with many results of the previous administration virtually wiped out.
Robert Legvold, Edward Nicolae Luttwak
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06.06.2017
Into the Unknown
Russian and U.S. leaders have choices of far greater portent than either appears to realize. Narrow preoccupations, occluded politics, and the ascendance of small-minded thinking on both sides at all levels may be inescapable. If so, the great powers will again sleepwalk through defining moments of history—and pay a price.
Robert Legvold
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11.04.2017
Into the Unknown: U.S.-Russian Relations Unhinged
If the larger picture defies prediction, the immediate future is scarcely more transparent. In the U.S. case, the known unknowns are numerous. They begin with the question of how much deck furniture Trump is willing to overturn in order to pursue an “America First” strategy.
Robert Legvold
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Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Jean-Pierre Lehmann is Emeritus Professor, IMD, and Founder of the Evian Group, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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30.06.2013
Global Transformation: The Eurasian Open Economic Space
The profound transformations occurring in the global economy are inevitably causing disruption, confusion and tensions. The proposal for the establishment of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the U.S. and the EU might seriously exacerbate the situation and lead to the establishment of rival economic blocs.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
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02.03.2008
Is Free Trade Heading for Eclipse?
Rising insecurity, the uncharted and seemingly turbulent waters in which the global economic ship is heading, is occurring amidst frightening environmental degradation and climate change, apprehensions related to “identification” and immigration, the steep decline of the U.S. and the quagmire of the Middle East, the seemingly daunting industrial and financial muscle of China, rising inequality and high levels of poverty, and the fear of possible devastating pandemics.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
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Vitaly Leibin

Editor-in-chief of the Russian Reporter magazine.

Stanislaw Lem
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10.08.2004
The Times of Mars
U.S. President George W. Bush is planning to return the Americans to the Moon, and then on to Mars. But alas, the grandiose plans are less a daring desire to explore the universe than a cunning political reckoning and pre-election move.
Stanislaw Lem
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Maria Lenchenko

Political analyst.

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01.06.2020
THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND AUTOCRACY FOR THE XXI CENTURY
Russia of the future is a social Empire based on the principle of “autocracy”, not in the sense of restoring the monarchy, but in the sense of true people power, where we (Russians) led by a strong leader hold ourselves. The constitutional provision on people power is implemented through the unity of the vertical of power of the popularly elected national leader and the horizontal of power resulting from effective local self-administration. Elites are nationalized, bureaucracy is put in the service of the Fatherland and does not have political powers.
Andrej Ilnitskij, Maria Lenchenko
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Laszlo Lengyel
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24.09.2011
The Last Peaceful Days?
The economic and political crisis of 2008-2010 has had an unexpected impact by calling into question the success of the third wave of democratization in Europe.
Laszlo Lengyel
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Mark Leonard

Co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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09.09.2016
Europe Seen From the Outside — the British View
A political counter-revolution against the European Union is underway. Brexit is likely to be seen in hindsight as just the first of many tremors leading up to a larger political earthquake that will be felt all over the European continent.
Mark Leonard
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Sergey Leonidov

Sergei Leonidov is a church historian.

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16.07.2019
Baltic Rehearsal
This article has been published in a special edition of Russia in Global Affairs, May 2019 After the Soviet Union’s demise, the Ecumenical Patriarchate grew…
Igor Prekup, Sergey Leonidov
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Alexei Levinson

Alexei Levinson is head of the Sociocultural Research Department at the Levada Center.

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27.03.2011
A Smaller Empire?
Among the respondents favoring Chechen secession only a very small number believe that Chechnya should be entitled to independence by virtue of its right to self-determination. Remarkably, these respondents have Russia’s interests in mind (“It would be better for Russia”), not Chechnya’s.
Alexei Levinson
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Alexandr Libman

Alexander Libman is a professor of international political economy at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management; a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds a Doctorate in Economics.

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24.06.2012
Post-Soviet Integration Breakthrough
In the medium term, the Common Economic Space will face the dilemma of either “enlargement” or “intensification,” which is well known to Europeans. One of the main reasons behind the Customs Union’s success is that it has focused on a clear and rather narrow objective.
Evgeny Vinokurov, Alexandr Libman
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Keir Lieber
Anatol Lieven

Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He is the author among other books of America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.

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03.09.2020
The Geopolitics of Nationalism
What does international cooperation look like during the triumph of national interests? Is it possible to realize these interests without interaction? We turned to Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, and Anatol Lieven, Professor of Georgetown University in Qatar for their insight.
Andrey Kortunov, Anatol Lieven, Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Sean Guillory
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09.04.2020
The Coronavirus Holds Up a Mirror to Existing Societies: What Will They See?
The Coronavirus will make our societies gloomy. The economic crisis may drive them mad. The pandemic may in some ways help create a psychological and cultural basis for extremism by extinguishing the naïve liberal optimism about continual human improvement that has characterized the West for generations, and in a different form is also held by the Chinese Communist state. That is fine if our societies become more serious.
Anatol Lieven
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03.07.2018
Peace in Afghanistan: The Duty of Afghanistan’s Region
In the short term, the war in Afghanistan will be chiefly not a military struggle but a test of American political stamina and of the capacity of the Afghan elites to maintain a minimally consensual state in Kabul.
Anatol Lieven
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Dominic Lieven

Fellow of the British Academy; Research professor, Cambridge University.

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26.03.2020
“Russia and the rest of the world are heading into a storm”
Russia and the rest of the world are heading into a storm as dangerous as that of the first half of the 20th century and maybe even more so. But history—especially the history of the last three hundred years—is a very inadequate guide either to the challenges Russia faces or how to meet them. Sur-vival seems likely to be the key issue. By Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven, Alexander V. Solovyov
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25.12.2017
Revolution, War and Empire
Had Russia been one of the victor powers, the post-war order would have been far more stable. Had the Franco-Russian alliance survived to sustain that order, then the rise of Hitler and Europe’s descent into a second great war would very probably have been avoided.
Dominic Lieven
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18.10.2017
Revolution, War and Empire
My aim in this piece is to look at the international context of the Russian Revolution and to assess its influence on the Revolution’s causes, course and consequences.
Dominic Lieven
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