Selected news items about UPTAKE or affiliated scholars or events:
2018
- Andrey Makarychev participated in a panel discussion on Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History and Politics in Kyiv on 2 November 2018.
- Eiki Berg, Politoloog: Ukraina-Vene konflikti on veel võimalik ohjeldada [The conflict between Ukraine and Russia can still be contained], Tartu Postimees, 27.11.2018.
- Alexandra Yatsyk (Uppsala) and Andrey Makarychev (Tartu) have presented their edited volume “Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance” at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC; at the Free Russia House in Kyiv; at the Občanský institut (Civic Institute) in Prague; and at the Za wolną Rosję (For Free Russia Association) in Warsaw (video).
- Heiko Pääbo, Kuidas mõista Ukraina ajalugu? [How to understand the history of Ukraine?], Sirp, 06.07.2018.
- Stefan Hedlund, Putins giftstrategi är på god väg att lyckas. 15.03.2018.
- Viacheslav Morozov. Russia: Foreign Policy of a Country In-Between. CIPS Blog, 21.01.2018.
- Zhouchen Mao, Camille Merlen and Zachary Paikin: Reflections from the UPTAKE Workshop “Whither Liberal World Order? Challenges from Russia, Eurasia, and Beyond” on 2-3 November 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury.
2017
- Andrey Makarychev and Viacheslav Morozov were interviewed by the Russian Service of the Voice of America for the weekly programme Nastoyashchee vremia. Itogi on 2 June.
- Viacheslav Morozov, Remarks at the Roundtable of the Free Historical Society on the report “What Kind of Past Does Future Russia Need?” (in Russian), Историческая экспертиза (online, to be included in no. 3, 2017).
- Stefano Braghiroli, Эксперты: результаты выборов осложнят работу британского правительства, Актуальная камера, 09.06.2017.
- Viacheslav Morozov about the Tartu conference: Ученые со всего мира обсуждали в Тарту тему наследия советского периода, Актуальная камера, 06.06.2017.
- “Чем закончатся игры в популизм в Европе?” BBC Russian Service interview with Elena Korosteleva: The end game of populism in Europe? (in Russian), 11.01.2017.
2016
- Politoloogide hinnangul riigiduuma valimised Venemaal poliitilisi muutusi ei too, by ERR Uudised, 13.06.2016. [news about Russian Duma elections, featuring Annual Tartu Conference participants]
- ’Refuting the Everyman Mythology’, Interview with Viacheslav Morozov, online magazine INRUSSIA, 10.01.2017.
- Игорь Розенфельд: в Тарту формируется новый политологический центр Восточной Европы, Baltnews, 17.06.2016. [news about the Annual Conference]
- Därför biter inte sanktioner på Ryssland, opinion piece by Stefan Hedlund on the Russian sanctions, Svenska Dagbladet, 26.10.2016.
- Syrienkriget en rysk kamp för en ny världsordning, analysis by Fabian Linde on Russian engagement in Syria, Utrikes magasinet, October 2016.
- “Чем грозит России неисполнение решений ЕСПЧ?” BBC Russian Service interview with Elena Korosteleva: What threatens the Russian default of the ECHR decisions? (in Russian), 02.02.2016.
- Tartust võib saada Ida-Euroopa uuringute keskus, Universitas Tartuensis, June 2016 [piece about UPTAKE and the Annual Conference]
- Eestlaste koordineeritud teadusprojekte toetati enam kui seitsme miljoni euroga, ERR Novaator, 20.04.2016 [piece about successful H2020 projects in Estonia]
Selected policy papers and commentaries:
2018
- Andrey Makarychev and Aliaksei Kazharski. Europe in Crisis: “Old,” “New,” or Incomplete? PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 515, March 2018.
- Eiki Berg and Kristel Vits. The Do-or-Die Dilemma Facing Post-Soviet De Facto States, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 527, May 2018.
- Andrey Makarychev. Narva as a Cultural Borderland: Estonian, European, Russophone, Russian Analytical Digest No. 228, November 2018.
- Viacheslav Morozov, Xymena Kurowska, and Anatoly Reshetnikov. Why Russia’s Strategic Deception Is Popular: The Cultural Appeal of the Trickster, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 554, December 2018.
2017
- Braghiroli S. & Vilson M. (2017). FEUTURE EU 28 Country Report: Estonia.
- Makarychev, A. (2017). Eastern Borderlands as Europe-Makers: (How) Can neighbours redefine the EU? Understanding the EU’s Association Agreements and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.
- Makarychev, A. (2017). The Russian World, Post-Truth, and Europe, PONARS Eurasia policy memo, no 477.
- Merheim-Eyre, Igor (2017). Neither Common nor a System: Towards a functioning Common Asylum System’, GLOBSEC Policy Institute, with Hillary Briffa et al., Globsec Magazine 1/2017, pp 32-35.
- Morozov, V. (2017). Сопротивление социального материала: о конструктивизме, национализме и демократии (Resistance of Social Matter: On Constructivism, Nationalism and Democracy), Internet Magazine Gefter, http://gefter.ru/archive/22204.
- Morozov, V. (2017), interview with Intertet Magazine Gefter, http://gefter.ru/archive/22142.
2016
- Casier, T., DeBardeleben, J., Guasti, P., Niemann, A., Romanova, T. (2016), Policy Report: EU-Russia Relations: Which Way Forward?
- Korosteleva, E. (2016). The EU and Belarus: seizing the opportunity?. Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.
- Korosteleva, E. (2016). GEC survey brief ‘Belarus between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union: national values survey 2016’, Global Europe Centre.
- LSE Ideas/Dahrendorf Forum Special Report (2016) ‘Avoiding a New ‘Cold War’’, C. Nitoiu (ed.), features chapters by: Tom Casier: Why the EU-Russia Strategic Partnership could not prevent a confrontation over Ukraine; Elena Korosteleva: EU-Russia Relations in the Context of the Eastern Neighbourhood; Richard Sakwa: External Actors in EU-Russia Relations: Between Norms and Space.
- Morozov, V. (2016). “What Is the Meaning of “National” in the Russian Debate about the National Interest?”, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 414.
- Makarychev, A., Braghiroli, S. (2016). “Russia “Understanders” in Europe: Discourses, Communication, Consequences“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo 435.
- Makarychev, A. (2016). “The Limits to Russian Soft Power in Georgia“, PONARS-Eurasia Policy Memo 412.
- Merheim-Eyre, I. (2016). The New Normal: A Continental Drift or a Security Meltdown? A View from the Baltic, org, 26 May.
- Merheim-Eyre, I. (2016). Europe is Not Enough: or Why Ukraine will Soon Lose Interest in EU Visa-Free Travel, Vox Ukraine, 23 May.
- Merheim, Eyre, I. (2016). Turkey’s visa liberalisation: An insult to the EU’s eastern neighbours? EurActiv, 6 May.
- Padskocimaite, Ausra (2016). “LGBT Rights in Post-Conditionality Lithuania: One Step Forward, One Step Back,” Baltic Worlds, October 2016, Vol IX:3, pp. 4-9.
- Vilson, M. (2016). Presidential election in Uzbekistan. Baltic Worlds, December.