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Alina Vladimirova

Author - Alina V. Vladimirova, Vice-chair of Research Committee on Political Power of International Political Science Association. Her main scientific interests are different faces of power in global affairs, empirical analysis of political power and approaches to multi-method political research. She teaches courses in political science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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August 3, 2017

Six months of fighting for a new package of targeted sanctions against Russia ended up on August 2 with the President of the United States Donald Trump signing the "The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" in the edition…

March 5, 2017

In U.S., national media love presidents. U.S. local and regional media love them even more. Media studies affirm this characteristic of American political communications. Since 1953 about twice as many stories were favorable to the president as were…

June 20, 2016

According to the “The Soft Power 30” index published on June 14, Russia made it to the 27th place. Jonathan McClory admits that it can be quite surprising. However, he argues that Russia is a diplomatic powerhouse with unique capabilities…