André Härtel is an Assistant Professor and DAAD-Lecturer for "German and European Studies" at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Prior to this he worked as a Lecturer in International Relations at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany) and as a Political Advisor at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (France). His book and PhD thesis "Westintegration oder Grauzonenszenario? Die EU- und WTO-Politik der Ukraine vor dem Hintergrund der inneren Transformation (1998-2009)" was published by LIT in 2012. He also held a research fellowship at Oxford Brookes University (UK) in 2007/2008 and had been the first coordinator of the Master Program "German and European Studies" at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2006/2007.

Guest editors: Marcin Kaczmarski is assistant professor at the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw, and the head of the China-EU Program at the Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw. His main research interests include Russia-China relations and Russian foreign policy. He is the author of Russia-China Relations in the Post-crisis International Order.

Natasha Kuhrt is a lecturer in the department of war studies at King's College London. She is the author of Russian Policy towards China and Japan: the El'tsin and Putin Periods and co-editor (with Aidan Hehir and Andrew Mumford) of International Law, Security and Ethics: Policy Challenges in the Post-9/11 World.

Introduction by Natasha Kuhrt and Marcin Kaczmarski

Anaïs Marin:
Does State Violence Translate into a More Bellicose Foreign Behavior? Domestic Predictors of International Conflict-Propensity in Post-Soviet Eurasia - full text open-access version

https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050202_02

Mischa Gabowitsch:
Russia’s Arlington? The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow - full text open-access version

https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050202_04

Hanna Smith:
Threat Perceptions: Russia in the Post-Soviet Space
Mischa Gabowitsch:
Russia’s Arlington? The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow
Danielle Jackman:
Partial Russian Justice in Chechnya: The Lapin Case, Anna Politkovskaya, and Transnational Activism

Review Article
Péter Marton and Annamária Kiss:
Chechen Combatants’ Involvement as Foreign Fighters in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq

Projects and Conferences
Olga Lebedeva:
Topography of Terror: Mapping Sites of Soviet Repressions in Moscow
Daria Mattingly and Elena Zezlina:
Conference Report: Places of Amnesia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Forgotten Pasts

Reviews
Vsevolod Samokhvalov on Rajan Menon and Eugene B. Rumer;
Kevork Oskanian on Ohannes Geukjian;
Rodric Braithwaite on Oleg V. Khlevniuk;
Kateryna Smagliy on Zuzanna Bogumił et al.;
Neil Robinson on Boris Minaev and Yeltsin Center;
Olga R. Gulina on Mark Bassin et al.;
David White on Vladimir Gel’man;
John B. Dunlop on David Satter;
Rasmus Nilsson on Marlene Laruelle;
Patrick M. Bell on Elizabeth A. Wood et al.;
Jokubas Salyga on Paul Hare and Gerard Turley