Experts & Staff

Maria Lipman

ECFR Alumni · Former Visiting Fellow

Areas of expertise

Russia

Biography

Maria Lipman was a visiting fellow at ECFR in 2015.

What Russia thinks of Europe

Since 2014-15 “the West” has been overwhelmingly seen in Russia as an enemy seeking to undermine and destroy Russia

The undesirables

A new Russian restrictive norm puts foreign organisations under suspicion and deals a blow to Russian civil society

How Russia has come to loathe the West

In the quarter century of post-Soviet development, resentment towards the West has been accumulating to a broad, genuine and raw hatred

Russia is not Charlie

Russia’s official reaction to the French tragedy was little more than diplomatic correctness

No good economic options for Putin

Though Russia is facing a rapid economic decline, Putin continues to effectively ignore the looming recession. 

Vladimir Putin, historian-in-chief

Putin continues to blur the lines between historian and political chief, effectively and single-handedly re-writing Russia's collective history. 

Articles

What Russia thinks of Europe

Since 2014-15 “the West” has been overwhelmingly seen in Russia as an enemy seeking to undermine and destroy Russia

The undesirables

A new Russian restrictive norm puts foreign organisations under suspicion and deals a blow to Russian civil society

How Russia has come to loathe the West

In the quarter century of post-Soviet development, resentment towards the West has been accumulating to a broad, genuine and raw hatred

Russia is not Charlie

Russia’s official reaction to the French tragedy was little more than diplomatic correctness

No good economic options for Putin

Though Russia is facing a rapid economic decline, Putin continues to effectively ignore the looming recession. 

Vladimir Putin, historian-in-chief

Putin continues to blur the lines between historian and political chief, effectively and single-handedly re-writing Russia's collective history. 

Putin clamps down on freedom of travel

As the Kremlin becomes more hostile to the West, civil servants are being denied the right to travel – and ordinary citizens could be next

Podcasts

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