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By Joel C. Moses (jmoses@iastate.edu, jcmoses23@gmail.com) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here Elections for 16 Russian governors in the 85 regions of the country were contested on September 10, 2017. They were held in conjunction with nationwide local and regional elections that have taken place annually on the second Sunday of September since…

By Chiara Loda (@ChiaraLoda) This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here In the last months, Armenia has been remarkably active in developing and enhancing its international ties. However, Russia has not stopped keeping in check its “small brother”. Armenia’s sudden withdrawal from NATO’s Agile Spirit exercise in Georgia is illustrative of the pressures…

By Petra Stykow This post was originally published in Presidential Power and is available here On 2 September 2016, 78-year-old President Islam Karimov was officially announced dead. Having ruled Uzbekistan since 1989, Karimov orchestrated the smooth passage of Central Asia’s most populous nation of 31m from a Soviet republic to a highly personalist regime that was consistently ranked…