Lilia Shevtsova

Former  Senior Associate
Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program
Moscow Center
Shevtsova chaired the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, dividing her time between Carnegie’s offices in Washington, DC, and Moscow. She had been with Carnegie since 1995.
Education

PhD, Political Science, Academy of Social Sciences
MA, BA, History and Journalism, Moscow State Institute of International Relations

 

 

 

Languages
  • English
  • Russian
Contact Information

Latest Analysis

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    A Great Man Died

    • October 29, 2013

    Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who was the first Polish non-communist prime minister, died on October 28. He will be remembered as a Man Who Helped to Open a New Era—and not only for Poland.

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    Russia-2013: How To Blow Off Steam?

    • October 29, 2013

    Introducing visas and closing borders with Central Asian countries should not be the first steps in solving the problem of ethnic hatred in Russia. Instead, there should come a transformation of the entire Russian state, a regime change, and a resolution of the problem of the North Caucasus.

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    Germany: When Will the Ostpolitik Finally End?

    • October 22, 2013

    The negotiations on a grand coalition in the Bundestag between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democratic Party are underway, and it is not even clear who will be responsible for the foreign policy. Meanwhile, the current German policy on Russia, which has not changed regardless of who the chancellor may have been, can be summed up as follows, “Berlin must not irritate the Kremlin.”

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    How Putin Is Solving the Russian National Identity Problem

    • October 15, 2013

    The values put forward by Putin are not traditional values, but rather their imitations. These false offerings can only discredit the new values of freedom, solidarity, and mutual help that are taking root among some segments of the Russian population.

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    How Ukraine Ruins Putin’s Dream

    • October 08, 2013

    The Ukrainian elite has reached consensus on what it does not want—it does not want to be suffocated by the Kremlin’s embrace. For Putin the growing readiness of Ukraine to turn to Europe despite the formidable costs of this decision is a real disaster: his Eurasian Union cannot be a serious entity without the second large Slavic state limping along.

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    1993: Russia’s “Small” Civil War

    • October 03, 2013

    If 1991 opened opportunities for Russia, including a path toward a rule-of-law state and an open society, 1993 closed all options except one: a new system of personalized power.

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    Does the South Caucasus Have a Chance?

    • October 01, 2013

    The October elections in Azerbaijan and Georgia seem to mean different things for those two countries. In Azerbaijan, there is a continuity of Aliev rule that is moving toward sultanism. In Georgia, one could observe the end of one epoch and the beginning of another.

    • Commentary

    Oh, Angela, Why Are You Not Margaret?

    Merkel’s rule, apparently, means a break in Germany’s life due to the lack of new political elites and leaders.

    • Carnegie.ru Commentary

    Angela Merkel: Time to Take the Lead

    • September 24, 2013

    Merkel’s leadership is made up of a whole series of anti-leader qualities: attempts to put off needed decisions, not wanting to take responsibility, an emphasis on pragmatism, privatizing opponents’ ideas, and refusing to set a clear foreign policy line.

    • Commentary

    Navalny's Moral Victory Puts Kremlin In a Bind

    • September 18, 2013
    • The Moscow Times

    The authorities took a new approach in the Moscow election by allowing opposition candidate Navalny to participate without the possibility of winning. But Navalny won a moral victory and became an opposition leader with a national reputation.

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