Ryhor Nizhnikau | FIIA – Finnish Institute of International Affairs

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02 / 2017

One Year after the Sanctions: Is Europe ready for the Belarus crisis?

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12 / 2016

Three Years after Euromaidan: Is Ukraine Still on the Reform Track?

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11 / 2016

Presidential elections in Moldova: A sad end to a once promising story

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10 / 2016

Parliamentary elections in Georgia: Stability preserved, but reforms needed

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Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Moshes, Arkady (2020). Belarus in search of a new foreign policy: Why it is so difficult. Danish Foreign Policy Review:48-72.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Russia A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2020). Two sticks, half a carrot: external and domestic divisions in the post-Soviet space. In Dimitry Kochenov and Justin Lindeboom ed(s): Kälin and Kochenov’s Quality of Nationality Index. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

B Non-refereed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Moshes, Arkady (2019). A mixed record: Assessing Ukraine’s domestic reforms under Volodymyr Zelenskiy. EUROPP, 12.12.

Ukraine E Publications intended for the general public

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2019). Modernisti vanha. Ulkopolitiikka, 56 (4):88.

D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2019). Moldova has a new government, but its political crisis is far from over. The Globe Post, 10.7.

Moldova Russia E Publications intended for the general public

Moshes, Arkady & Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2018). A partnership not in the making: Ukrainian-Belarusian relations after the Euromaidan. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo. PONARS Eurasia.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Post-Soviet Space Russia Ukraine D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2018). EU induced institutional change in post-Soviet space: promoting reforms in Moldova and Ukraine. London and New York: Routledge.

C Scientific books (monographs)

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2018). Väkivaltahallinto venäläisittäin. Ulkopolitiikka, 55 (2):87.

Russia D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Bedford, Sofie (2017). The same but different: “Re-understanding” elections in contemporary post-Soviet space. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 25 (4):337-359.

Post-Soviet Space B Non-refereed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). Guiding voice to exit: Elections of sitz-chairman in Moldova, Inc.. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 25 (4):361-380.

Moldova A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Bedford, Sofie & Nizhnikau, Ryhor ed(s) (2017). Elections 2016: Political dynamics in post-soviet space. Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University.

C Scientific books (monographs)

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). Kameran takana on oligarkki. Ulkopolitiikka, 3:66-69.

D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). The Commonwealth of Independent States Region. In Kochenov, Dimitry ed(s): Quality of Nationality Index 2nd Edition. Ideos Verlag AG. 207-211.

Post-Soviet Space Russia D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). The political backlash against anticorruption reforms in Ukraine. Baltic Rim Economies Review (2):49.

D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). Externally induced institutional change in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood: migration and environment reforms in Ukraine and Moldova in 2010-2015. Tarto: Tartu University Press.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Moldova Ukraine G Theses

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2016). Empowerment of domestic stakeholders: From outcome-oriented to process-oriented Europeanization in the ENP countries. In Sieglinde Gstöhl; Simon Schunz ed(s): Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy . London: Routledge.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Europe European Union Ukraine A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2016). The invisible battlefield in the Belarusian media space: Fighting “Russkii Mir” from within? In Mikhail Suslov; Mark Bassin ed(s): Eurasia 2.0: Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media. Lexington Press. 209-224.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). Promoting reforms in Moldova: EU-induced institutional change in the migration and environmental protection sectors. Problems of Post-Communism, 64 (2):106-120.

Moldova A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Alvari, Niko (2016). Ice hockey World Championship in Belarus: Political context. In Andrey Makarychev; Aleksandra Yatsyk ed(s): Mega-events in post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting borderlines of inclusion and exclusion. New York: Palgrave McMillan. 79-97.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2016). When Goliath meets Goliath: How Russia and the EU created the vicious circle of instability in Moldova. Global Affairs, 2 (2):203-216.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood European Union Moldova Russia A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2015). Promoting institutional change in the eastern neighbourhood: Cases of the environment protection and migration sectors in Ukraine. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 15 (4):495-517.

Climate governance EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Ukraine A Peer-reviewed scientific articles