{"id":11406,"date":"2020-10-07T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:36:58","slug":"new-publication-russias-constitutional-changes-from-eurus-alumni-demyan-plakhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2020\/new-publication-russias-constitutional-changes-from-eurus-alumni-demyan-plakhov\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication: \u201cRussia\u2019s Constitutional Changes,\u201d from EURUS Alumni Demyan Plakhov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New Publication: \u201cRussia\u2019s Constitutional Changes,\u201d from EURUS Alumni Demyan Plakhov\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1.png 1080w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1-240x240.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Achim-Post1-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span title=\"Edited\" class=\"\">Congratulations to Demyan Plakhov, one of the EURUS MA Class of 2020, for the publication of his insightful article on the recent constitutional changes in Russia featured on the NATO Association of Canada website!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demyan carefully summarized how the new changes to the Russian constitution craftily grant more power and time to its current president, Vladimir Putin, and galvanize his support base with the promotion of religion, \u201ctraditional family values\u201d, the rejection of the LGBTQ+ community, patriotism, historic legitimacy, Russia\u2019s claims over the Kuril Islands and Crimea, and its disregard for international law. These amendments will not change Russian policy but will provide the constitutional justification for its current actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Demyan&#8217;s article on the NATO Association&#8217;s Website here: <a href=\"http:\/\/natoassociation.ca\/russias-constitutional-changes\/\">http:\/\/natoassociation.ca\/russias-constitutional-changes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Demyan Plakhov, one of the EURUS MA Class of 2020, for the publication of his insightful article on the recent constitutional changes in Russia featured on the NATO Association of Canada website! Demyan carefully summarized how the new changes to the Russian constitution craftily grant more power and time to its current president, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15693,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/15693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}