--- description: Burakovsky is Assistant Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School at Tufts University title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Arik Burakovsky ## Arik Burakovsky Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Burakovsky is Assistant Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School at Tufts University ## Arik Burakovsky Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 30, 2023 ### [How Prigozhin's Rebellion Exposes Putin's Weakening Grip](https://time.com/6291676/prigozhins-rebellion-exposes-putins-weakening-grip/) Russia likely won't plunge into chaos but Putin is looking increasingly weak [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 3, 2022 ### [Could Protests Against the Ukraine War Be Putin's Undoing?](https://time.com/6154240/russia-protests-war-ukraine-putin/) Demonstrations in Russia against the invasion of its neighbor could eventually snowball into an anti... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/arik-burakovsky/","name":"Arik Burakovsky"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/arik-burakovsky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/arik-burakovsky/"},"name":"Arik Burakovsky","jobTitle":null,"description":"Burakovsky is Assistant Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School at Tufts University","url":"https://time.com/author/arik-burakovsky/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```