Russia’s Great Transformational Failure
(Tablet Magazine) Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera. The collapse of the Soviet system led to a period…
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Maria Snegovaya
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Walsh School of Foreign Service; Fellow, Illiberalism Studies Program
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Georgetown University; George Washington University
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Democratic Backsliding, Populist Actors (in East Central Europe), Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy, Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Russia’s Crumbling Power Vertical: Decreasing Disposable Income Drives Discontentment
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Accumulating evidence points at prospects of growing destabilization at the regional level in Russia. In 2019, five consecutive years of economic stagnation ignited a wave of…