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Tomila Lankina

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Regionalism, Federalism, Governance, Russia, India, China, Legacies of Colonialism and Empire, Democratization
Putin, Russia, and the moral imperative of the West
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Putin, Russia, and the moral imperative of the West

  • January 25, 2021
  • Tomila Lankina
(LSE) Imagine a world stripped of the basic elements of human decency, honesty, and honour, a world where the primordial instinct of greed, accumulation, avarice, and lust for endless power trumps…
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Protest in Space, Among Social Groups and In Time: Towards an Historically Informed Agenda of Studying Urban Discontent in Autocracies

  • May 26, 2020
  • Tomila Lankina
(APSA-CP) Urban protest has been a subject of burgeoning scholarship on regime vulnerabilities and resilience in autocracies (Onuch 2015, 2014; Lorentzen 2013; King et al. 2013; Rød and Weidmann 2015; Beissinger…
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Protest in Electoral Autocracies: A New Dataset

  • January 2, 2020
  • Tomila Lankina
(Post-Soviet Affairs) (Co-authored with Katerina Tertytchnaya) A growing literature explores the causes and consequences of dramatic political protests in autocracies. Yet, we know comparatively little about other forms of protests…
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Pre-Revolutionary Estates, Modernization, and Political Contestation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

  • March 30, 2018
  • Tomila Lankina
Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics) and Alexander Libman (University of Munich) discuss their research project on Pre-Revolutionary Estates, Modernization and Political Contestation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Lankina Podcast .mp3 Episode…
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Boris Yeltsin’s Surprise Resignation [AUDIO]

  • January 12, 2018
  • Tomila Lankina
(BBC) On the last day of 1999, Boris Yeltsin went on national television to apologize for his failures and to announce his resignation, taking the world by surprise. Tomila Lankina reflects on…
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Project: Political Mobilization and Democracy | Featured: Russian media’s coverage of protests in Ukraine

  • January 8, 2018
  • Tomila Lankina
The project investigates the dynamics of popular mobilization in Russia and the other post-Soviet countries and explores wider questions of national and sub-national democracy, authoritarianism, and geopolitical orientations in the…
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Не все негативно: Гибкое освещение протестов в российских СМИ как стратегия выживания режима

  • February 8, 2017
  • Tomila Lankina
Ученые продолжают обсуждать, раскачают ли режим президента Владимира Путина экономические потрясения и общественное недовольство внутри страны и изоляция за рубежом. По большей части рассуждения о путинских стратегиях выживания сосредотачивается на…
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It’s Not All Negative: Russian Media’s Flexible Coverage of Protest as a Regime Survival Strategy

  • November 15, 2016
  • Tomila Lankina
(PONARS Policy Memo) Pundits continue to debate whether economic shocks, public discontent at home, and isolation abroad will shake President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Much of the commentary on Putin’s survival…
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Russian citizens owe it to Boris Nemtsov to keep the hope of democracy in Russia alive

  • March 3, 2015
  • Tomila Lankina
(LSE Blogs) I first heard of Boris Nemtsov when I was a young Russian graduate student in America in the mid-1990s contemplating pursuing a PhD in Russian regional politics. For a…
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Осмеливающиеся протестовать: Когда, почему и как граждане России участвуют в уличных протестах

  • September 22, 2014
  • Tomila Lankina
Беспрецедентные по своим масштабам российские протесты декабря 2011 – марта 2012 гг. стали неожиданностью даже для самых проницательных экспертов по российской политике. Были ли эти протесты всего лишь всплеском на…
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