(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The COVID-19 pandemic hit Russia at a precarious moment marked by a global oil war and...
Policy Memos by Regina Smyth
(PONARS Policy Memo) In February 2017, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and President Vladimir Putin introduced a far-reaching plan to demolish ten percent of Moscow’s housing stock, relocate residents, and...
С появлением в России в 2011–2012 годах протестного движения «За честные выборы» (ЗЧВ) Кремль перешел к новой стратегии в отношениях между государством и обществом, целью которой было ослабление склонности к...
(PONARS Policy Memo) In the wake of the For Fair Elections (FFE) protest movement in Russia in...
С тех пор как в 2011-2012 гг. в России прошли протесты, связанные с состоявшимися выборами, Кремль ввел широкомасштабные изменения в юридическо-административные структуры, отвечающие за проведение выборов. Эта авторитарная версия институционализированных манипуляций...
Since Russia’s 2011-2012 post-election protests, the Kremlin has introduced wide-ranging changes to the legal-administrative structures governing elections. This authoritarian version of electoral institutional engineering is designed to sustain a core component of...
“Russia Without Putin!” Such battle cries by anti-regime protesters took sharp aim at a pillar of Russia’s electoral authoritarian regime: Vladimir Putin’s personalist link to voters. With chants of “Putin-...
Watching President Vladimir Putin field the questions of high school students in Texas, that early assessments of Putin’s chances for a long political life and autonomous political action were extremely negative seems almost implausible. In two years, Putin moved...