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Special Issue: Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform: The Politics of Institutionalizing the Status-Quo

(Russian Politics) The articles in this issue explore the longer-term implications of Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform process. Assessing constitutional change from different theoretical and empirical approaches, these authors find that…

Kremlin turned carnivorous

Gel’man: After the mass anti-government protests in 2011 and 2012, the Kremlin turned carnivorous

(Washington Post) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has started to rely more on repression as a central tool, culminating in the arrest of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny and Saturday’s crackdown on protesters. It’s not unusual for autocratic…

Russia’s opaque digitalisation

Russia’s opaque digitalisation

(Riddle) At the 2018 Gaidar Forum, an annual gathering of Russian experts and reformist officials, participants were asked to vote on their preferred methods of public control over the state. Digital platforms turned…

The Politics of Fear: How the Russian Regime Confronts Its Opponents

(Russian Social Science Review) Abstract: The article attempts to analyze the mechanisms of political control used by the Kremlin vis-à-vis its rivals. Russian authorities had opted the politics of fear, which include…

Friday, October 9: Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia with Duvanova, Gel’man, Sharafutdinova, and Twigg

Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week. Featuring: Dinissa…

Gelman: The poisoning sends a warning signal to local supporters

(Bloomberg) We will probably never know for certain who ordered tainted tea for the Kremlin’s most vocal critic. Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption campaigning has made him a long list of enemies, and a dark undercurrent of violence is never far…

Gelman: The poisoning of Navalny may be connected with events in Belarus

(Pledge Times) Russian opposition leader, activist and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Alexei Navalnyi, 44, is a real “stick under the skin” for an influential district in the Kremlin. In recent years,…

The Russian coronavirus test

(Riddle) The global COVID-19 pandemic has become a stress test for all countries. It clearly exposes both their strengths and weaknesses. For many, including developed countries, the condition of the national…

Gelman: Neither the president nor the prime minister would like to take responsibility for the coronavirus response

(RFE/RL) There he was, riding down the escalator at one of Russia’s leading infectious disease hospitals alongside Vladimir Putin as the president toured the facility and its preparations for the coronavirus…

Gelman: Preserving the political status quo and Putin’s authority is seen in the constitutional reform

(IMR) In an interview with IMR, political scientist Vladimir Gelman, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg and the University of Helsinki, discusses the origins of Russia’s bad governance,…

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