The Informational Dictator’s Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus

In Russia and throughout much of the post-Soviet space, media are now less free than at any point since the end of the Soviet Union. Authoritarian regimes across the region…

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Greene: The Kremlin has come to the conclusion that coercion is a better strategy than persuasion

(Slate) “This is not a sentence against him, but against all of us.” That’s how Ilya Klishin, a prominent Russian former journalist, described a Moscow court’s ruling yesterday sentencing opposition leader Alexei Navalny to…

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Putin’s new war on the opposition suggests he sees it as a real threat

(Washington Post) Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who returned to Russia last week after recovering in Berlin from an attempt on his life involving a military nerve agent, presented Russian President…

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Back to Square One

(Moscow-on-Thames) The dust hasn’t yet settled, but we can draw some early conclusions from today’s protests in Russia. In a nutshell, the Kremlin and the opposition are at a stalemate. I don’t…

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Greene: The signs in Russia are there—the discontent is there, the deprivation is there

(RFE/RL) When Vladimir Lenin stepped off a train at St. Petersburg’s Finland Station in April 1917, he set in motion events that would transform Russia and ultimately divide the world into…

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On Opposition

(Moscow-on-Thames) I spend most of my time studying how people fight back against autocratic regimes in places like Russia (and, increasingly, Belarus). But as my fellow Americans worry about the potential…

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Greene: Putin’s inability to say Navalny’s name out loud is bordering on the absurd

(RFE/RL) As he does, Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to a Soviet-era pop culture reference to get his message across at one point in his 4 1/2-hour annual press conference on December 17,…

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Book Launch (Nov. 24): The Red Mirror by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

(King’s Russia Institute) Book launch: The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. Discussant: Maxim Trudolyubov, Opinion Editor, Meduza. Chair: Samuel Greene, King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London. Tuesday, November 24. London: 17:30-19:00. Understanding Russian politics requires understanding…

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Greene: Conflict with the West and the US in particular form an important part of Putin’s legitimacy

(NYTimes) MOSCOW — The morning after Joseph R. Biden Jr. became president-elect of the United States, the Kremlin published a congratulatory message from President Vladimir V. Putin. It was a happy-60th-birthday…

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Greene: If you see Navalny’s poisoning as a major shift, you haven’t been paying attention

(Foreign Policy) In the three weeks since Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fell violently ill on a flight to Moscow, any pretense that this was anything other than a state-sponsored assassination…

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