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

  • February 4, 2021
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(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

  • January 28, 2021
  • Graeme Robertson
(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

  • January 24, 2021
  • Samuel Greene
(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…
Greene: The signs in Russia are there—the discontent is there, the deprivation is there
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Greene: The signs in Russia are there—the discontent is there, the deprivation is there

  • January 15, 2021
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(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

  • January 4, 2021
  • Samuel Greene
(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…
Greene: Putin's inability to say Navalny's name out loud is bordering on the absurd
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Greene: Putin’s inability to say Navalny’s name out loud is bordering on the absurd

  • December 21, 2020
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(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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  • November 20, 2020
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Greene: Conflict with the West and the US in particular form an important part of Putin’s legitimacy

  • November 9, 2020
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Greene: If you see Navalny’s poisoning as a major shift, you haven’t been paying attention

  • September 11, 2020
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