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The Passive Majority in Russian Politics: Can Quality Beat Quantity?

Reacting to the events in Moscow of May 6, 2012, when opposition protests led to massive clashes with the police for the first time, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov described…

No Enemy at the Gate: An Unusual Election Cycle in Russia

A few weeks after the September 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, the leading propaganda man of the Putin regime, Vladislav Surkov, declared: "We must all realize—the enemy is…

Of Jackals and Hamsters: Dividing Lines in Russian Politics and the Prospects for Democratization

Speaking to a gathering of his supporters at the height of Russia’s 2007–08 election cycle, President Vladimir Putin depicted his opponents as follows: "They need a weak, sick state. They…

Modernizing Sovereign Democracy? Russian Political Thinking and the Future of the ‘Reset’

“We have changed,” was the main message of President Dmitry Medvedev’s speech at the June 2010 St. Petersburg Economic Forum (SPEF). Trying to persuade foreign governments and investors alike to…

Dmitry Medvedev’s Conservative Modernization: Reflections on the Yaroslavl Speech

On September 11, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addressed the Global Policy Forum in Yaroslavl. This speech took place almost exactly a year after his programmatic article, Forward Russia!, which…

What Happened on Manezh Square? Ideology, Institutions, and Myths Regarding the Anti-Migrant Riots of December 2010

The nationalist riots that swept over major Russian cities in mid-December 2010 took nearly everyone by surprise. Anti-migrant sentiment was on the rise, but no one expected the protests to…

Protecting ‘Our’ History: Politics, Memory, and the Russian State

On May 14, 2009, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev signed Decree No. 549, “On the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for Countering Attempts to Falsify History to the…

On a Collision Course: The EU and Russia Revisit Europe’s Recent Past

Recent studies have pointed to a fundamental transformation of the way in which the European Union imagines itself and establishes legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens and external audience.…

The Forced Choice Between Russia and the West: The Geopolitics of Alienation

On Sunday of November 21, 2004, every half hour the news headlines of the British Broadcasting Corporation reminded listeners around the world that the voters in Ukraine were to make a crucial…

“Russian Federation 2012”

"Russian Federation 2012: A Short-Term Prognoses" Editors: Viatcheslav Morozov, Karmo Tuur February 2012 © Academic Centre for Baltic and Russian Studies, University of Tartu (www.tyk.ee) Among the contributors are…

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