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Putin’s support is weakening. Will that show up in Russia’s regional elections this weekend?

(Monkey Cage) On Sunday, Russia will hold regional elections. Voters will cast ballots in some 9,000 races in 83 regions, with everything from elections to fill national legislature vacancies to elections for…

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Was Navalny’s Poisoning Business as Usual—Or a Turning Point for Russia?

(Newsweek) he poisoning of Alexey Navalny seems to confirm any concerned observer’s worst suspicions: Vladimir Putin’s regime is transforming into a new, more repressive type of dictatorship than before. This transformation is manifest…

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Petrov: “Nobody inspires such hostility and fear as Navalny”

(The New York Times) MOSCOW — A pro-Kremlin propaganda film posted online before Russia’s 2018 presidential election smeared Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader now lying comatose in a German hospital after…

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Why Navalny had to leave

(Moscow-on-Thames) I’m struggling to decide whether the recent events surrounding Aleksei Navalny are more macabre, or more absurd. For the moment, at least, I’m going with macabre. That seems the only reasonable…

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Petrov: Navalny is a leader who is capable of uniting people

(WSJ) MOSCOW—The sudden and mysterious illness that left Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in a coma has delivered a blow to Russia’s political opposition, throwing into question its future at a…

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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…

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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,…

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How Alexei Navalny revolutionized opposition politics in Russia, before his apparent poisoning

(The Conversation) The harrowing videos of Alexei Navalny, a blogger who has captured popular frustration in Russia, screaming in agony on Aug. 20, 2020 before being removed unconscious from a plane to a…

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Team Navalny and the Dynamics of Coercion: The Kremlin’s Reaction to Aleksei Navalny’s 2018 Presidential Campaign

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Authoritarian regimes frequently employ strategic coercion and repression to prevent or halt mobilization. Russia under Vladimir Putin is not an exception. As the regime became more repressive…

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Why Alexey Navalny is Important in Russia and the World

The Kremlin’s political machine is shaping popular expectations about March 18th’s presidential election in Russia. For more than a year prior to the vote, the outcome of this election has…

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Navalny

Putin’s support is weakening. Will that show up in Russia’s regional elections this weekend?

Was Navalny’s Poisoning Business as Usual—Or a Turning Point for Russia?

Petrov: “Nobody inspires such hostility and fear as Navalny”

Why Navalny had to leave

Petrov: Navalny is a leader who is capable of uniting people

Gelman: The poisoning sends a warning signal to local supporters

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

How Alexei Navalny revolutionized opposition politics in Russia, before his apparent poisoning

Team Navalny and the Dynamics of Coercion: The Kremlin’s Reaction to Aleksei Navalny’s 2018 Presidential Campaign

Why Alexey Navalny is Important in Russia and the World