The Political Participation that Enables Putin

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With media coverage of Russia focusing on government crackdowns against prominent opposition political figures like Alexei Navalny, our discussions of Russians’ political participation during the autocratic…

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Putin’s Strengths and Vulnerabilities: Three New Books

Join us for an upcoming PONARS Eurasia event celebrating the release of three new books analyzing Putin’s strengths and vulnerabilities. Featuring: Timothy Frye (Weak Strongmen: The Limits of Power in…

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Putin’s Rules of the Game: The Pitfalls of Russia’s New Constitution

(Foreign Affairs) Obviously, 2020 was a terrible year. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, there was one bright spot. Putin solved his “2024 problem”—the legal constraint to standing for reelection…

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Russia’s referendum could keep Vladimir Putin in power until 2036. What do high-ranking Russians think?

(Monkey Cage) Russians vote today on constitutional amendments that would allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in office until the year 2036, thanks to changes to Russia’s presidential term limits. Putin recently justified these reforms as necessary…

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Lucan Way: While Putin has consistently crushed democracy at home, he seems happy to support competitive elections abroad

(War on the Rocks) In January, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that China had developed “a 21st century surveillance state with unprecedented abilities to censor speech and infringe upon basic human rights.…

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Putin’s Power Games | Vladimir Gel’man, Robert Orttung, Regina Smyth, and more

(Russian Analytical Digest) The topic of this issue is ‘Putin‘s Power Games.’ In it, eight authors from different institutions (Jan Matti Dollbaum, Maria Domańska, Vladimir Gel’man, Andrei Kolesnikov, Robert Orttung, Michael…

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BookAuthority’s 25 “Best New International Relations Books to Read” includes Greene and Robertson’s: Putin v. the People

BookAuthority’s “25 Best New International Relations Books to Read” includes Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson’s book, Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia. “A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary…

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Russia’s cabinet resigns and it’s all part of Putin’s plan

(The Conversation) Editor’s note: Russia’s prime minister, Dmitry A. Medvedev, and cabinet resigned on Jan. 15. Russian politics are often not what they seem, especially to those in the West.…

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‘I don’t know what will happen with Putin’s daughters’ Political scientist Vladimir Gelman explains how Russia’s political regime consolidated and the country became ‘badly governed’

(Meduza) There is little debate among experts that the Russian state, despite the preservation of its democratic Constitution, has been authoritarian in essence for several years already. A decade ago,…

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Protecting Falsehoods with a Bodyguard of Lies: Putin´s Use of Information Warfare

(ETH Zürich) For many decades, Soviet and Russian propagandists put a premium on “controlling the message.” With the ascension of Vladimir Putin, however, we’ve seen a qualitatively different approach to information warfare…

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