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

  • April 12, 2021
  • Brian Taylor
(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?

  • July 1, 2020
  • Henry Hale
(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

  • February 18, 2020
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(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 

  • February 14, 2020
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BookAuthority’s 25 “Best New International Relations Books to Read” includes Greene and Robertson’s: Putin v. the People

  • February 5, 2020
  • Samuel Greene
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

  • January 16, 2020
  • Regina Smyth
(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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  • January 8, 2020
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(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​

  • March 7, 2017
  • Deborah Yarsike Ball
(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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Petrov: Short-term decisions by Russian authorities could lead to long-term problems

  • January 19, 2017
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  • January 5, 2016
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