Russia’s New Political Momentum
(AIIA) Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia on 17 January 2021, his immediate arrest at the border, and a court verdict sentencing him to two years and eight months in jail started…
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Book Launch (Nov. 24): The Red Mirror by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
(King’s Russia Institute) Book launch: The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. Discussant: Maxim Trudolyubov, Opinion Editor, Meduza. Chair: Samuel Greene, King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London. Tuesday, November 24. London: 17:30-19:00. Understanding Russian politics requires understanding…
NEW BOOK: The Red Mirror by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
(Oxford University Press) What explains Putin’s enduring popularity in Russia? In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin’s leadership. The main source of Putin’s political influence, she…
Friday, October 9: Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia with Duvanova, Gel’man, Sharafutdinova, and Twigg
Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia Presented as a part of PONARS Eurasia Fridays, an online event series featuring expert discussions on current events in Eurasia each week. Featuring: Dinissa…
Virtual Issue on Belarus from Nationalities Papers
(Nationalities Papers) In a recent interview with Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, Alyaksandr Lukashenka—President of Belarus since the establishment of this office in 1994—explained why he was the only parliamentarian in Belarus…
Digital Technologies and Authoritarian Regimes: A Case of Pothole Management in Moscow
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Tahrir, Maidan, and Bolotnaya plazas—the public spaces associated with pro-democratic protests of the last decade—are located in the capital cities. Controlling public opinion in the capital…
The Russian Power Vertical and the COVID-19 Challenge: The Trajectories of Regional Responses
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The COVID-19 pandemic hit Russia at a precarious moment marked by a global oil war and constitutional reforms intended to secure regime stability beyond 2024. These three…
Are the ’90s Coming to Haunt Putin?
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) Less than two months ago—a world apart—we were remembering Boris Nemtsov, five years after his passing. Nemtsov, who was shot dead in 2015 a few hundred meters…
Russia’s Struggle Over the Meaning of the 1990s and the Keys to Kremlin Power
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The days of political promise the Russian liberal opposition enjoyed during 2011-12 when the “angry urbanites” protested against the regime, are long over. The Russian “progressive era”…
New Podcast: Sharafutdinova discusses the puzzle of Putin’s durable popularity
In this podcast, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova discusses the puzzle of Putin’s durable popularity and whether this stems from a unique sense of collective identity in Russia. “What explains Putin’s phenomenal popularity?…