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The Future of Kazakhstani-Russian Relations: Public Opinion and the CSTO

  • October 30, 2022
  • Pauline Jones and Regina Smyth
President Vladimir Putin’s escalation of the war in Ukraine in February 2022 has critical implications for the future of Russia’s relationship with Kazakhstan. One important indicator of the direction of…
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Latest parliamentary win by Putin’s United Russia has been years in the manufacturing

  • September 22, 2021
  • Regina Smyth
(The Conversation) President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party defied economic concerns and a recent slump in support to retain a parliamentary majority – to the surprise of almost no one. The…
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Putin’s Strengths and Vulnerabilities: Three New Books

  • April 29, 2021
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Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society (Gel’man, Lankina, Semenov, Smyth, and more)

  • April 14, 2021
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(Russian Analytical Digest) This issue provides a broad overview of Russian politics and society in the run-​up to the 2021 parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for September. In eleven shorter…
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Special Issue: Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform: The Politics of Institutionalizing the Status-Quo

  • April 2, 2021
  • Regina Smyth and William E. Pomeranz
(Russian Politics) The articles in this issue explore the longer-term implications of Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform process. Assessing constitutional change from different theoretical and empirical approaches, these authors find that…
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Navalny returns to Russia and brings anti-Putin politics with him

  • February 1, 2021
  • Regina Smyth
(The Conversation) Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and his team have stunned the Russian government again, forcing President Vladimir Putin and his allies to confront significant protest led by a foe…
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Russia’s rigged elections look nothing like the US election – they have immediate, unquestioned results there

  • November 12, 2020
  • Regina Smyth
(Conversation) The 2020 election, in which Joe Biden is the projected winner, is not what a rigged election looks like. Rigged elections are organized. Vote counts certainly don’t play out in front of…
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NEW BOOK: Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008-2020

  • November 5, 2020
  • Regina Smyth
(Cambridge University Press) In a path-breaking study of Russian elections, Regina Smyth reveals how much electoral competition matters to the Putin regime and how competition leaves Russia more vulnerable to opposition…
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How Alexei Navalny revolutionized opposition politics in Russia, before his apparent poisoning

  • August 21, 2020
  • Regina Smyth
(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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Smyth: With prizes, food, housing, and cash, Putin rigged Russia’s most recent vote

  • July 16, 2020
  • Regina Smyth
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