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Explaining Urban Protest in Illiberal Regimes: An Emphasis on Russia

(APSA-CP) For the past decade, the study of societal development contemporary autocracy has largely focused on two dynamics: the drivers of individual-level regime support and participation in large-scale protest events, or…

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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…

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How the Opportunist in the Kremlin Took Advantage of Coronavirus

(Globe Post) Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of the coronavirus outbreak to announce his support for a proposal that allows him to evade constitutional term limits for a second time. Under this constitutional “reset,”…

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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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Smyth: Smart Vote did not increase turnout in Russia but it influenced the election’s outcome

(The Print) Russian voters are looking beyond President Putin and Putinism for solutions to everyday problems. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, United Russia, eked out a majority in the Moscow municipal…

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Moscow’s municipal elections illustrate the growing political crisis in Russia

(The Cconversation) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, United Russia, eked out a majority in the Moscow municipal legislature in elections on Sept. 8. While Putin’s regime touted the outcome as a…

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Rethinking Structure and Agency in Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics [Gel’man, Hale, Smyth, Way, Casey, Greene, Frye]

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Introduction: The role of structure and agency in political and social changes has been a recurring topic of discussion in the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Research…

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Is the growing Russia crisis another Cold War conflict? Nyet

(The Conversation) A crisis erupted this week as Russian diplomats were ejected from European countries and the U.S., and Western diplomats were ejected by Russia. The punitive measures were sparked by…

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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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How the Kremlin Is Using the Moscow Renovation Project to Reward and Punish Voters

(PONARS Policy Memo) In February 2017, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and President Vladimir Putin introduced a far-reaching plan to demolish ten percent of Moscow’s housing stock, relocate residents, and ultimately…

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Explaining Urban Protest in Illiberal Regimes: An Emphasis on Russia

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