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(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As the COVID-19 pandemic struck Russia in late March 2020 and state responses looked weak and indecisive, civil society did not hesitate to step in. For…

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Post-Soviet State Responses to COVID-19: Making or Breaking Authoritarianism?

March 27, 2020
Marlene Laruelle and Madeline McCann

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Pandemics are not only a medical and social issue. They also are deeply political—even geopolitical—and feed strong-state efforts to regulate human bodies in a way some refer…

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