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The Risk of Protest Won’t Stop Election Manipulation: Implications for Democracy Assistance

Some of the most dramatic conclusions to an authoritarian regime have come when mass protests arise against a rigged election. Images of banner-waving crowds in the thousands often capture international…

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On Opposition

(Moscow-on-Thames) I spend most of my time studying how people fight back against autocratic regimes in places like Russia (and, increasingly, Belarus). But as my fellow Americans worry about the potential…

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Report: Nations in Transit 2015: Russia

(Freedom House) President Vladimir Putin’s decisions in 2014 to seize Crimea, invade eastern Ukraine, and deepen political repression at home can all be attributed, at least in part, to his…

Quick Comment — Unrest in Russia

Among the various actors involved with the recent Moscow demonstrations (soccer fans, right-wing groups, the Kremlin, Russian power structures, ethnic minorities), who is controlling whom? Or is this just…

Nemtsov in the House

“In order to modernize, change the Putin system.” -Boris Nemtsov Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Nizhny Novgorod Governor Boris Nemtsov presented his prospects for democracy in Russia at…

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