The Role of Authoritarian State-Run Media
(Event Video) Despite the rapid rise of the Internet and social media, governments in places as diverse as China, Russia, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Iran are finding stubbornly effective ways…
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Orttung, Makarychev: Russian (and Chinese) Mega-Projects Bolster Triumphalist Narratives
(Al Jazeera) Much of the international discussion of Sochi the Olympics has focused on the seeming irrationality of the enterprise, as manifested by the choice of location, the cost of…
Orttung, Zhemukhov: Pride and Corruption Permeate the Games
(The New York Times Magazine) Anatoly Pakhomov was elected mayor of Sochi after the type of ersatz campaign that passes for democracy in Russia. It was 2009, and he had…
Authoritarian Regimes Retool their Media-Control Strategy
(Washington Post) (By Robert Orttung and Christopher Walker) With a surprise decree Dec. 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin shut down RIA Novosti, the massive, state-controlled news agency, and replaced it…
The 2014 Sochi Olympics and Russia’s Civil Society
(By Robert Orttung and Sufian Zhemukhov) This article examines the impact of mega-events on civil society. Based on a case study of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, it concludes that mega-events provide…
New Policy Memo: Sochi 2014: The Political Economy of Russia’s Mega-Projects
Billions of people around the world watch the Olympics and even more viewers tune in to the World Cup soccer championship. These events not only draw large audiences, but many…
Sochi 2014: The Political Economy of Russia’s Mega-Projects
Billions of people around the world watch the Olympics and even more viewers tune in to the World Cup soccer championship. These events not only draw large audiences, but many…
The Navalny Verdict: What It Means for Russia
(Six Views) Paul Goode: Navalny is not Khodorkovsky. For everyone reading or making comments about today’s verdict like “this is worrisome," you are a decade late to the game. The…
News by and for the Authorities
(The New York Times) (Co-author: Christopher Walker) — When Russian tax and law enforcement authorities recently raided the Moscow offices of Human Rights Watch, they invited a television crew from…
GW Researchers Gain Northern Exposure
(GW Today) “Dr. Orttung is the principal investigator for a five-year $561,377 project funded by the NSF.” With support from the National Science Foundation, George Washington University researchers are working…