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Special Issue: Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform: The Politics of Institutionalizing the Status-Quo

(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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Petrov: Russia would denounce the EU sanctions as a Western attack on its “glory”

(EU Observer) Four Russians are about to join an EU list of the world’s worst human rights abusers, but who are they? EU states’ ambassadors, on Wednesday (24 February), signed off…

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Petrov: Navalny has ruined Putin’s gambit

(Wall Street Journal) MOSCOW—The jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last month galvanized the biggest popular protests in Russia in nearly a decade, as his supporters were joined across the country…

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As Anger at Ruling Regime Boils Over, Putin Strikes Hard Against Dissent

(Moscow Times) Many now consider “Putin’s Palace” — that jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny exposed in a YouTube video that has garnered more than 80 million views in a matter of…

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Petrov: The perception that Putin has stayed away from the public doesn’t compare well to Navalny’s bold comeback

(AP) The return to Russia from Germany by opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked by chaos and popular outrage, and it ended, almost predictably, with his arrest. The Jan. 17 flight…

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Petrov: Mishustin’s responsibility is more narrow, but in compensation he has a free hand

(Moscow Times) The Russian government is pushing ahead with a long-rumored mini-reshuffle this week in what analysts see as a mark of both newly installed prime minister Mikhail Mishustin’s growing influence…

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Petrov: “Nobody inspires such hostility and fear as Navalny”

(The New York Times) MOSCOW — A pro-Kremlin propaganda film posted online before Russia’s 2018 presidential election smeared Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader now lying comatose in a German hospital after…

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Petrov: Navalny is a leader who is capable of uniting people

(WSJ) MOSCOW—The sudden and mysterious illness that left Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in a coma has delivered a blow to Russia’s political opposition, throwing into question its future at a…

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Petrov: Moscow’s instructions on how to calculate deaths gave a lot of freedom to regional healthcare systems to underreport

(Moscow Times) The death toll from the coronavirus across many Russian regions could be many times higher than official statistics show, analysis of new data by The Moscow Times suggests.…

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Petrov: Degtyaryov’s party affiliation is irrelevant to most protesters in Khabarovsk, who view him as someone imposed from Moscow

(opb.org) Artyom Mozgov, 20, is among the thousands of people who have been protesting for the past two weeks in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, seven time zones east of Moscow…

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Special Issue: Russia’s 2020 Constitutional Reform: The Politics of Institutionalizing the Status-Quo

Petrov: Russia would denounce the EU sanctions as a Western attack on its “glory”

Petrov: Navalny has ruined Putin’s gambit

As Anger at Ruling Regime Boils Over, Putin Strikes Hard Against Dissent

Petrov: The perception that Putin has stayed away from the public doesn’t compare well to Navalny’s bold comeback

Petrov: Mishustin’s responsibility is more narrow, but in compensation he has a free hand

Petrov: “Nobody inspires such hostility and fear as Navalny”

Petrov: Navalny is a leader who is capable of uniting people

Petrov: Moscow’s instructions on how to calculate deaths gave a lot of freedom to regional healthcare systems to underreport

Petrov: Degtyaryov’s party affiliation is irrelevant to most protesters in Khabarovsk, who view him as someone imposed from Moscow