The Arrest of Ivan Safronov
(RMR blog) I was recently a guest on Kevin Rothrock’s Naked Pravda podcast on Meduza.io, talking about the role of military journalism in Russia and the potential impact of the arrest…
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Wave of Post-Plebiscite Repressions Makes Russia More Dangerous
(EDM) Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political “triumph” in securing approval for the set of amendments to the constitution in a public vote on July 1 (see EDM, July 2) has brought neither…
Do Black Lives Matter in Russia?
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) This memorandum reviews Russian state media and civil society responses to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The varying reactions cast an interesting light on how…
Petrov: “They are telling local elites that… they can arrest anyone”
(NYTimes) After leaving Russia’s regional leaders to take much of the responsibility and heat for battling the coronavirus pandemic, the Kremlin has sent a blunt message to recently empowered local…
Digital Technologies and Authoritarian Regimes: A Case of Pothole Management in Moscow
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Tahrir, Maidan, and Bolotnaya plazas—the public spaces associated with pro-democratic protests of the last decade—are located in the capital cities. Controlling public opinion in the capital…
Gone with the virus. How the pandemic makes Russian strategy evanescent
(NEE) The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in three major blows to the Kremlin’s international strategy, thus making it adjust to much less favourable circumstances than when Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and…
Scant Foreign Policy Choices for a Troubled and Divided Russia
(EDM) For months, and particularly during the end of June and start of July, Russian politics was centered on ensuring the desired result in the vote on the set of amendments…
Nationalizing Russian (War) Memory Since 2014
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) After two decades of (official) American neglect of Russian/Soviet sufferings during World War II, President John Kennedy, in his 1963 address at American University, recollected that…
Petrov: No one was really counting results seriously and it was just up to the Kremlin on how to report this as a triumphant victory
(Newsweek) An election expert in Russia has cried foul over the vote on constitutional amendments which may cement President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power until 2036. The ballot which ended…
What’s Vladimir Putin’s end game? Other post-Soviet autocrats give a few clues.
(Monkey Cage) Russia’s constitution, at least before this week’s referendum, would have required Vladimir Putin to step down from the Russian presidency in 2024, at the end of his second consecutive…