Russia’s Great Transformational Failure
(Tablet Magazine) Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera. The collapse of the Soviet system led to a period…
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The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence inside the United States: A Moving Target
(4FreeRussia) The study scopes out the Kremlin’s malign social media operations in the United States, their key purveyors, platforms and enablers. It analyzes how the Russian approach to conducting social media…
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Who Votes for Technocratic Parties?
(Politics and Governance) Abstract In this study, I look at two types of political actors commonly described as ‘populist’ in literature—namely, rightwing populists and technocratic leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron and the…
If Putin sends troops to Belarus, don’t expect Russians to applaud
(Monkey Cage) Russians don’t like military adventures in bad economic times, my research finds. Yesterday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi to discuss closer integration. The ongoing political…
Russia’s Crumbling Power Vertical: Decreasing Disposable Income Drives Discontentment
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Accumulating evidence points at prospects of growing destabilization at the regional level in Russia. In 2019, five consecutive years of economic stagnation ignited a wave of…
Was Navalny’s Poisoning Business as Usual—Or a Turning Point for Russia?
(Newsweek) he poisoning of Alexey Navalny seems to confirm any concerned observer’s worst suspicions: Vladimir Putin’s regime is transforming into a new, more repressive type of dictatorship than before. This transformation is manifest…
Snegovaya: When the economic growth in Russia was high, Putin did not face much resistance when eliminating the regional autonomy
(FT) Vladimir Putin had been reassured that the regional election in September 2018 would be nothing to worry about. Mr Putin’s man would retain the governorship of Khabarovsk Krai, a…
The Coronavirus Could Hit Putin Most of All
(FP) The coronavirus pandemic has created problems for countries around the world, but it seems it may hurt Russia in particular, creating new and complicated challenges for President Vladimir Putin.…
Snegovaya: The Kremlin is very averse to anything that has to do with revolutions | Greene: Kremlin propagandists don’t need to spin this
(RFE/RL) The screen depicts the Statue of Liberty backdropped by a cloud-specked sky, its outstretched arm and crowned head superimposed over the body of an American police officer whose knee presses…
Guns to butter: sociotropic concerns and foreign policy preferences in Russia
(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: On the concept of “rally around the flag,” scholars often argue that by invoking the danger of external threats in times of economic hardship, leaders can rally the…