Emergency law-making
Ekaterina Borovikova, Natalia Smirnova, Maxim Sorokin and Denis Shedov on the picture of the legislative process in Russia emerging from the data and the impact of the pandemic on law-making
Institutions
Authoritarian Russia: The trajectory of political evolution
Vladimir Gelman on the mechanisms behind the emergence and consolidation of post-Soviet authoritarianism in Russia
Dynamics of Illiberalism in Russia and Eurasia
Julian G. Waller on the evolution and innovations behind Russia’s illiberal turn
30 years of constitutional justice in the Russian Federation: What needs to change?
Yulia Khalikova on how to strengthen the Constitutional Court in Russia
Expert evidence in Russian courts
Dmitry Dubrovsky on how Russian expert evidence can be used to help the courts instead of being a servant of the investigation
The cold logic of forced labour in Russia
Judith Pallot on what lies behind FSIN’s promotion of “forced labour as an alternative to deprivation of liberty”
Passport expansion
Olga Gulina on how geopolitics helps Russia to address socio-economic and demographic challenges
Reforms and their substitutes
Vladimir Gel’man on chances for improving the quality of the Russian state
Electoral authoritarianism and the limitations of scientific foresight
Grigorii Golosov on whether it is possible to foresee the collapse of electoral authoritarianism in Russia
Do Digital Technologies Serve People or Autocrats?
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova reports on how Russia’s authorities are investing heavily into a ‘smart city’ agenda which could enable a slice of better governance
How Russians Learned to Stop Dreaming and Love the Past
Vladislav Inozemtsev ponders Russians’ unique fear of the future
A Russian orbital station: Dreams or plans?
Pavel Luzin on why the Russian orbital station project is about bargaining with the USA