‘Fortress’ Plan
Stanislav Andreychuk on how the Kremlin is changing laws that regulate Russia’s polity and elections to maintain the status quo
elections
Year 2021 in review: Elections in Russia
Stanislav Andreychuk discusses the results of the 2021 electoral year
All politics is local: Urban electoral coalitions in Russia
Andrei Semenov and Elizaveta Popkova on how the formation of electoral coalitions at the local level defines the vector and format of future electoral battles
Russia’s regions have regained their political diversity
Stanislav Andreychuk on the results of regional elections in Russia
How to steal an election
Stanislav Andreychuk explains how the Russian authorities gained a new constitutional majority in the Parliament against the voters’ will
Are these Russia’s last elections?
Stanislav Andreychuk explains why the 2021 Duma elections may not be the worst, but could be the last ones before an opaque rollout of e-voting systems
The impact of Smart Voting on the 2020 elections
Mikhail Turchenko and Grigori Golosov evaluate the effectiveness of smart voting
Technology against electoral fraud: A focus on transparency
Julia Krivonosova on whether electoral technologies can help combat fraud
What is the difference between the upcoming Duma elections and the 2016 elections?
Grigorii Golosov on whether opposition-minded voters can stop United Russia from winning a majority in the Duma
Disqualified: The Right to Run for Office in Russia
Stanislav Andreychuk summarizes the plight of Russians banned from standing in elections
The Anatomy of Regional Loyalty
Stanislav Shkel, Andrey Scherbak, and Tatiana Tkacheva reflect on why Russian ethnic minority regions show staunch support for an ethnic Russian president
Six myths about elections and protests in autocracies
Margarita Zavadskaya on why it’s high time we forgot the rhetoric of “colour revolutions”