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The worst year in the history of post-Soviet Russia
Sergey Davidis on the encroachment on human rights in Russia in 2021
One year in the life of a consolidated personalist dictatorship
Mikhail Turchenko on why the scope and harshness of repression will only grow
Looking back at Russia in 2021
Ivan Davydov thinks Russia in 2021 will be remembered for its massaged election results, its jailed or exiled opposition figures, the overspilling tensions from protests in Belarus, and a widening exasperation at the government’s clumsy pandemic response
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
The impact of Smart Voting on the 2020 elections
Mikhail Turchenko and Grigori Golosov evaluate the effectiveness of smart voting
When we all become “foreign agents”
Ivan Davydov explains the Kremlin’s addiction to targeting “foreign agents”
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
Who are Navalny’s Digital Dissidents?
Andrei Semenov and Jan Matti Dollbaum paint a socio-political portrait of Alexey Navalny’s online followers
Navalny groups threatened with ‘extremist’ label
Grigorii Golosov reviews the legal implications of the government’s ‘extremist’ label for Alexey Navalny’s supporters