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
Andrei Semenov and Jan Matti Dollbaum paint a socio-political portrait of Alexey Navalny’s online followers
Stepan Goncharov investigates the levels of support and opposition to Alexei Navalny across Russia
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on collective identity, public opinion and generational fault-lines in Russian politics
Ivan U. Klyszcz discusses possible factors in the small turnout for the 23 January protests in the North Caucasus republics
Stepan Goncharov on the growing discontent among younger generations of Russians
Sergey Belanovsky and Anastasia Nikolskaya look into how Khabarovsk residents perceive the arrest of their governor, and examine what brings protestors onto the streets
In Russia’s Far East, a false state clashes with a doomed civil society, writes Ivan Davydov
Stepan Goncharov analyses the views of the Russians who voted against the amendments
Olesya Zakharova on how a young Russian student is reframing his president’s ideas of civic responsibility
Natalia Forrat on how state support programmes to leading universities have stunted their political solidarity and autonomy
