One year in the life of a consolidated personalist dictatorship
Mikhail Turchenko on why the scope and harshness of repression will only grow
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Russia’s (cancelled) ecological referenda
Andras Toth-Czifra reports on recent grassroots attempts to stage regional ecological referenda and looks into how these are affecting power dynamics in Russia
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
Pro-Navalny protests are breaking records across Russia
Andrei Semenov on the January 2021 mobilisation in the context of Russian politics
Alexei Navalny and his potential supporters
Stepan Goncharov investigates the levels of support and opposition to Alexei Navalny across Russia
Russian Groupthink
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on collective identity, public opinion and generational fault-lines in Russian politics
In Russia’s largest protests in years the North Caucasus mostly stayed home. Why?
Ivan U. Klyszcz discusses possible factors in the small turnout for the 23 January protests in the North Caucasus republics
Six myths about elections and protests in autocracies
Margarita Zavadskaya on why it’s high time we forgot the rhetoric of “colour revolutions”
The ideology of political opposition in Russia
Sergey Belanovsky and Anastasia Nikolskaya on the ideology of political activists and the need to cooperate with officials
In memoriam: Russia’s ban on Telegram, 2018–2020
Lincoln Pigman looks back at a short-lived and misguided attempt to censor a popular messaging app
Sometimes, even Russia’s protesters can win
Ivan Davydov considers why and how protests against political repressions sometimes work