One year in the life of a consolidated personalist dictatorship
Mikhail Turchenko on why the scope and harshness of repression will only grow
Mikhail Turchenko on why the scope and harshness of repression will only grow
Andras Toth-Czifra reports on recent grassroots attempts to stage regional ecological referenda and looks into how these are affecting power dynamics in Russia
Andrei Semenov and Jan Matti Dollbaum paint a socio-political portrait of Alexey Navalny’s online followers
Grigorii Golosov reviews the legal implications of the government’s ‘extremist’ label for Alexey Navalny’s supporters
Andrei Semenov on the January 2021 mobilisation in the context of Russian politics
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
Margarita Zavadskaya on why it’s high time we forgot the rhetoric of “colour revolutions”
Sergey Belanovsky and Anastasia Nikolskaya on the ideology of political activists and the need to cooperate with officials
Lincoln Pigman looks back at a short-lived and misguided attempt to censor a popular messaging app
Ivan Davydov considers why and how protests against political repressions sometimes work