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Putin’s Labyrinth: Career Stagnation in Russia’s Corridors of Power

After the parliamentarian elections this time the usual upward mobility switches in the elite are conspicuously absent. The path of career...

Viktor Babariko from jail: The only easy path is the path to slavery

On February 22 the trial against Viktor Babariko, ex-candidate for president of Belarus and former top manager of Belgazprombank, will be resumed at...

Lukashenka will be re-elected, but at what price?

The social economic circumstances for the presidential elections in Belarus are extremely unfavourable for the authorities. Recession, decline in...

United Russia’s Rehabilitation Means a Tightening of the Screws

Russia's ruling party United Russia has lost most of its credibility by now, after the highly impopular pension reform and the political protests of...

The Twilight of Putin’s Political Monopoly?

Political fragmentation, fights between the elites and a total absence of a positive domestic agenda. Political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya signals...

‘Everyone Likes Naturalness and Sincerity’: Sincerity Rhetoric in Contemporary Political Discourse in Russia

In the run-up to the Russian presidential election of 2018, the concept of sincerity played a central role in the political language of various...

Protest vote disturbs Kremlin's control over regions

The results of recent regional elections were for United Russia the worst since elections for regional leaders were introduced in 2012. ...

Kremlin's puzzle: how to frame Putin's re-election?

This autumn marks the start of an insecure election year in Russia. On 18 march 2018 Putin will most likely be re-elected for his fourth...

American obsession with Russia helps Putin's reelection

The allegations against Russia interfering in the American elections are still murky. After the elections contacts between Russian government...

Russian model helps extreme right to become mainstream

In March the French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen (FN) visited the Duma in Moscow, looking for financial support for her presidential...

Hacking Western democracy

President Obama struck back at Russia on December 29 for its alleged cyber-attacks, designed to influence the 2016 election. After intelligence...

Russians can make a difference in Sunday's elections: by staying at home

The Duma is a rubber stamp parliament and the elections of September 18 are rigged. Still there is one thing the Kremlin is worried about: what if...

The Russian Protest Movement: Not Dead, Not Alive, Just Different

by Yekaterina Schulmann There are two widespread misconceptions about protest activity in Russia. The first is that, for some mysterious reason,...
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