Publications
4 publications
AUTHORITARIAN RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC
The report focuses on 5 countries situated in Eurasia: China, Russia, Belarus, Iran, and Hungary, all of which are led by authoritarian leaders that possess robust state machinery for population control. On these 5 country cases, the report investigates whether there were any features in their response to the pandemic specific for autocratic regimes and what are the outcomes of their approaches.
Spirituality and reality: why traditional values do not rescue Russia.
A talk about spiritual values - a convenient propagandistic instrument, which allows masking social policy failures. Fierce arguments about the film "Matilda," dedicated to events that took place…
From Hope to Despair: what is the difference between the 2011 and 2017 protests?
Six years ago, ’the multipolarity’ of the opposition pushed the government to make concessions. Today, however, protests are monopolized and the chance of achieving any concessions is minimal.…
The Sixth Column
In recent years, the war of ideas in Russian society is on the rise as intensively as the class warfare should have been in Soviet society while approaching…