Maria Snegovaya

Maria Snegovaya

Political Scientist

Doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Specializes in Russian and Eastern European politics, elite structures, and democratic backsliding. Published in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Journal of Democracy, and other outlets.

6 Publications

Publications

6 publications
Kremlin's Malign Influence

Disinformation, Euroskepticism and pro−Russian Parties in Eastern Europe

What social groups support pro-Russian parties in Eastern Europe? This paper demonstrates that pro-Russian parties in Eastern Europe tend to have electorates with significantly more Euroskeptic attitudes than voter bases of mainstream parties.

Report Mar 25, 2021
Kremlin's Malign Influence

The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence Inside the United States: A Moving Target

The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence inside the United States: A Moving Target is a report co-authored by Maria Snegovaya and Kohei Watanabe summarizing key insights of their analysis of social media behavior…

Report Feb 10, 2021
Politics

FACTORS OF COMPETITIVENESS IN RUSSIAN GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS, 2012-2018

Will the Kremlin’s failures at the regional level continue this year? To answer this question, we carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of factors that have contributed to victories by the pro-Kremlin candidates in gubernatorial elections that took place in 2012-2018

Report May 2, 2019
Politics

The view from Moscow: Sound and Fury

To whom and why did Russian President Vladimir Putin address in his impressively aggressive Federal Assembly speech delivered on March 1st? As usual, the pundits disagree. Domestic policy…

Article Mar 8, 2018
Politics

Who is the right-wing populist in Russia: Putin vs. Navalny

When one examines the rise of right-wing populism in Russia and Europe, it is curious that Russia reproduces the rhetoric seen elsewhere in Europe in a somewhat distorted…

Article Nov 6, 2017
Civil Society

Economic Crisis and The Protests

A section of Russian analysts view the political potential for protests in Russia in the near future with scepticism: in the conditions of an economic crisis, Russians- adapting…

Article Mar 29, 2016

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