Civil Society
Civil society and its resilience under authoritarian pressure, in Russia and beyond: how people defend human rights and free expression, how the state works to silence them, and why independent voices and grassroots initiative still matter for a democratic future
Russian faux family values: Domestic violence decriminalized in Russia
After Almost 20 Years of Lobbying for a Domestic Violence Law
Stop funding RT: Better ways to spend the budget money
RT Funding in Russia’s 2017 Federal Budget
June 22: debates over the WWII history
75 Years After the Nazi Attack: Putin and the Dispute over the War’s Origins
“We cannot do it again”
Victory Day as a Personal Holiday, Not a Pretext for Pseudo-Patriotism
Corruption A La Russe
Why Russians Tolerate Corruption Despite Navalny’s Revelations
The Sweet Poison of Propaganda
Archetypes, Flattery, and the Sense of Belonging in Russian Propaganda
Economic Crisis and The Protests
A Prolonged Recession Could Turn Sporadic Protests into a Political Crisis
Selective Solidarity
A Warsaw Conference of Former Dissidents Overlooks Russia’s Opposition
The Patriarch’s Grand Tour
Kirill’s Meeting with Pope Francis and Russian Soft Power
The Assassination of Boris Nemtsov—One Year Later
The Investigation and the Logic of “Fortress Russia”