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A close look at the inner workings of authoritarian power in Russia and beyond, and the forces that could one day transform it: how the Kremlin holds and wields power, why the democratic opposition endures, and what a genuine political renewal would take

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Civil Society

How to make sure the Kremlin remembers Boris Nemtsov

A Bill to Name the Street Outside the Russian Embassy After Nemtsov

Article by Vladimir Kara-Murza Mar 16, 2017
Politics

Kislyak’s spider web of networks of oligarchs and Putin’s apologists in the U.S.

The Embassy’s Ties to American Business, Lobbying, Academia and Think Tanks

Article by Ilya Zaslavskiy Mar 15, 2017
Politics

A suitcase full of cash from the Solntsevo Mafia: does Putin have a compromat on the Hungarian leader?

The Insider’s investigation into Orbán’s sudden turn toward Moscow in 2009

Article by Anastasia Kirilenko Feb 10, 2017
Politics

If the world blinks, Putin will seize the rest of Ukraine

Hybrid Aggression and the Risk of Western Distraction

Article by Natalia Arno Feb 1, 2017
Kremlin's Malign Influence

The Kremlin’s Hybrid Aggression

Kremlin Methods of Pressure on Ukraine and Other Neighbors

Report by Ilya Yashin Jan 7, 2017
Civil Society

Stop funding RT: Better ways to spend the budget money

RT Funding in Russia’s 2017 Federal Budget

Article by Vladimir Milov Dec 21, 2016
Kremlin's Malign Influence

Russia’s Likely to Interfere in French and German Elections Next

Putin’s Influence Strategy and Its Populist Allies in Europe

Article by Alina Polyakova Dec 14, 2016
Politics

Russian Elections: Results, Causes, and Consequences

Leonid Gozman on the 2016 State Duma Elections

Article by Leonid Gozman Sep 26, 2016
Economics

The Tsar and His Business Serfs

Russian Oligarchs and SMEs Did Not Surprise Putin at the Elections

Report by Ilya Zaslavskiy Sep 20, 2016
Politics

Is the leader of the United Russia Party afraid of being elected in Russia?

Transnistrian Voters Assigned to Irkutsk and Smolensk Districts

Article by Vladimir Milov Sep 12, 2016

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