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Russian Youth: A Look Inside the “Black Box”
The 2017 protests across Russia surprised many observers both inside and outside the country—no one quite expected to see so many young people, including high school students, taking to the streets to express dissatisfaction with the current political leadership.
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: The Kremlin’s Political Prisoners: Advancing a Political Agenda by Crushing Dissent
A 282-page report on the Kremlin’s political prisoners—The Kremlin’s Political Prisoners: Advancing a Political Agenda by Crushing Dissent—was authored by the public interest law…
NGOs as a tool for Russia’s projection of influence
Read Olga Shorina's report on how Kremlin uses GONGOs to achieve its goals both inside and outside Russia
The case for civil resistance to Russia’s Populace-centric warfare
Putin’s Russia is waging populace-centric hybrid warfare against democratic societies. As such, effective counter-measures to this type of warfare must prominently involve civilian population highly versed in civil resistance strategies and tactics.
Constitution and Economy after Putin. A Roadmap for a new Russia
Vladimir Putin’s regime has arguably surpassed the Soviet Union in its artful employment of propaganda. One of the most widespread myths that the regime energetically pedals is that there is “no life”—or any viable political options—after Putin.
Corruption Pipeline: The Threat of Nord Stream 2 to EU Security and Democracy
This paper is a continuation of publications on the Kremlin’s subversive activity in Europe prepared by Free Russia Foundation. The first paper, The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe,…
The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers
Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu’s Eurasia Center and the Free Russia Foundation presents "The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers," a new brief by our expert…
The Kremlin’s Hybrid Aggression
Free Russia Foundation is proud to present our new report "The Kremlin's Hybrid Aggression" authored by Ilya Yashin. Russia is critically interested in maintaining peaceful and good neighborly…
The Tsar and His Business Serfs
Free Russia Foundation and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies are happy to present our new joint report “The Tsar and His Business Serfs. Russian Oligarchs and SMEs…