The Language of a Successful Dictator: How to Remain Popular Without Ending Repressions
Olesya Zakharova on Vladimir Putin’s argumentation schemes
Informational policy
When we all become “foreign agents”
Ivan Davydov explains the Kremlin’s addiction to targeting “foreign agents”
2020 in Russia: the year when politics became a crime
Ivan Davydov on key developments in Russia in 2020
Tight-lipped social networking services
Stanislav Andreychuk on why social networking sites do not contribute to freedom of elections
Digital literacy: Russia’s path
Sergey Davydov reflects on Russians’ adoption of digital habits at a time of coronavirus
Meaningless electioneering
Ivan Davydov is scratching his head at the vacuous and facile advertising campaigns pushing for amendments to the Russian Constitution
In memoriam: Russia’s ban on Telegram, 2018–2020
Lincoln Pigman looks back at a short-lived and misguided attempt to censor a popular messaging app
Moscow’s fight against the “enemies of Orthodoxy” in the Balkans
With the help of local friends and pro-Kremlin media, the Russian Orthodox Church has launched a propaganda campaign in the Balkans, writes Yulia Petrovskaya
Sometimes, even Russia’s protesters can win
Ivan Davydov considers why and how protests against political repressions sometimes work
Strategic miscommunication
Ivan Davydov reflects on the Kremlin’s communication with society in 2019
Moscow’s voice in Kyiv
Part seven of “Russian Media: Moscow and Beyond Calling”: who promotes Moscow’s position in Ukraine?