When we all become “foreign agents”
Ivan Davydov explains the Kremlin’s addiction to targeting “foreign agents”
Society
Islamic education in the North Caucasus
Alisa Shishkina on the challenges to and prospects for the Islamic education system in Russia
“Fem-fanatics” and “Gender-Neutral Devils”: Russia’s Public Sphere Responds to Woke Culture
Ella Rossman reflects on the “new ethics” firing up the Russian public sphere
Could the West Have Saved Russia from Itself?
Igor Gretskiy examines Russia’s readiness to join NATO in the 1990s
Is Manizha “Russian” Enough?
Jacqueline Dufalla & Lilia Sablina on how a Eurovision entry highlighted existing problems within Russia’s ethnic hierarchies
Russia’s GenZ: Progressive or Reactionary?
Margarita Zavadskaya uncovers the political tendencies of young people in Russia
Punishment without crime: political prisoners in Russia
Ellen Leafstedt notes how Alexei Navalny’s recent imprisonment adds to a growing list of political prisoners in Russia
Alexei Navalny and his potential supporters
Stepan Goncharov investigates the levels of support and opposition to Alexei Navalny across Russia
How did Russian society react to Covid-19?
Margarita Zavadskaya discovers how Russian society is particularly rife with conspiracy theories about Covid-19
Russian Groupthink
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on collective identity, public opinion and generational fault-lines in Russian politics
Russia and the West: mistakes of the 1990s
Sergey Radchenko on who is “to blame” for the divorce of Russia and the West
Russia’s young pessimists
Stepan Goncharov on the growing discontent among younger generations of Russians