In Russia’s Far East, a false state clashes with a doomed civil society, writes Ivan Davydov
Civil society
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Sofya Orlosky on how in the absence of effective state responses, civic groups in Belarus, Russia, and Azerbaijan are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
Ivan Davydov considers why and how protests against political repressions sometimes work
Olesya Zakharova on how a young Russian student is reframing his president’s ideas of civic responsibility
Ivan Davydov reflects on the success of the recent campaign to free the Russian journalist, and the authorities’ response
Ivan Davydov on the protest in Yekaterinburg and the institutional legitimacy crisis
Mikhail Nemtsev considers how this movement grew from a commemoration of fallen ancestors to a new public tradition centred around expressing patriotism
Ekaterina Borozdina and Margarita Zavadskaya ask whether, and how, views on gender relations are changing in Russia today
Stanislav Andreychuk on the Russian authorities’ attempts to control the country’s youth
It’s become fashionable to claim that young people are losing their taste for democracy. But, at least in Russia, the statistics prove otherwise: the youth are just as sceptical and just as enthusiastic as their elders
Strict government controls over NGO funding is pushing Russia’s civil society into a state of muted compliance
The story of Ukraine’s security police staging a planned assassination of the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko provoked significant online anger and hate speech. It is an increasingly typical Russian public reaction to an ever widening range of current events.