Passport expansion
Olga Gulina on how geopolitics helps Russia to address socio-economic and demographic challenges
Institutions
Reforms and their substitutes
Vladimir Gel’man on chances for improving the quality of the Russian state
Electoral authoritarianism and the limitations of scientific foresight
Grigorii Golosov on whether it is possible to foresee the collapse of electoral authoritarianism in Russia
Do Digital Technologies Serve People or Autocrats?
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova reports on how Russia’s authorities are investing heavily into a ‘smart city’ agenda which could enable a slice of better governance
How Russians Learned to Stop Dreaming and Love the Past
Vladislav Inozemtsev ponders Russians’ unique fear of the future
A Russian orbital station: Dreams or plans?
Pavel Luzin on why the Russian orbital station project is about bargaining with the USA
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
Russia’s opaque digitalisation
Vladimir Gel’man on how digitalisation should aid public accountability mechanisms in contemporary Russia, but is currently helping to thwart it
Russia’s censored judges
Yulia Khalikova looks at a recent ban on Constitutional Court judges publishing a dissenting opinion
The impact of Covid-19 on Russia’s courts
OVD-Info lawyers and analysts Alexandra Baeva, Natalia Smirnova and Denis Shedov have flagged up several issues affecting Russia’s courts during the pandemic
The prospects for Putin’s ‘long state’
Alexander Morozov on why Putin has not become an Atatürk for post-Soviet Russia