Ivan Davydov thinks Russia in 2021 will be remembered for its massaged election results, its jailed or exiled opposition figures, the overspilling tensions from protests in Belarus, and a widening exasperation at the government’s clumsy pandemic response
Stanislav Andreychuk discusses the results of the 2021 electoral year
Andrei Semenov and Elizaveta Popkova on how the formation of electoral coalitions at the local level defines the vector and format of future electoral battles
Stanislav Andreychuk on the results of regional elections in Russia
Stanislav Andreychuk explains how the Russian authorities gained a new constitutional majority in the Parliament against the voters’ will
Stanislav Andreychuk explains why the 2021 Duma elections may not be the worst, but could be the last ones before an opaque rollout of e-voting systems
Mikhail Turchenko and Grigori Golosov evaluate the effectiveness of smart voting
Julia Krivonosova on whether electoral technologies can help combat fraud
Grigorii Golosov on whether opposition-minded voters can stop United Russia from winning a majority in the Duma
Stanislav Andreychuk summarizes the plight of Russians banned from standing in elections
Stanislav Shkel, Andrey Scherbak, and Tatiana Tkacheva reflect on why Russian ethnic minority regions show staunch support for an ethnic Russian president
Margarita Zavadskaya on why it’s high time we forgot the rhetoric of “colour revolutions”