Russia’s GenZ: Progressive or Reactionary?
Margarita Zavadskaya uncovers the political tendencies of young people in Russia
Society
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
Lessons of the Recent Past: From Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in Russia’s Prisons
Judith Pallot on the history of epidemics in Russia’s prison system and the secretive nature of the Federal Penitentiary System during the pandemic
COVID-19 has been devastating for Russia’s prisoners
Olga Zeveleva on the practices used in the Russian prison system during the COVID-19 pandemic and their consequences
The ideology of political opposition in Russia
Sergey Belanovsky and Anastasia Nikolskaya on the ideology of political activists and the need to cooperate with officials
Punitive psychiatry in Russia: back to the USSR?
Bulat Mukhamedzhanov on the risks of political abuse of psychiatry
Alexander Gudkov and Russia’s queer turn in the 2020s
Maria Engström on the normalisation of Russian queer culture and the privatisation of transgressive aesthetics by the cultural mainstream