Experts and officials have known about flooding risks in southern Russia for years. But the government’s flood mitigation strategies have been hopelessly bogged down in bureaucracy and ineptitude. If new measures are not enacted right away, many more people and properties remain at risk.
Society
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Surveys point to a generally negative public perception of Russia’s pension plans. To what extent has this affected their attitude towards Vladimir Putin?
A gradual spread of public disenchantment with Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy is beginning to show. But will that help resolve a backlog of conflicts?
Contrary to the promises of supporters of pension reform, the average pensioner will not survive until retirement
Too few safeguards exist to protect orphans from physical or sexual abuse
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.
Post-actionism as the aesthetics of Putin’s fourth term
Thinking in broad, generational terms about Russia’s young people will only lead to conflated and patronising conclusions.
Transformation of the Soviet terror into an ethical, legal and memory issue, similar to that of American slavery or the Holocaust, could greatly contribute to the development of both legal and political culture in Russia
Russia’s authorities do not respect the individuality of some of their own citizens, which in turn promotes public attitudes of intolerance
If you are intrigued by the title, this means such a possibility exists
The ideas of counter-cultural figures from the Perestroika years are taking on a new social and political significance in contemporary Russian society
There is nothing unique about the way Russians are responding to authoritarian rule
How today’s Russia copes with memories of Stalin’s repressions
In Russia’s World War II Commemorations, the Holocaust Remains an Unexamined Narrative