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
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2020 in Russia: the year when politics became a crime
Ivan Davydov on key developments in Russia in 2020
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
Covid’s second wave: Can Russia’s economy cope?
Ivan Tkachev on why the authorities changed their strategy for fighting COVID-19
The Russian military and COVID-19
Pavel Luzin on herd immunity to COVID-19 in the Russian Armed Forces
How China Helped Russia Weather COVID and Why It’s Not Necessarily Good News
Nicholas Trickett on how COVID-19 has been rewriting economic orthodoxy across the globe, but Russia’s Austrian School economists have yet to get the memo
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
Covid-19 has wrecked Russia’s transport sector
Vladislav Inozemtsev is worried about how Covid-19 is sending Russia’s transport sector off the rails
When Autocrats Fail, Civil Society Steps Up
Sofya Orlosky on how in the absence of effective state responses, civic groups in Belarus, Russia, and Azerbaijan are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
For Russia’s poor regions, lockdown is a luxury
Moscow’s inability to introduce a full quarantine reflects the depth of Russia’s deep regional inequalities, writes Anastasia Mironova
Russia’s fiscal wellbeing is suddenly melting away
Ivan Tkachev on how long Russia’s budget reserves will last in the current oil price environment