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
Vladimir Gel’man on how digitalisation should aid public accountability mechanisms in contemporary Russia, but is currently helping to thwart it
Vladislav Inozemtsev explains why 2020 is far from over
Ivan Davydov on key developments in Russia in 2020
OVD-Info lawyers and analysts Alexandra Baeva, Natalia Smirnova and Denis Shedov have flagged up several issues affecting Russia’s courts during the pandemic
Ivan Tkachev on why the authorities changed their strategy for fighting COVID-19
Pavel Luzin on herd immunity to COVID-19 in the Russian Armed Forces
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
Olga Zeveleva on the practices used in the Russian prison system during the COVID-19 pandemic and their consequences
Vladislav Inozemtsev is worried about how Covid-19 is sending Russia’s transport sector off the rails
Sofya Orlosky on how in the absence of effective state responses, civic groups in Belarus, Russia, and Azerbaijan are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
Moscow’s inability to introduce a full quarantine reflects the depth of Russia’s deep regional inequalities, writes Anastasia Mironova
Ivan Tkachev on how long Russia’s budget reserves will last in the current oil price environment