One year in the life of a consolidated personalist dictatorship
Mikhail Turchenko on why the scope and harshness of repression will only grow
covid
Oil, COVID and prospects of economic growth in Russia
Vladislav Inozemtsev on the economic “cost of the epidemic” and impact of high energy prices on long-term development
Political support and the pandemic in Russia: a year and a half later
Margarita Zavadskaya on how Russian political attitudes have changed during the pandemic
The X-Files: How the Russian state is creeping underground
Ivan Tkachev on how the Russian authorities are gradually withdrawing citizens’ access to information
Belgrade’s vaccine bet on China
Yulia Petrovskaya on how Russia is losing the battle to vaccinate Serbia to China
COVID-19 vaccine: lifeline, or geopolitical loyalty?
Olga Gulina looks into how Eurasian countries have set about vaccinating their populations
Russia’s austerity politics point to a rocky year ahead
Nicholas Trickett into the prospects for a post-Covid economic recovery in Russia
How did Russian society react to Covid-19?
Margarita Zavadskaya discovers how Russian society is particularly rife with conspiracy theories about Covid-19
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
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