Russian Groupthink
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on collective identity, public opinion and generational fault-lines in Russian politics
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on collective identity, public opinion and generational fault-lines in Russian politics
Ivan U. Klyszcz discusses possible factors in the small turnout for the 23 January protests in the North Caucasus republics
Margarita Zavadskaya on why it’s high time we forgot the rhetoric of “colour revolutions”
Sergey Belanovsky and Anastasia Nikolskaya on the ideology of political activists and the need to cooperate with officials
Lincoln Pigman looks back at a short-lived and misguided attempt to censor a popular messaging app
Ivan Davydov considers why and how protests against political repressions sometimes work
Olesya Zakharova on how a young Russian student is reframing his president’s ideas of civic responsibility
Natalia Forrat on how state support programmes to leading universities have stunted their political solidarity and autonomy
Maxim Trudolyubov on customizing repressions in Russia
Arbakhan K. Magomedov on the protest mood in Yamal
Dmitry Stratievski on German media coverage of the recent Moscow City Duma elections
The Russian authorities are resorting to creative new legal measures to repress protesters and independent candidates who were barred from running in Moscow’s elections, writes Sergey Davidis