Vladimir Putin faces token opposition in the polls this weekend after his regime has viciously cracked down on opposition figures. He’s likely to be even more repressive in his next term.
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A West Point professor of Russian politics and foreign policy looks at the future of Russia without Putin.
Most of Vladimir Putin’s opponents are either dead, in jail or in exile. But it might just be ordinary people who can take over the battle for democracy in Russia.
The opposition leader was poisoned and sent to a brutal prison camp where he is reported to have died.
Navalny survived poisoning only to be arrested and sentenced to more than 30 years in jail. Now he has disappeared.
The lesson in the presumed death of the mercenary leader two months after his mutiny against Putin: Don’t make yourself an enemy of Russia’s leader.
Opposing the Russian president appears as dangerous in today’s Russia as back in the days of the Stalin purges and show trials.
Those placing their faith in sanctions to turn Russians against the war in Ukraine know little about the country, its history and people, write two scholars who have studied Russian culture.
Russia should be an exciting opportunity for global business, but the president’s “sistema” means the back room rules of the game are king.
Prime suspect has retracted his confession, yet the Chechen Republic
Boris Nemtsov’s warning about the festering bureaucratic corruption under Putin made him powerful enemies.
For Russia to make peace with its troubled post-Communist history, it needs a 1990s hero to remember. Boris Nemtsov could be just that.
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University
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Lecturer in Politics, Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Strategy and International Business, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of International Relations, United States Military Academy West Point
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast