Late Putinism: ‘Mafia State’
Russia’s investigative committee said Sunday that it had confirmed via genetic testing that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash. His death is “par for the course,”… Read more »
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Putin, Putinism, and autocracy
Russia has become a kleptocracy under President Vladimir Putin. As a consequence, Russia’s foreign policy has become more aggressive, argues analyst Anders Aslund. Putin has outsourced much of foreign policy… Read more »
Putinism minus Putin?
Police detained nearly 1,400 activists (HT: AP/CFR) who participated in a Saturday protest against a ban on some opposition candidates from running for Moscow’s city council, according to a monitoring… Read more »
Russia’s civil society aims to prevent Putinism after Putin
An important test of civil society in Russia is unfolding on the streets of Moscow. It suggests that despite the authoritarian rule of President Vladimir Putin over nearly two decades,… Read more »
Exporting Putinism?
Russia’s “appeal as an opponent of regime change and supporter of existing governments endears it to all governments in the area, authoritarian and democratic,” Georgetown University’s Angela Stent writes… Read more »
Russia ‘playing with West’s minds’: Putinism an ideological threat?
In a new book, Matteo Renzi, the former Italian prime minister, says he called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia about false news reports attacking him on the international Russian… Read more »
‘No color revolution’: Armenians don’t deliver blow to Putinism?
In Armenia, a constitutional power grab backfired, says Chatham House analyst Laurence Broers. Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan stepped down Monday amid large-scale protests against corruption and his rule, a move… Read more »
Putinism’s greatest liability
Having lived through the collapse of two ideologies, tsarist and communist, Russia has been a post-truth society for decades, notes Anastasia Edel, the author of Russia: Putin’s Playground: Empire, Revolution, and… Read more »
Putinism, populism and defending liberal democracy
No definition of populism will fully describe all populists, Uri Friedman writes for The Atlantic: That’s because populism is a “thin ideology” in that it “only speaks to a very… Read more »
The new Putinism: orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality
In his first interview after recovering from a coma, Open Russia (OR) Coordinator Vladimir Kara-Murza told OR correspondent Roman Popkov that he is preparing for a long-term recovery but is not planning… Read more »