Will Putin make it to 2024?
Russia’s prime minister will visit Belarus today, Reuters reports (HT:CFR) and Belarus’s defense minister will be in Moscow tomorrow as the two countries step up diplomacy in the face of continued… Read more »
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Navalny – ‘who Putin fears most’ – exposed Russia’s kleptocracy
NEW: Yesterday, the world was shocked to learn that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is fighting for his life after apparently being poisoned. Here’s what he’s done to expose… Read more »
‘Putin Chef’s Kisses of Death’: Russia’s shadow army exposed
In the 1st part of an ongoing series of investigations into Yevgeny Prigozhin, his troll empire, and his Wagner private military company (PMC), we reveal the state-run nature of Wagner,… Read more »
Russia’s Far East protests show Putin slipping
Why are some observers more sensitive to autocrats’ perceptions than democrats’ need for solidarity? Excellent riposte from @NEDemocracy board member @AmbDanFried https://t.co/rvra4LvJuB — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 29, 2020… Read more »
How Putin’s kleptocracy survives
Still standing: How Vladimir Putin maintains his support https://t.co/k5b4burBOO — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 10, 2020 As Russians cast ballots in a tightly managed vote on constitutional changes that… Read more »
Putin’s Russia threatens the West – and its own people
Contemporary Russia is probably weaker in geographical, demographic, economic, military and diplomatic terms than at any time in the past century, notes Evan Mawdsley, a former professor of international history… Read more »
Putin enriches political science, impoverishes democracy
Vladimir Putin’s regime has instituted a “pretend party system” in which real political groups, with popular leaders and a genuine support base, are denied a license, replaced by impostors who… Read more »
Pinning down Putin: How to deal with Russia
President Vladimir Putin’s opponents agree a nationwide vote next month that could extend his rule is a sham, but are split over whether to campaign for a “No” vote or… Read more »
Postponing Putin’s Waterloo: How is he hanging on?
The key to any possible change in leadership in Russia is in the hands of the ruling elite, as it has been throughout Russia’s long history, notes Dr. Vitali Shkliarov,… Read more »
Russia: Pandemic tests Putin’s grip on power
Whereas Mikhail Gorbachev granted his people freedom and suffered a crushing personal defeat, Vladimir Putin is doing exactly the opposite, says a leading analyst. Putin, whose greatest fear is pressure… Read more »