28 марта 2022 Диана Фишман Итоги двух прошедших месяцев для российского гражданского общества неутешительны: в стране жестко ограничены базовые конституционные права, официально введена военная цензура и монополия государства на правду, окончательно уничтожена свобода слова и собраний. Военное вторжение в Украину придало мощное ускорение российской репрессивной машине. Участников антивоенных акций массово…

23 марта 2022 Майкл Васюра Практически по всем параметрам российское вторжение в Украину обернулось катастрофой для самой России. Но даже несмотря на рост потерь российской армии и падение уровня жизни населения из-за жестких экономических санкций, нет оснований полагать, что Кремль изменит свой курс. …

Liya Wizevich On December 15, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Russia (IMR), hosted a panel discussion on the findings and lessons learned from the recently released reports “Jabbed in the Back” and “The Rise and Fall of Sputnik V.” Dalia Bankauskaitė…

17 December 2021 Liya Wizevich The virtual sessions of the Annual Convention of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) were held on December 1–3, 2021. …

06 December 2021 Liya Wizevich Amidst growing tensions between the United States and Russia due to the latter’s military escalation in Ukraine, two experts, Fiona Hill and Andrea Kendall-Taylor, discussed the nature of Moscow’s relationships with Kyiv, the intersection of Russian and Chinese interests, and the critical misunderstandings that exist…

Two scholars discuss the lessons of the Soviet collapse 01 November 2021 Liya Wizevich In the runup to the 30th anniversary of the USSR’s dissolution, prominent Russian experts Vladimir Mau and Vladimir Gelman discuss the inevitability of the Soviet collapse, the fall of 1991 as a period of revolution, and the impact of the following decade’s legacy on modern…

30 September 2021 Liya Wizevich On September 20, University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES) hosted the first academic book launch for Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future? co-authored by Dr. Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Dr. Ben Noble, and published by Hurst and Oxford…

09 September 2021 Liya Wizevich On September 17–19, Russia will hold a series of elections on various levels of the power system — for the State Duma, for the headship of 12 federal subjects, as well as for seats in the legislative assemblies of 39 regions. Russian and Western political…

06 August 2021 Liya Wizevich On August 6, Michael Calvey, one of Russia’s most prominent foreign investors, was sentenced to five and a half years of suspended prison term for embezzlement in a case that has become “emblematic of the country’s reputation as an often treacherous place to do business.”…