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The Institutional Ecosystem of Russia’s Personalist Dictatorship

Julian G. Waller evaluates which government institutions might have most weight in influencing a post-Putin Russia
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Authors
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
  • Julian Waller

    Research Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses and Professorial Lecturer in Political Science, George Washington University
  • Nurlan Aliyev

    Ph.D. in philosophy and security studies. Lecturer in the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. He is the author of «Reassessing Russia’s Security Policy».
  • Nick Trickett

    Сommodities analyst
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