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Lulling the Discontented: How the Authorities Are “Drying Out” the 2026 Elections

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Authors
  • Ksenia Smolyakova

    Political Scientist, expert of the «Election Atlas» project
  • Vladimir Rouvinski

    Professor, Laboratory of Politics and International Relations (PoInt), Political Science Program at Icesi University (Columbia)
  • Ivan U. Klyszcz

    Research fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin

    Professor of Political Studies and the Head of the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Roman Chernikov

    Political scientist
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