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What Russia’s Brand Numbers Can and Can’t Tell You

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Authors
  • Mihaela Vata

    International Expert in Corporate Security
  • Dmytro Voronenko

    Independent researcher. Publisher of incidence.world, a quantitative panel on the limits of Russian endurance in a war of attrition
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    Analyst at OVD-Info and a researcher of civil society and repression in contemporary Russia
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    Co-founder of OVD-Info, a human rights and environmental activist
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    Freelance writer and former Meduza deputy editor
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