Russia’s Lost Guardian: The Constitutional Court of the 1990s

Jeff Hawn and Alexey Uvarov examine the Court’s fleeting independence, political confrontations, and lessons for genuine constitutional oversight

The Unfulfilled Promise of Russia’s 1991 Constitution

Jeff Hawn and Alexey Uvarov explore the drafting of the Russian Constitution in the 1990s, contrasting democratic aspirations with centralized power

How Yeltsin really paved the way for Putin

Jeff Hawn sees Boris Yeltsin as a deliberate gravedigger of Russian democracy rather than its beleaguered protector

The Unreformed Russian Military

Jeff Hawn on why Russia’s military never outgrew the brutal mindset of its Soviet origins