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Margarita Zavadskaya on the new wave of emigration out of Russia
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Margarita Zavadskaya on how to interpret opinion polls on support for the war in Ukraine
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Margarita Zavadskaya discusses whether a return of the «Teflon rating» is possible, as was the case after the Crimea
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Margarita Zavadskaya on how Russian political attitudes have changed during the pandemic
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Margarita Zavadskaya on local governance models and the quality of public goods
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Margarita Zavadskaya uncovers the political tendencies of young people in Russia
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Margarita Zavadskaya discovers how Russian society is particularly rife with conspiracy theories about Covid-19
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Margarita Zavadskaya on why it’s high time we forgot the rhetoric of “colour revolutions”
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Margarita Zavadskaya and Boris Sokolov have compiled survey data on how the coronavirus pandemic is changing Russian society. The results show little sign of any ‘rally round the flag’ effect.
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Margarita Zavadskaya explains why Russia’s municipalities are so poorly governed, and why a handful of areas are exceptions to that rule
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Part five in the “Russian Media: Moscow and Beyond Calling” series on media, propaganda, and authoritarianism in Russia
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Margarita Zavadskaya on conducting political research in authoritarian systems
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Margarita Zavadskaya asks whether, and how, views on gender relations are changing in Russia today
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Margarita Zavadskaya reflects on whether opposition figure Alexei Navalny is carving out a new niche on Russia’s political left, and what he might stand to win or lose from a leftward pivot
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It’s become fashionable to claim that young people are losing their taste for democracy. But, at least in Russia, the statistics prove otherwise: the youth are just as sceptical and just as enthusiastic as their elders
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Protests are occuring in Russia with greater frequency. In general, they have become more directly political and involve a widening geographic and demographic range. But the state is responding in ever more sophisticated ways to limit their impact.