Stasya Rodionova

How Twitter Changes Stealth Authoritarian’s Approach to News Media

In the grand scheme of checks and balances on authoritarian tendencies, the media ideally plays an impartial role as a guardrail against democratic backsliding. 2016 posed a unique challenge to this...

Rewriting the Russian Constitution: A Lesson in Stealth or Overt Authoritarianism?

University of Chicago

In late June of 2020 the Russian government held a nation-wide plebiscite on a series of constitutional amendments proposed earlier this year by President Vladimir Putin. Among a myriad of changes...