by DENNIS RECHELLE ALYSE | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
This Sunday, Russia will be holding their presidential elections. Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is projected to win another term in a landslide which would bring his political reign to nearly a quarter of a century placing him only behind former Soviet leader...
by ISABELLE VICTORIA MCGREW | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
A managed democracy, as the Putinists would practice it, is not a true democracy. As the demonstrations have continued, it is clear that Russians themselves agree that this political system is not an acceptable approach to democracy – and a true democracy is what...
by JORDAN MICHAEL NAKDIMON | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
On March 4th, 2018, the Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, demonstrated once again what almost the entire world already knows: Russia is currently a highly aggressive, largely undemocratic country. In the English city of Malisbury, on a peaceful...
by Victor Brechenmacher | Nov 26, 2017 | Brown University
On Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as ‘foreign agents.’ The move echoes a 2012 Russian law asking the same of any domestic NGO receiving external funding. In June,...
