by Sarah Armstrong | Mar 28, 2018 | Yale University
While Russia masquerades characteristics of democracy, President Vladimir Putin presides over an authoritarian political system with power concentrated entirely in his regime. Lacking an independent judiciary, free and fair elections, a pluralistic legislator, and an...
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,...
