Before the death of political opponent Alexei Navalny in the penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Reset DOC reached Russian statistician Lev Gudkov. In the interview, a figure emerges: the arrest of 2 percent of the Russian elite around Vladimir Putin every year, a form of control that goes beyond dissidents and anti-war voices.
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- Mark Kramer 5 January 2024What was the parable that led Soviet internationalism to Putin’s personalist nationalism? How can we imagine a post-Putin Russia? Mark Kramer (Davis Center, Harvard University) answers to these questions in this video-interview shot on the margins of Reset DOC’s Dublin Conference 2023, “Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Decline of Empires.”
- Enrico Osvaldi 30 June 2023Putin’s lack of reaction to Prigozhin’s June 23 “march for justice” may signal more than just an attempt to avoid a bloody conflict on the streets of Russia. The outward temerity of the Russian response could indicate that a real blow was dealt to Russian morale, however this could indicate more repressive measures to come from the Kremlin.
- Rebecca Batley 8 September 2022
- Rebecca Batley 14 March 2022Patriarch Kirill’s full embracing of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fuelling an outright rebellion among priests and bishops – not just in Ukraine.
- Branko Milanovic 28 February 2022The “history lesson” which laid the theoretical ground for it all, analysed by prof. Branko Milanovic
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- José Casanova 14 February 2022As Vladimir Putin has made clear, a military intervention in Ukraine would be the direct consequence of Russia’s refusal to accept the post-1989 order, in political, security and even cultural-religious terms – writes prof. José Casanova in the introduction to our dedicated Dossier.
- Rebecca Batley 8 March 2021The wife of jailed dissident Alexei Navalny is emerging as an increasingly popular figure in Russia’s opposition. Will she take up the role and openly defy the regime?
- Giovanna Pavesi 3 September 2020From Khodorkovsky to Navalny, the invisible hand behind an endless series of political aggressions