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13. Jan. 2022 · In 2021, Russian authorities continued to employ a variety of tools to harass, intimidate, and disrupt the work of human rights defenders, including expelling or forcing several prominent human...
- Executive Summary1
- A Shift in Contentious Politics in Russia: from Economic to Political Protests
- Preparing For A War on Two Fronts
- Policy Implications and Conclusions
The arrest and jailing of prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in January 2021 triggered a wave of demonstrations across Russia that were unprecedented in their geographic spread and scale. Though the underlying causes of frustration were much broader—encompassing poor socioeconomic conditions, the state of governance in Russia, and the regime’s...
Protests in Russia have grown in frequency over the past decade and have gone through various stages. Following the 2011–2012 Bolotnaya Square demonstrations in opposition to Putin’s return to the presidency, corruption became the dominant driver of protest. Even the massive 2018 pension reform protests were reframed as anti-corruption demonstratio...
Russia’s perceptions of external and internal security threats have always been interconnected. Moscow attributes the so-called color revolutions in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) to malign external forces and is anxious that similar revolutions could occur within Russia. As a result, opposition to regime change has become a central theme of Rus...
Russia’s response to the January–March 2021 protests demonstrates an evolution of the Kremlin’s analysis regarding security threats to the regime and presages its future responses. The Russian regime has developed a sophisticated repressive machine that can effectively quell public dissent and will be relied upon to protect the regime through its e...
12. Jan. 2023 · The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked the start of a new, all-out drive to eradicate public dissent in Russia, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023.
Amnesty International’s new publication exposes the various repressive laws and practices employed by Russia to suppress the anti-war movement in the country, with over 20,000 individuals already subjected to heavy reprisals.
4. März 2024 · Anti-war Protest in Russia. People in Russia are not able to protest peacefully without fear of reprisals. A week into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia introduced war censorship laws to make criticism the invasion a grave offence.
11. Jan. 2024 · According to the Russian human rights group First Department, authorities opened at least 21 criminal cases in 2023 against people who allegedly engaged in confidential cooperation with...
31. Dez. 2023 · The OVD-Info report presents a clear picture of the Kremlin’s suppression of basic freedoms, using a tangle of new or recently modified laws criminalizing the spread of what the state deems...
