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Category Archives: Policies
Elections ahead – Part IV
Six months before this year’s Duma election Russia’s political landscape is in flux. The future of “smart voting” remains a factor of uncertainty. Shifts in public opinion, the Kremlin’s new red lines and how the systemic opposition has reacted to … Continue reading
The plague year of the regions
The pandemic year of 2020 battered regional budgets. Some went through a double crisis due to the oil slump in the first half of the year. However, official figures released in January show a somewhat rosier picture than many feared. … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Policies
Tagged bashkortostan, budget, duma_election, finance_ministry, infrastructure, kemerovo, moscow, national_projects, regions, st. petersburg, sverdlovsk, tyumen
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NY Dispatches: the FSB exposures
What the Bellingcat report on Alexey Navalny’s would-be killers from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Navalny’s phone call to one of them reveal about the Kremlin’s prospects in 2021 and beyond.
Posted in Dispatches, Policies
Tagged bellingcat, foreign_policy, fsb, gru, navalny, putin, regions, security_council, svr
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NY Dispatches: Fragile sovereignism
The State Duma adopted, in the first reading, a bill expanding the defition of “foreign agents”, a discriminatory law first adopted in 2012. It appears that the updated law will be approved in the final reading in early 2021, opening … Continue reading
Posted in Dispatches, Elections, Policies
Tagged corruption, foreign_agents_law, foreign_policy, moscow, navalny, novosibirsk, putin, regions, smart_voting, tomsk
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NY Dispatches: Regional constitutional courts
This week the State Duma voted to approve the liquidation of regional constitutional courts. According to the law, which implements this year’s constitutional reform, regional constitutional courts will be abolished by 2023. They may be replaced by “constitutional councils” functioning … Continue reading
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Tagged constitutional_courts, constitutional_reform, ingushetia, regions, st_petersburg, tatarstan, tuva, united_russia
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NY Dispatches: Regions and bankruptcy
One of the news that generated significant interest over the past week was the “bankruptcy” of Ingushetia, a North Caucasian region. But Ingushetia going “bankrupt” is not exactly what happened. What Ingushetia is going through is close to bankruptcy, but … Continue reading
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Tagged budget, covid-19, ingushetia, khakassia, kostroma, magadan, may_decrees, mordovia, national_projects, regions
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