Tag Archives: duma_election

On cost-shifting, the Duma election and others

Posted on July 8, 2026 by ATCz

As a background for a forthcoming report, I am highlighting some stories from the past month that show how Russia’s domestic political machinery shifts financial and political costs during the war. As the country is facing an increasingly uncertain-looking summer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections, Policies | Tagged arctic, budgets, debt, drones, duma_election, economy, elections, electricity, energy, far_east, governors, kaliningrad, khabarovsk, komi, krasnoyarsk, municipalities, municipal_reform, murmansk, nizhny_novgorod, norilsk, novosibirsk, political_prisoners, primorye, putin, regions, sakha, tatarstan, tver, ukraine, united_russia, vladivostok, volgograd, waste_collection | Leave a comment

On livestock protests in Siberia, the pitfalls of the Duma vote and others

Posted on April 1, 2026 by ATCz

What do the protests over livestock culling in Siberia say about the relationship between the Russian state and its citizens? And why is this just one of the many accumulating grievances that the Kremlin is concerned about ahead of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Dispatches, Elections, Policies | Tagged agriculture, arrests, bashkortostan, budgets, buryatia, chelyabinsk, communists, dagestan, deputy_governors, duma_election, governors, ivanovo, krasnodar, kursk, lipetsk, maritime, mayors, municipal_reform, novosibirsk, primorye, protests, regions, rzhd, saratov, smirnov, starovoit, sverdlovsk, tambov, tomsk, transit | Leave a comment

On the costs of veteran reintegration, regional elections and more

Posted on January 31, 2026 by ATCz

As the year starts in Russia, the reintegration of soldiers and upcoming regional and Duma elections are on the mind of the authorities. The Kremlin is creating pathways to spread the cost of and responsibility for veteran reintegration, while regions … Continue reading →

Posted in Dispatches, Elections, Policies | Tagged bashkortostan, budgets, duma_election, economy, governors, kemerovo, lipetsk, municipal_reform, political_prisoners, regional_elections, regions, shoigu, siberia, social_payments, veterans, vologda, war, waste_collection | Leave a comment

What is at stake in Russia’s regional and municipal elections?

Posted on September 9, 2023 by ATCz

On September 8-10 Russia holds regional gubernatorial or legislative elections in 33 of its 83 regions, including in Moscow. Apart from these votes, a number of municipal votes will be held across the country, and the occupying authorities will stage … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections | Tagged duma_election, golos, governors, khakassia, moscow, navalny, novosibirsk, ratings, regions, smart_voting, tomsk, united_russia | Leave a comment

A mirror, a rehearsal, a vote

Posted on September 24, 2021 by ATCz

The 2021 Duma election started exactly a week ago and ended with a result that most people expected and feared: a renewed United Russia supermajority, propped up by fraud, intimidation and a toolbox of tricks. The election will no doubt … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections | Tagged arkhangelsk, data, duma_election, fair_russia, furgal, golos, greens, ingushetia, kabardino-balkaria, khabarovsk, kirov, komi, kprf, ldpr, mari_el, moscow, nao, navalny, new_people, omsk, online_voting, opposition, primorye, protests, regions, rigging, ryazan, sakha, samara, smart_voting, tomsk, tuva, united_russia | Leave a comment

Look closely: the districts to watch in Russia’s elections

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ATCz

This week from Friday to Sunday, as Russians head to the polls, United Russia’s supermajority (and the amount of falsification necessary to maintain it) will ultimately depend on how the party fares in single-mandate districts. These are the ones worth … Continue reading →

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The 225 meanings of legitimacy

Posted on August 2, 2021 by ATCz

Amidst an increasingly harsh crackdown on dissent, a crisis of legitimacy haunts the Duma elections that will take place in seven weeks. But what does this actually mean? I argue that Russia in 2021 is not Belarus in 2020, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections | Tagged arkhangelsk, chechnya, communists, donbas, duma_election, fair_russia, government, khakassia, kursk, mishustin, moscow, murmansk, n_novgorod, putin, ratings, regions, rostov, saratov, security_council, smart_voting, sverdlovsk, tver, united_russia, vladimir, yaroslavl | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: duma_election

On cost-shifting, the Duma election and others

On livestock protests in Siberia, the pitfalls of the Duma vote and others

On the costs of veteran reintegration, regional elections and more

What is at stake in Russia’s regional and municipal elections?

A mirror, a rehearsal, a vote

Look closely: the districts to watch in Russia’s elections

The 225 meanings of legitimacy

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Tag Archives: duma_election

On cost-shifting, the Duma election and others

On livestock protests in Siberia, the pitfalls of the Duma vote and others

On the costs of veteran reintegration, regional elections and more

What is at stake in Russia’s regional and municipal elections?

A mirror, a rehearsal, a vote

Look closely: the districts to watch in Russia’s elections

The 225 meanings of legitimacy

On Twitter

Archives

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