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16/02/2021

In the wake of Alexei Navalny’s arrest, new sanctions will be introduced, ones broad in their scope, Michael Gahler, a member of the EU Parliament, affirmed.

What else have the members of the EU Parliament discussed with the members of Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, the Foundation for Democratic Development and other activists? Is the situation in Belarus similar to the one in Russia?

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Several months after mass protests erupted in Belarus, a similar situation is beginning to unfold in Russia. Citizens are going out to the streets to demand change. In response, the government is engaging in a lawless crackdown on the opposition. Both internal and external influences will shape how....

08/12/2020

Why do Russians protest? Does it ever help? We have talked to an American professor of Russian history for his point of view on the matter.
Surprise! He is an optimist!
https://reforum.io/en/blog/2020/12/09/historian-mark-steinberg-explains-why-russians-protest-from-kievan-rus-to-vladimir-putin/

A history professor at the University of Illinois and author of many books about Russia (including The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921) speaks with ReForum on why a revolution can never succeed or fail, but what it can reveal about a society. ReForum: In your series of lectures you begin with defining...

27/11/2020

Why isn't Russia still a major player on the Hi-Tech market? It has plenty of skilled labor and talent. What is lacking? The CEO of Clostra answers our questions.
https://reforum.io/en/blog/2020/11/27/stanislav-shalunov-on-whats-preventing-russia-from-entering-the-global-tech-market/

Stanislav Shalunov is founder and CEO of the tech company Clostra and chief investment officer at FORA Capital. In an interview with ReForum, he talks about the risks of isolation and what Russia needs to do in order to develop its high-tech sector. Reforum: What aspects of our lives is technology c...

10/11/2020

People in don't trust charities and often despise political activism. Why is this the case? We have undertaken a study with the help of the Levada Center (Левада-Центр) to see if we can find out.
https://reforum.io/en/blog/2020/11/11/why-russians-are-afraid-of-activism-and-philanthropy/

A joint project between the Levada Center and ReForum. “In the 1990s, if Petya offended you, then you could go to Kolya and sort out the issue. But today, you see Petya everywhere, no matter where you go. Everywhere – just Petya.” This was how one of our focus group participants described Russ...

25/09/2020

's Higher School of Economics has recently experienced "a purge" of opposition-minded professors. One of them, Viktor Gorbatov, has talked to us about the crackdown.
https://reforum.io/en/blog/2020/09/25/viktorgorbatov-civil-society-emerges-where-there-is-a-culture-of-discussion/

Former Senior Lecturer at the Higher School of Economics talks about the reasons why opposition-minded instructors were recently fired from the university. He also offers his views on the power of solidarity and long-overdue reforms in Russia’s system of higher education. ReForum: The Higher Schoo...

08/09/2020

Federalism has always been a sticky issue in , a traditionally highly centralized country. Economist guriev spoke to us about the needed reforms, both economic and political, and how they might be achieved.
https://reforum.io/en/2020/04/06/sergey-guriev-regions-should-have-more-money-and-more-powers/

08/09/2020

The in Khabarovsk have been among the most persistent and powerful in in recent memory. Political scientist alexander.kynev talked to us about what political consequences they may have in .
https://reforum.io/en/2020/08/13/civil-society-in-khabarovsk/

Political scientist Alexander Kynev offers his views on the recent protests in Khabarovsk. He discusses how protesters are organizing themselves, the government’s inability to communicate with its citizens, and the political consequences awaiting LDPR and Moscow in Russia’s Far East. ReForum: Yo...

07/09/2020

A couple of weeks ago, we have interviewed political scientist Ekaterina Schulman about the protests in and what they might mean for 's opposition movement. She had a terrific take on the delusional nature of post-Soviet dictatorships.
https://reforum.io/en/2020/08/22/ekaterina-schulman-the-usual-problem-with-authoritarian-regimes-is-being-out-of-touch-with-reality/

06/09/2020

Election integrity and ... A pertinent topic, that. Predictably, a major issue in Russia itself. We've spoken with the chairman of an independent Russian election watchdog, about how the system makes holding fair elections difficult.
https://reforum.io/en/2020/07/24/gregory-melkonyants-three-barriers-for-the-election-observer/?_thumbnail_id=761

Gregory Melkonyants is co-chairman of Golos, an independent election watchdog. In an interview with ReForum, Melkonyants talks about the biggest risks of new election law, increasing restrictions on election legislation, and what Russia needs in order to hold fair elections. ReForum: What risks come...

06/09/2020

How are Russians' attitudes on hot-button issues changing? What do they think about feminism, LGBT, domestic violence and the "eternal issue" of Vladimir Putin?
We have spoken with Denis Volkov () of the Levada Center (Левада-Центр), Russia's best known polling firm.

Denis Volkov is the assistant director of the Levada Center, an independent pollster. In an interview with ReForum, Volkov explains how feminists, terrorists, and pedophiles ended up together in a recent survey. He also discusses what Russians think about domestic violence, the current government, a...

20/07/2020

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25/06/2020

Anton Gopka writes about the dangers of populist politics in the age of .
"Societies should be demanding not price slashing for the drug, but rather adequate prioritization of the health sector in the budget."

Medical research and development are in the center of everyone’s attention nowadays, and that includes politicians. This inevitably means that science becomes a subject of dangerous compromises. These days biomedical innovation grabs everyone’s attention, it is the focus of politicians as well, ...

23/06/2020

We've spoken with Professor Judyth Twigg from VCU about reform in .
"Russia needs to find the best use for the human capital that it does have. This is something that Russia is not good at and the Soviet Union was terrible at."
https://t.co/YEhFujl970

Dr. Twigg is a professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University who specialized in public health reform in post-socialist states. Yana Gorokhovskaia talked to Prof. Twigg about the success of Russia’s healthcare reform, the reliability of Russia’s recorded COVID-19 deaths, and ...

08/05/2020

A great analysis of 20 years of Putin from Foreign Policy, with experts including Vladimir Kara-Murza and Michael McFaul.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/07/how-putin-changed-russia-forever/

22/04/2020

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19/04/2020

To understand how ’s political path resembles its Central Asian neighbors, Yana Gorokhovkaya, Ph.D. in political science, spoke to Professor Edward Lemon a DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow
https://reforum.io/en/2020/04/13/what-can-putin-learn-from-central-asian-autocrats/

19/04/2020

"In , the problem of largely begins where 70% of the divorced fathers do not pay alimony. Economic dependency forces many women with children to remain tied to brutal husbands."
https://reforum.io/en/2020/04/01/the-gender-policy-broadcast-by-the-power-of-vladimir-putin-glorifies-aggression/

19/04/2020

"It is important to understand that unless the present state-monopoly structure of the economy undergoes transformations, then, in the future the cartel of monopolies that are controlling the Russian economy today would be capable of corrupting any institutions and take control over the parliament, the courts, as well as everything else."
https://reforum.io/en/2020/03/18/vladimir-milov-liberation-from-monopolies-as-a-key-to-a-free-country-2/

19/04/2020

"It is my opinion, that the re-establishment of Russia ought to begin not with the dream that “all of ’s legacy is going to be canceled,” and even far less with some grandiose ideas for the next backwards time reversal, but rather with a thorough conversation on the topic of what is all about."
https://reforum.io/en/2020/03/16/vasily-gatov-how-should-russia-get-out-of-the-historical-rut/

16/04/2020

"Russia is bound to rather quickly reach the state of the classic failed power, where the authorities exist in one kind of reality universe and its society resides in quite another one, and these two worlds never interact."
Professor Vladislav Inozemtsev on what and plunging oil prices may mean for the future of .
https://reforum.io/en/2020/02/28/vladislav-inozemtsev-turning-off-the-dangerous-path/