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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Russian disinformation expert Ilya Yablokov tells The Conversation Weekly podcast about the president’s shifting relationship with conspiracy theories.
Vladimir Putin faces token opposition in the polls this weekend after his regime has viciously cracked down on opposition figures. He’s likely to be even more repressive in his next term.
Like a lot of authoritarian leaders, Putin is aware that a low turnout will make him look weak in the eyes of the world.
A West Point professor of Russian politics and foreign policy looks at the future of Russia without Putin.
A centralised system of government has allowed Putin to project power, but the country’s health care, schools, infrastructure and general quality of life have sharply deteriorated.
While Putin is all but guaranteed to win, war fatigue, electoral engineering and extreme risk-aversion suggest that the Kremlin is anxious to get these elections over and done with.
Russia’s armed forces continue to gain territory in Ukraine, at high cost to both sides.
Recent laws and pro-Putin sentiment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have sparked concern that the Central Asian country is backsliding on democracy.
Opposition from soldiers’ wives is an underestimated form of resistance against Vladimir Putin.
In Russia, individual sacrifice is an integral part of the national psyche.
Russia has looked for new trading partners as sanctions bite, but also suffered a brain drain.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Sending ground troops to Ukraine could provoke a wider and vastly more dangerous war with Russia,
The quick rise of Yulia Navalnaya in Russian politics closely mirrors the story of other female politicians who gain prominence after their husbands or fathers are no longer able to lead.
Most of Vladimir Putin’s opponents are either dead, in jail or in exile. But it might just be ordinary people who can take over the battle for democracy in Russia.
Russia appears to have seized the battleground initiative as the Ukraine war marks its second anniversary – but the conflict is far from over.
The Russian president still insists that Ukraine has been taken over by hostile pro-western elites over the past decade.
Donald Trump says he’s being politically persecuted, like Russian democracy martyr Alexei Navalny, who died while in a Russian prison on Feb. 16. A scholar says there’s no comparison between the men.
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