Reexamining Russia: Institutions and Incentives

The 15 states of the former Soviet fall into three broad categories, largely defined by fault lines of history and culture.

This essay chronicles Vladimir Putin’s successful efforts to transform Russia from the flawed democracy of the 1990s to the fully fledged authoritarian regime it is today, with falsified elections; censorship…

The recent protests in Russia raise the question of whether the Putin regime could fall to a “color” or electoral revolution like those that have ousted other autocratic regimes in…