Liudmila Listrovaya is visiting assistant professor at Amherst College and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. She is a political and environmental sociologist specializing in Russian transnational repression, authoritarianism, and Russian diaspora in Serbia and Georgia.
Vladimir Putin has signed a new “civic death” law that targets Kremlin’s critics everywhere. The goal is to intimidate Russian citizens from speaking up about Putin’s crimes. The world’s democracies must counter this new repressive tool.
