Valdai Club

Mikhail Delyagin

Igor Delanoe

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Mary Dejevsky

Alexander Dunaev

Nirmala Dorasamy

Franck Düvell

Tsogtbaatar Damdin

Shen Dingli

Mikhail Dmitriev

Russian Federation

President of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR)

Materials

Changes in Political Sentiments of Russian Citizens After the Presidential Elections

Given the sheer political impassiveness of the overwhelming part of population in Russia, the implementation of the protest-revolutionary scenario is not viable under current conditions. However, its rising legitimacy in society increases sensitivity to the potential triggers of mass protests. The new wave of the economic crisis could become one of such triggers.

No One Understands the Political Situation in Russia

The situation is very complex and is developing very rapidly. Putin has only recently emerged from the highly complicated presidential elections, which represented a powerful political pressure on him. And now the situation is being compounded by the protest rallies in Moscow, which have entered a violent stage, and the global economic crisis.