Gleb Pavlovsky

Wolfgang Petritsch

Uma Purushothaman

Pavel Pozhigailo

Mikhail Pogrebinsky

Irina Prokhorenko

Liliana Proskuryakova

Konstantin Pantserev

Petros Papaconstantinou

Egor Prokhin

Gleb Pavlovsky

Russian Federation

Russian political analyst and journalist.

Previous positions: Head of the Effective Politics Foundation; Editor-in-chief and Publisher of the Russian Journal and the Pushkin Magazine; President of the Russian Institute; Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation; Professor at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics.

Materials

Opinions

Return of the Refuseniks: Is Political Emigration Back in Russia?

We're not talking about how many liberal-minded people have emigrated so far, but rather about the fact that there are no prospects of a legitimate liberal force taking shape in Russia. So emigration, in whatever form, becomes a private affair rather than a political issue. Russian emigres based in the West easily integrate into local communities, and stop having any tangible influence on Russia.

25.06.2013

Opinions

Political Storm Around Navalny

Nobody has called Alexei Navalny a strong politician as of yet. He is an interesting public figure and sometimes implements very successful initiatives. He made a successful attack on United Russia that became rather famous because he timed the attack with the weakening of the government. However, he became indecisive and largely lost his advantageous position each time after achieving success in such attacks.

24.04.2013

Opinions

Looking Back at the Brezhnev Era

Totalitarianism in the USSR was unique because it was limited by its own declared principles. People had no reason to be afraid of the police. The atmosphere was entirely different than today. But this society recoiled from its own self and repudiated the goal besmirched by the crimes of the Stalinist period and the stagnation of the Brezhnev era. Now we have a society that does not have any goals.