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Putin as Captain Impossible, Hidden Agenda, Sechin’s Spetsnaz

Russian media roundup, December 2-8, 2017

Details: 08 December 2017

In this week’s roundup, Maxim Trudolyubov comments on Vladimir Putin’s announcement to run for a fourth term; Kirill Rogov argues that current discussions about Putin’s future prime minister are futile; New Times profiles former FSB head, General Oleg Feoktistov who, until recently, led Igor Sechin’s special services group among Russia’s siloviki; Yekaterina Shulman discusses “accidental” democratization; Ivan Lyubimov recommends partial decentralization as a first step to reforming the political sphere.

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IMR and AEI Hold a Discussion on Russia’s 2018 Election

Details: 06 December 2017; Olga Khvostunova

On December 5, IMR’s Vladimir Kara-Murza spoke with Leon Aron, director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, on Russia’s upcoming presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin is viewed as the prohibitive favorite. Still, many issues continue to concern Russia watchers in the West.

Details: Media Must-Reads

Foreign Agents, Alternative Internet, Lack of Optimism

Russian media roundup | November 24 — December 1, 2017

Details: 01 December 2017

In this week’s roundup, New Times discusses what the new bill forcing Western-funded outlets to register as “foreign agents” implies in reality; Oleg Demidov details why Russia offered to develop a separate Internet for the BRICS countries and how this could cause the fragmentation of the World Wide Web; Boris Kolonitsky talks about memory politics and what unites Russian people today; Oleg Kharkordin poses the question of whether Russia has a republican future; Aleksei Makarin continues the debate on how Russia can achieve economic and political development via transitional institutions.

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Asymmetrical Response, Russian Whistleblowers, Heirs of Sanctions

Details: 17 November 2017

In this week’s roundup, Ivan Pavlov explains the latest media law in Russia that would force foreign media to register as “foreign agents’’; Damir Gainutdinov shares the findings of Agora’s report titled “A Hundred Russian Whistleblowers”; Grigory Yavlinsky makes the case that in the long term, anti-Russian sanctions are a critical concern for the country; The Bell details Economic Minister Maxim Oreshkin’s plan to reform his office and set up a new standard for other state agencies; Sergei Guriev writes that Russia needs to establish transitional institutions first if it wants to move beyond its “dependency path.”

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Perspective Prime Ministers, Russian Revolution and the Legacy of Bolshevism

Russian media roundup, November 4-10, 2017

Details: 10 November 2017

In this week’s roundup, New Times outlines four potential candidates for the position of prime minister during Putin’s presumed fourth term; Gleb Pavlovsky contends that the central political conflict in today’s Russia is not between Putin and Navalny, but between Putin and those who support a transition to the post-Putin future; Vladimir Pastukhov discusses the ways the October Revolution can influence Russia in the 21st century; Grigory Yavlinsky argues that the rise of Bolshevik power in Russia was the real geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century; Konstantin Tarasov explains why the Bolsheviks won in 1917.

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