No. 271: Duma and Regional Elections 2021

Author(s): Grigorii V. Golosov, Tatiana Tkacheva, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble, Tatiana Golova, Leah Silinsky
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Volume: 271
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2021

The topic is the Duma and Regional Elections of 2021. Grigorii V. Golosov discusses the use of tools to allow United Russia to retain its two-thirds majority in the Duma; Tatiana Tkacheva aims to show that the level of authoritarian manipulations of the election is unprecedented; Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble describe the basic design of the tactical voting strategy of Team Navalny’s “Smart Voting” project; Tatiana Golova analyzes the case of the Khabarovsk region to show how elections are discussed on Russian-language social media; Leah Silinsky outlines the various protests that have taken place in response to inadequate waste management.

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