by Gordon M. Hahn As Russia prepares to commemorate the 1917 Bolshevik coup which followed the initial phase of its violent revolution from below and led to its second phase, the Russian civil war and ultimately to totalitarian communism, some Russian opposition figures are beginning to think seriously about how to fashion a regime transformation […]
by Gordon M. Hahn The recent revelations from opposition leader and Foundation for the Fight Against Corruption (FBK) founder Aleksei Navalnyi has had a limited ripple effect in society but may reflect somewhat more turbulence for the regime’s ruling groups and their leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin. On March 2 the FBK published an article […]
by Gordon M. Hahn As noted in a previous brief, the murder of Boris Nemtsov seems to have sparked an effort to realize his initiative to form a broad united democratic front, in particular for the 2016 Duma elections (https://gordonhahn.com/2015/03/18/nemtsovs-legacy-a-united-russian-democratic-opposition/). Almost all of Russia’s democratic parties and leaders have now agreed to such a front […]
