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The SCO after 2022: Russian Ambitions and Reality
Anton Barbashin on how the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a useful but secondary Eurasian forum for Moscow, became an important platform Читать на русском Photo: Scanpix Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) occupied an important, though not priority, place in Moscow’s foreign-policy calculations.
Why the Kremlin fears even the ‘managed opposition’ in Russia
In the weeks leading up to the Duma elections, the Kremlin accelerated what is known in the country as “ballot sterilisation”. It removed the remaining risk factors that could demonstrate any form of public dissatisfaction. Candidates of the so-called managed opposition parties, such as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), have been arrested or barred from running, thus diminishing the prospect for a protest vote against the governing United Russia.
Why the Kremlin fears even the ‘managed opposition’ in Russia
In the weeks leading up to the Duma elections, the Kremlin accelerated what is known in the country as “ballot sterilisation”. It removed the remaining risk factors that could demonstrate any form of public dissatisfaction. Candidates of the so-called managed opposition parties, such as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), have been arrested or barred from running, thus diminishing the prospect for a protest vote against the governing United Russia.
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