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‘Sistema’: How Putin’s Russia is governed
Photo: Andrew Kuznetsov via WikiMedia Commons The power of informal networks and the weakness of formal institutions in Russia have been widely noted. But the nature of the informal deals and...
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Boris Berezovsky: An unwanted ‘wanted man’
Photo: AJC1 via Flickr License CC BY-SA 2.0 Alena Ledeneva looks back on the career of the controversial Russian oligarch. Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was born on 23 January 1946 and died on 23 March...
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Alexei Navalny: Could a politically self-made man make it to the Kremlin?
Photo: MItya Aleshkovskiy [CC BY-SA-3.0] The leading anti-Putin blogger and activist Alexei Navalny was recently handed a five-year jail sentence following a widely criticised trial. But his mix of...
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Can Russia Modernize? A sociologist’s perspective
In her 2013 book Can Russia Modernise? Alena Ledeneva picked out key types of networks that make up sistema: Russia’s complex, ambiguous and sometimes surprisingly effective system of informal...
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Can Russia Modernise? A historian’s perspective
In her 2013 book Can Russia Modernise? Alena Ledeneva picked out key types of networks that make up Sistema: Russia’s complex, ambiguous and sometimes surprisingly effective systems of informal...
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Can Russia Modernise? The author’s perspective
In her 2013 book Can Russia Modernise? Alena Ledeneva picked out key types of networks that make up Sistema: Russia’s complex, ambiguous and sometimes surprisingly effective system of informal...
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Can Russia Modernise? An economist’s perspective
In her 2013 book Can Russia Modernise? Alena Ledeneva picked out key types of networks that make up Sistema: Russia’s complex, ambiguous and sometimes surprisingly effective systems of informal...
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