No. 210: Political Mobilization in the Run-Up to the Presidential Elections

Author(s): Andrei Semenov, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Jardar Ostbo, Oleg Zhuravlev, Svetlana Yerpyleva, Natalia Saveleva
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Volume: 210
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: 2017

This edition's four articles focus on 1) the prospects for the opposition in Russia's upcoming 2018 Presidential elections; 2) how Alexey Navalny’s political campaign strategy is confronting Russia’s political leadership with its first real challenge in years; 3) how the Kremlin has used mass demonstrations to counter and discourage popular mobilization in Russia; and 4) how local activism in Moscow and St Petersburg has been politicized in the wake of the Bolotnaya Square protests.

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