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Democratic elections in Moscow?

July 15, 2019. “Even pretty repressive dictators claim to be democratic,” said UCLA Professor Daniel Treisman, to the New York Times. Holding an election while barring opposition figures “doesn't delegitimize the election as much as it might seem,” he said.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Censorship in Ukraine related to the ongoing war with Russia

Ukrainian intellectual Mykola Riabchuk defended current limitations on the freedom of speech in Ukraine as legitimate policies to counter disinformation in a time of war.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Laure Murat on the gilets jaunes

Jan. 12, 2019. "There is no need for doubtful references to history, it's the present and the future of our democracy which the gilets jaunes movement is questioning," writes Center for European & Russian Studies Laure Murat in the French newspaper Liberation. (In French)
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Laure Murat roils the #MeToo debate in France

In a new book, UCLA's Laure Murat dismisses the current discussion of #MeToo in France as a polemical misdirection and instead calls for a genuine debate on the issues of sexual harassment and assault in the country.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Modernization stalls in Russia under Putin's "informational autocracy"

At a recent book talk, Daniel Treisman characterized the current Putin regime as an informational autocracy that relies largely on nonviolent control of information flows and the disabling of opponents.
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

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