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Regina Smyth, "Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

New Books in Eastern European Studies

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The Linkage Between Elections and Protests

Yashin and navalni are astutely observing what's happening in the world. They recognize that mobilizing in the election as if they were running, even though they cannot is a huge evolution. And another really struck, striking moment in the protests was people holding signs of their election experience,. reporting the fraud they saw within these protests. So i think those three innovations, the use of new media and the linking of elections in protests, really transform the opposition.

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