Author: Ilya Matveev

Ilya Matveev teaches politics at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, St. Petersburg.

Social Sources of Political Polarization in Russia

Two authors from the 2022 Socialist Register offer a compelling account of rising urban-rural and core-periphery polarization in Russia under the authoritarian nationalism of Vladimir Putin. Until recently, Putin was … Watch video »

International Relations • April 17, 2022 • Ilya Matveev and Oleg Zhuravlev