Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?

Authoritarian propaganda and manipulation are leading democratic publics to see foreign autocracies as more powerful than they actually are.

Thirty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia is firmly in the grip of an autocrat. Where did Russia’s path go wrong?

Read the full essay here. In contrast to authoritarian power structures, which rest on a form of bureaucratic corporatism that makes the leader its hostage, the regime in Moscow rests…