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Autocracies pose a puzzle for students of constitutional politics. While it is tempting to brush constitutions aside as a sham, this chapter draws upon insights from various regions in the world to analyze the role of Belarus’ basic law beyond its failure to limit the government. Due to its information-related properties it contains a political vision and defines the nature of the political community, thus striving to shape the identity of its members. Referenda as the only means to adopt amendments attest to the lasting Soviet legacy and the populist nature of the regime. The de jure and de facto dominance of the presidency in the last two decades has entrenched the state’s discursive hegemony in the public sphere, and the rule-of-law rhetoric functions as a major claim to legitimacy.
Balinski Y., Lepshokova Z., Balinskaya K., Вестник РУДН. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2025 Vol. 22 No. 3 P. 481–505
The purpose of this study is to identify the worries of Belarusian citizens in the context of economic, political, cultural, and global changes. Based on data obtained from semi-structured interviews in December 2024 (N = 43, including 29 women and 14 men, aged 18 to 66 years, all were citizens of Belarus), current worries were ...
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Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Корсун Р. П., Соболева О. Б., М.: Просвещение, 2025.
The textbook is addressed to students of the 9th grade of secondary school. It contains extensive theoretical and factual material on the social and political spheres of modern society, and the prospects for its development. The teaching staff offers multi-level questions and tasks for individual and collective work, teaches how to work with information. Diagrams ...
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Grigoryev L. M., Russian Journal of Economics 2015 Vol. 1 No. 3 P. 313–327
The demand for law on the part of the society (business, middle class, civil society) is not sufficient at the transformation stage — the reciprocal demand for law from the power elite is necessary. Contemporary theory states that in the contrary case the pressure on elites would require a more open regime of participation. In ...
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Ганин А. В., Славяноведение 2024 № 1 С. 31–38
The article examines the preparation of anti-Soviet uprisings by the leaders of the white emigration in Poland on the eve of the Genoa Conference of 1922 on the basis of documents from Russian and foreign archives, including the archives of the special services. The purpose of the uprisings was to disrupt the conference and undermine ...
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Zubarevich N., Сафронов С. Г., Региональные исследования 2024 № 1(83) С. 4–18
The article analyzes the level and dynamics of interregional inequality in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus and some European countries (in terms of NUTS-2 territorial units) according to available data from official statistics of the CIS countries (1995–2022) and Eurostat (2011–2022). The Gini coefficient, weighted by population and normalized depending on the number of territorial units, ...
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N. V. Zubarevich, Safronov S. G., Regional Research of Russia 2024 Vol. 14 No. 4 P. 513–524
The article analyzes the level and dynamics of interregional inequality in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus versus other European countries based on data from official statistics of CIS countries (1995–2022) and Eurostat (2011–2022). The Gini coefficient, weighted by population and normalized depending on the number of territorial units, is used as the main assessment parameter. ...
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Polyakov L., М.: Модест Колеров, 2025.
This book is a second volume of three volume edition of scholarly publications of professor Leonid Vladimirovich Polyakov (National Research University - Higher School of Economics). This volume includes papers and scholarly publications 1997–2020 on key phases of building Russian political system. Primary attention is paid to the constitutional construction, because an issue around the ...
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Zhilkin A., HSE University Journal of International Law 2025 Vol. 3 No. 1 P. 115–127
This commentary examines the key aspects and practical implications of the EU General Court’s decision in Case T-797/22, which concerns the legality of EU restrictive measures prohibiting the provision of legal advisory services to the Russian Government and Russian-based entities; while these measures are broad, they include exceptions allowing legal services essential for exercising the ...
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Orlov I. B., В кн.: От имперской к советской и постсоветской государственности: декларируемый разрыв или реальная преемственность?.: М.: ИНИОН РАН, 2024. Гл. 7 С. 354–362.
In the chapter on Soviet and post-Soviet political culture, the latter is considered by contrasting the discontinuity or continuity of its historical development. ...
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Брикульский И. А., Электоральная политика 2024 № 1 (11) С. 1–1
The author explores the issue of legal regulation of remote e-voting (REV) from the point of view of compliance with the principle of the rule of law, as well as the constitutional principles of free elections. The analysis of this material is limited exclusively to the legal framework of the REV. According to the author, ...
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Martynova E., Sushkov S., Evseev A. P. et al., Журнал ВШЭ по международному праву 2024 Т. 2 № 3 С. 52–63
The article is one of the first attempts to provide a scientific commentary on the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law of 2024 (hereinafter — the Convention). The authors analyse both general characteristics of the Convention — its legal nature, object and purpose — and ...
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Баженова О. Д., Архитектурное наследство 2023 № 79 С. 61–70
The study presents a collection of previously unknown architectural drawings that have been attributed to the workshop of the German architect Joachim Daniel Jauch (1688-1754), who worked at the courts of Augustus li and Augustus Ill. The collection is currently housed in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, while the documents ...
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Koshel A., Степанюк Д. Ю., Государство и право 2024 № 8 С. 115–125
The adoption by the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson oblasts at referendums on September 27, 2022 of decisions to join the Russian Federation within the framework of the procedure for self-determination of peoples poses the task of legal science to comprehend the existence of legal grounds. In doctrine and ...
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Snarski Y., Democratization 2025 Vol. 32 No. 1 P. 166–187
When and how does an environmental protest cycle affect election outcomes under electoral authoritarianism? Drawing on the case of the Bashkortostan republic, a Russian ethnic region, I leverage the spatial proximity to the protest site to identify its effects on parliamentary elections. The environmental protest cycle peaked in Bashkortostan around the regional government’s decisions to ...
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Степанюк Д. Ю., Koshel A., Gadzhieva A., Закон 2024 № 7 С. 196–207
The principle of self-determination has occupied a central place in the international legal agenda of the 20th century, decisively influencing the restructuring of geopolitical space and the formation of the contemporary global order, manifested in the union of more than 190 sovereign states within the framework of the United Nations. However, many issues related to ...
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Krasnov M., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2024 № 2(113) С. 138–157
The article is devoted to the analysis of the semi-presidential, or mixed, model (system) of power. This structure is of a particular interest, not least due to the fact that it creates favorable conditions for the authoritarian evolution. Of course, an authoritarian regime can form in both the presidential and parliamentary systems, but the semi-p ...
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Komlev E., Костылева У. В., Закон и право 2023 № 12 С. 50–55
The article discusses the issues of defining the concept of public property and presents an analysis of the legal regulation available in Russia. Based on an analysis of legislation, law enforcement practice (including the latest decision of the Constitutional Court dated September 22, 2023 No. 45-P), foreign experience (in particular, Germany, Spain, Argentina), the authors ...
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Svetlana Tulaeva, Henry L., Snarski Y., Europe-Asia Studies 2024 Vol. 76 No. 9 P. 1417–1438
Increased public awareness of environmental problems and the strengthening of diverse identities may lead to the emergence of “ethnic environmentalism.” These are movements that make environmental claims associated with the interests of an ethnic community. We develop this concept by examining protests in the Russian regions. Our findings suggest that ethnic identity facilitates environmental activism ...
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Royce D. P., Вестник МГИМО Университета 2021 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 48–93
Since their independence, Ukraine and Belarus have pursued relatively consistent but almost polar-opposite policies toward Russia. For the most part, the difference is explicable not as a product of differing material pressures and incentives (which do not, in fact, differ significantly), but as a consequence of differing popular and elite conceptions of Ukrainian and Belarusian national identities, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2023 № 2(153) С. 33–68
Analysis of the constitutional reform programs of three countries in Central Asia in 2021–2023 reveals two opposite trends. On the one hand, these reforms symbolize a modernization impetus — the devotion of elites to integration of their countries into the currently forming system of global constitutionalism. On the other hand, a reform strategy cannot ignore ...
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Suzdaltsev A., , in: The Presidentialization of Political Parties in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. P. 117–168.
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