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Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A Theory of Degenerate Autocracy
On December 14, 2022, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the FREE Network will host a seminar wi…
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Alexandra Polivanova on Political Repressions in Russia and the Work of Memorial
On November 29, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) invited Alexandra Polivanova from the Russian civ…
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Economic and Social Context of Domestic Violence
While the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the academic and policy interest in the causes and consequences of domestic vi…
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A War No One Wants? The Political Economy of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE Network) with two of its members, the Kyiv School…
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Does the Russian Stock Market Care About Navalny?
Alexei Navalny is the most prominent opposition leader in Russia today. During 2020, he entered not only the domestic Ru…
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Media Freedom in Eastern Europe
In recent years, press freedom in many Eastern European countries has increasingly come under threat. This policy brief…
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Political Implications of the Rise of Mobile Broadband Internet
In the last ten years, the world has experienced the dramatic rise of mobile broadband internet brought by third-generat…
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Social Media and Xenophobia
We study the causal effect of social media on hate crimes and xenophobic attitudes in Russia, using variation in social…
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Political Responsibility for Economic Crises
This brief summarizes the results of research on the political costs of large-scale economic crises. In a large historic…
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