Crowding Out Civil Society: State Management of Social Organisations in Putin’s Russia

Leah Gilbert

Europe-Asia Studies, 2016, vol. 68, issue 9, 1553-1578

Abstract: There is considerable debate about the impact of the 2006 NGO Law and related Kremlin policies on social organisations in Russia. This article uses interviews with members of organisations focusing on human rights, women, and youth to assess the effects of these policies on civil society. It finds that groups that are critical of the regime have been systematically pushed out of the public sphere and supplanted by groups that are either neutral to, or in favour of, the regime. This finding has implications for the future development of Russian civil society and demonstrates a way that non-democratic rule has been ‘upgraded’ in Russia.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1250250

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