Andras Toth-Czifra

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  • Oct 20, 2023
    The Kremlin, for the most part, engineered the results it desired in Russia’s 2023 regional and municipal elections. However, the campaigns showed that a positive portrayal of...
  • Sep 8, 2023
    On Sept. 8-10, Russia is going to hold regional elections in 49 of its 83 regions — as well as in Crimea and the four Ukrainian regions it occupies — and several...
  • May 12, 2023
    Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine laid bare the problems with Russia’s domestic governance. The war caught the federal and regional governments unprepared and exacerbated...
  • Mar 21, 2023
    Andras Toth-Czifra reflects on how Russia’s regional economies withstood major economic pressure in 2022, and how there could be harsher tests to come in 2023
  • Jan 2, 2023
    Timelines have shifted in Russia’s war against Ukraine: It is going on far longer than anyone had planned.