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The paper illustrates the governement’s agility in response to opposition protests and the debacle of parliamentary elections. We explore the evolution of Kremlin strategies from a reliance on cooptation to more coercive strategies—a trend that continued after Putin’s election in March....

The paper illustrates the government's agility in response to opposition protests and the debacle of parliamentary elections. We explore the evolution of Kremlin strategies from a reliance on cooptation to more coercive strategies — a trend that continued after Putin's election in March. These...

Compared with other transition countries Russia faces the burden of extreme cold. This is not, however, strictly a function of geography. Soviet location policy directly affected the average (population weighted) temperature of the Russian economy. Soviet policy moved industry and population...