Presidential Elections in Russia: Past, Present, Putin

The International Institute of Social History and the Moscow Times jointly organize an event to reflect on Russia's presidential elections, past, present and future. 17 March Putin is scheduled to be elected president of the Russian Federation for yet another six years in office, in spite of launching a devastating war against Ukraine and letting oppositional politician Alexei Navalny die in prison. Elections in Russia have become a farce, a kind of political theatre or circus that has little to do with democracy. The field of candidates is tightly controlled, opposition politicians sidelined, jailed or murdered and the election results are falsified. How did this come about? When was democracy lost in Russia – or was it perhaps an empty letter from the very start? With presentations by IISH-researcher Gijs Kessler and Russian journalist in exile Mikhail Fishman, joined for a panel discussion by Samantha Birkhead (Moscow Times), Alexander Gubsky (Moscow Times) and Kristina Petrasova (Free Russia NL). Programma is in het Engels, toegang gratis, wel graag vooraf registreren via event@iisg.nl