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

Gilbert, Leah

doi:10.1080/09668136.2016.1250250

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“…The governing of Russian civil society has, through financial and institutional constraints, led to a 'crowding out' of civil society. In effect, civil society organisations that are critical of authorities are supplanted by the regime's local or neutral groups and, while critical NGOs continue to exist, they face a 'dramatically uneven playing field in the civic sphere' (Gilbert 2016(Gilbert , p. 1555. This unevenness can be traced back to the early 2000s when foreign funding to Russian NGOs began to drop.…”

Section: Russian Ngos: Contained Self-managed and Disruptivementioning

confidence: 99%

‘The Foreign Within’: State–Civil Society Relations in Russia

Stuvøy¹

2020

Europe-Asia Studies

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The development of Russian civil society is linked to authoritarian government, fear of 'colour revolutions' and the 'sovereign democracy' that legitimises state control of civil society. This article acknowledges the narrowing room for manoeuvre of contemporary Russian civil society and discusses NGOs' practices in the context of government pressures, the politicisation of transnational connections and the increasing geopolitical tension surrounding Russia. It describes the localisation and depoliticisation of Russian NGOs as well as their disruptive practices, and explains how narrowing civil society identities inform the selfgoverning of NGOs. Finally, it argues that seeing Russian civil society in simple dichotomies further narrows these identities.

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Section: Russian Ngos: Contained Self-managed and Disruptivementioning

confidence: 99%

‘The Foreign Within’: State–Civil Society Relations in Russia

Stuvøy¹

2020

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…I 2015 ble det innført et tillegg til 121-FZ, 21 hvilket innebaerer at organisasjoner som anses som trusler mot russisk nasjonal sikkerhet, kan erklaeres uønsket i landet. Uønskede NGO-er har blant annet forbud mot å operere i Russland og mot å finansiere russiske organisasjoner (Gilbert, 2016).…”

Section: Putin (2012-2018): Stabilisering Av Neopatrimonialisme Gjennunclassified

Hiv og aids i Russland: regimedynamikk og respons

Udal

2019

Nordisk Østforum

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HIV and AIDS in Russia: Regime Dynamics and Response Over the last two decades, the number of persons living with HIV in Russia has increased dramatically. According to WHO criteria, Russia is now facing a generalized HIV epidemic. This article analyzes how regime dynamics have influenced Russia's capacity to build a domestic response to the epidemic. Putin's cultural conservative turn in 2012 may have negatively affected the regime's ability to curb the spread of HIV. Evidence collected for this study indicates that three developments in particular have contributed to this. The first is the introduction of legislation aimed at reducing foreign involvement in Russia, which has weakened civil society as the main provider of prevention programs and services to key populations, and has forced global agencies to leave the country. Secondly, the increasing use of value-based conservative rhetoric after 2012 has meant better access to state structures, policy crafting and governmental funding for actors opposed to conventional methods of preventing HIV. Lastly, Putin's post-2012 cultural conception of the state has served to entrench Russian neopatrimonialism. As neopatrimonialism creates conditions unfavorable to successful implementation of reforms, including those necessary to deal with the ongoing epidemic, its stabilization may have assisted inaction as regards HIV.

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“…As the most frequently cited source of Chinese "authoritarianpositive" learning, Russia has passed increasingly restrictive and hostile laws on NGOs (2006), on "Foreign Agents" (2012), and on "Undesirable Foreign Organisations" (2015) of late (Gilbert 2016). Russia's "unfortunately effective crackdown on civil society" is widely seen as having "had much broader and more nefarious consequences" (Hooper and Frolov 2016: 12) on a global scale.…”

Section: Unsuccessful Local Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authoritarian Learning in China's Civil Society Regulations: Towards a Multi-Level Framework

Lang

2018

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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How do authoritarian governments learn? What kind of events and experiences can lead them to adopt more or less restrictive policies towards social actors? And, how are such lessons from others' experiences integrated into new policies? These questions have been addressed and answered quite differently from various disciplinary perspectives, focusing either on international dynamics such as “authoritarian diffusion” or on domestic policy learning. This article seeks to integrate different perspectives on authoritarian learning by proposing a typological framework of positive and negative learning from three distinct sources: authoritarian peers, democratic countries, and subnational policy experiments. I argue that such a comprehensive framework better accounts for both the relative importance and for the interaction of different kinds of learning in national-level policy processes. To illustrate the framework's added analytical value, I use an exemplary case study of recent legislative changes to China's civil society policy, which have been alternatively interpreted as part of an authoritarian “wave” or as another step in incremental domestic learning processes.

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

Cited by 36 publications

References 24 publications

‘The Foreign Within’: State–Civil Society Relations in Russia

‘The Foreign Within’: State–Civil Society Relations in Russia

Hiv og aids i Russland: regimedynamikk og respons

Authoritarian Learning in China's Civil Society Regulations: Towards a Multi-Level Framework

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