2022
DOI: 10.1111/lasr.12631
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Turning on the lights? Publicity and defensive legal mobilization in protest-related trials in Russia

Abstract: How and to what extent do defense actors use publicity in trials of protesters in contemporary Russia? Why do they fight over strategic uses of publicity if “everything is decided in advance”? Drawing on original ethnographic research, this article finds, first, that publicity accompanies legal resistance to politicized prosecutions and is inventively used by the defense. Second, mobilization of publicity creates opportunities for the defense to bargain with and keep the prosecution in check. Third, the relati… Show more

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