Russia: citizen demonstrations in a consolidated autocracy. The 2019 Moscow protests
Journal: Foro Internacional
Year: 2020

In 2019, Moscow saw political demonstrations as a result of the authorities’ blocking of the registration of opposition candidates for the local elections in Moscow. As the culmination of a series of citizen protests around different causes that spread throughout the country, these protests presented a real challenge to the political regime. Their context, evolution and possible implications are analyzed in this paper, both in correlation with the methods of “managed democracy” within Russia’s r