In the latest episode of Expert Opinions – Russia, Eurasia, our podcast with Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Alexis Lerner (former Visiting Scholar) about her scholarship on authoritarianism and dissent in Russia, particularly in the context of imprisoned Russian opposition leader and political activist Alexei Navalny. They also discuss Lerner’s book project on graffiti in post-Soviet countries and how the Russian authorities use graffiti as a way to drown out public dissent.
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