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Civil society in Russia has often been characterized as weak and underdeveloped (Howard, 2003; Zdravomyslova, 2008). However, after the election fraud in the winter of 2011/12 and the subsequent mass protests, civil society has been reconsidered as an important player. The protests were evidence that citizens can become drivers of social change even under repressive conditions in non-democratic states like Russia. The discourse about the developing civil society in Russia has been revitalized (see for example Lipman, 2011; Lipman & Petrov, 2012).
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Busuleanu, Š. (2014). Who Is Supported by Western Civil Society Promotion? The Russian Case. In: Beichelt, T., Hahn-Fuhr, I., Schimmelfennig, F., Worschech, S. (eds) Civil Society and Democracy Promotion. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291097_9
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