Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University and Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His most recent book Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia was published by Princeton University Press in April 2021.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is a Reader at King’s Russia Institute (King’s College London). Gulnaz specializes in federalism and subnational politics in Russia. Her most recent book, The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity was published in October 2020 by Oxford University Press.
Regina Smyth is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She specializes in the evolution of state-society relations and state responsiveness in autocratic and transitional regimes, focusing on elections, protest, and legislative decision-making. Her most recent book, Elections, Protest, and Autocratic Regime Stability: Russia 2008-2020, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2020.