Grigorii Golosov

Grigorii Golosov is Professor of Political Science, Project Director, Center for Democracy and Human Rights Helix, St. Petersburg

Lipstick on a crocodile: electoral authoritarianism in Central Asia

Western governments and investors have long indulged themselves by describing Central Asian states as “hybrid regimes” or “imperfect democracies”. The truth is that they are dictatorships occasionally “legitimising” themselves with highly engineered elections. Such electoral authoritarianism doesn

By Grigorii Golosov

/ 11 Mar 2011

Sovereign democracy, Egyptian style

The similarities between the Egyptian and Russian regime are striking, says Grigorii Golosov. Arguably, Mubarak’s was the more liberal one.

By Grigorii Golosov

/ 11 Feb 2011

Kushchevskaya: crime and punishment in a Russian village

The story of scores being settled with a brutal mass murder in southern Russia has hit the Russian national press. It reveals much about the links between organised crime and power in the country today and gives the lie to the propaganda machine’s claims of increasing happiness and stability.

By Grigorii Golosov

/ 3 Dec 2010