Ilya Matveev is a researcher and lecturer based in St Petersburg, Russia. He is a founding editor of the online publication Openleft.ru and a member of the research group Public Sociology Laboratory.
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Published in: oDRWhile everyone’s watching the football, the Russian government is raising the retirement ageThis move signals the end of the Russian federal state’s social commitments. RU
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Published in: oDRThe big game: Ulyukaev, Sechin and Russia's neopatrimonial privatisationThe arrest of a federal minister shows that, in Russia, the government and the country’s largest state company are increasingly turning to force. Русский
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Published in: oDRRussia, Inc.From “structural reforms” of the 2000s to austerity policies today, neoliberalism has been and remains an organic part of the Putin regime. RU