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Jongejan, Bram (2020)

Navalny’s Anti-corruption Foundation in authoritarian Russia

Bachelor thesis | Russische Studies (BA)

To suppress civil organisations within the Russian Federation, the government is applying a broad range of tools to keep a grip on those CSOs. Those can be classified as government-orientated civil society; media control and discrediting groups, and; vague legal grounds. This also affects the Anti-corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexey Navalny. To stay active within the tightened public space, FBK is using different strategies in reaction to continue their fight against corruption. Those strategies can be seen in a selection in general in the use of internet campaigning; going to the European Court of Human Rights; smart voting; the populist strategy; connecting high officials with corruption; mass demonstrations, and; active use social media.

Navalny

Civil society

authoritarianism

Author

Jongejan, Bram

Note

M. Bader: This thesis meets the requirements of a BA thesis in Russian Studies. J.H.C. Kern: Overtuigend werkstuk met een zakelijk verslag van een degelijk en feitelijk onderzoek.

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Politiek, geschiedenis en economie

Supervisors

Bader, Max

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en