Natalia Zorkaya

Sociologist at the Levada Center (Moscow). In December 2016 she was Russia in Global Dialogue Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

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Cover for: Generation Putin

Generation Putin

Why Russian youth has disappointed hopes for democratic change

Russia’s younger generation have failed to build upon the democratic achievements of their predecessors of the 1990s. Surveys show a reversion to Soviet-era conformism, whether as passivity and cynicism, or individualism and status obsession.