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7 - The Post-Soviet Playground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson
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University College London
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Political technology is the reason why so few post-Soviet states are democracies. Georgia has become a mini-Russia, with the ruling Georgian Dream party using many of the same techniques that the Kremlin used to consolidate power in the 2000s. And to rule over and ignore a society that is overwhelmingly pro-European. Moldova was a case study of state capture by a single oligarch using political technology. The new government of Maia Sandu has been struggling to overcome his legacy since 2019.

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Georgian DreamIvanishviliMoldovaSanduVlad PlahotniucBelarusLukashenka
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Political Technology
The Globalisation of Political Manipulation
 , pp. 335 - 364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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