Timothy Frye in Vox
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader threatening Putin’s rule, explained
Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, was quoted in Vox.
Navalny has worked to depose Putin for a decade. Now’s his greatest chance.
The greatest challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule is a man whose name the dictator won’t say and whom he has tried to kill: Alexei Navalny....
... Second, Putin’s party, United Russia, got caught rigging the December 2011 legislative elections. Fraud in Russian elections was normal, and there wasn’t more than usual during that particular vote, “but examples of fraud were spread quickly on the internet for the first time,” said Timothy Frye, a Columbia University professor and author of the forthcoming Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia.