30 Years after Russian Independence – Where is the Kremlin heading?

Believing communists tried to stop the development twice; the failed coup against Gorbachev that Yeltsin stopped and the attempt in the Duma, that was stopped by the shootings at the Russian parliament building, the White House. [...] The party membership was restricted to some 5.5 percent of the population in accordance with the principles of the dictatorship of the proletariat. [...] NATO declared that Russia was a strategic partner, and the country was also admitted to the G7, the group of the seven leading market economies of the world. [...] Mart Laar Former prime minister of Estonia 7 OUTLOOK FOR THE RUSSIAN CIVIL SOCIETY - Natalia Arno Between 2021 and 2022, Putin’s regime has completed the transition of the country from partial democracy, faking the appearance of rule of law, to the state of brutal authoritarianism, reminiscent of the darkest days of the Soviet Union. [...] Leonid Volkov Chief of staff to Alexey Navalny 20 WHAT IS THE JARL HJALMARSON FOUNDATION? Founded in 1994, in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation is the Swedish Moderate Party’s foundation for the international promotion of freedom, democracy and market economy.