Author: Danica Jenkins
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Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold: Alexei Navalny’s civic revolution and the unrest in Belarus
The post-election protests in Belarus and the poisoning of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny are cemented together by something greater than cause and effect. Certainly, what is unfolding in Belarus is a reminder that the collapse of the USSR is an ongoing affair. Yet while it has the hallmarks of other post-Soviet revolutions, what is…