Ilya Matveev

International scholar and educator

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The Landscape After the Battle. DOXA Journal in English, 16 February 2025

Insights from Russia on Academic Freedom During War (with Evgeny Roshchin). Academe, Winter 2025

How Russia’s Liberal Technocrats Became…Just Technocrats. Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, 16 October 2024

We Live in a World of Growing Imperialist Rivalries. Jacobin, 28 May 2024

How Patrushev’s Paranoia Consumed the Kremlin. The Moscow Times, 22 May 2024

When did it all go so horribly wrong? The Russian opposition turns to introspection. Russian Election Monitor, May 2024

Russian opposition: A strategic impasse. Russian Election Monitor, April 2024

Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, 22 February 2024

Putin’s electoral theatre: Past, present and future. Russian Election Monitor, September 2023

Losing battle for truth in Russian lecture halls. Index on Censorship, 27 July 2022

Wagnerization: How Putin Degraded the Russian State. LeftEast, 3 July 2023

The Split of the Elites and the Question of Expectations. Riddle, 27 June 2023

Sanctions against Russia: Here is Everything you Need to Know. Posle, 23 May 2022

Russia and China are moving closer together. Is this a new world order? openDemocracy Russia, 14 April 2022

Ordinary Russians Don’t Want This War (with Ilya Budraitskis). Jacobin, 24 February 2022

Kremlin in Decline? (with Ilya Budraitskis). New Left Review, 29 September 2021

Putin’s Majority? (with Ilya Budraitskis). New Left Review, 9 February 2021

The game's afoot: scenarios of power transition in Russia. openDemocracy Russia, 22 January 2020

In Russia, the Fight Is Alive. Jacobin, 21 August 2019

While everyone’s watching the football, the Russian government is raising the retirement age. openDemocracy Russia, 16 June 2018

Not Just an Artifact (with Ilya Budraitskis and Sean Guillory). Jacobin, 1 August 2017

The big game: Ulyukaev, Sechin and Russia's neopatrimonial privatisation. openDemocracy Russia, 21 November 2016

Russia, Inc. openDemocracy Russia, 16 March 2016

We’re Back to Lying. n+1, 12 February 2014