NGOs and the Power Ministries in Russia: from Resistance to Cooperation?

The idea for this issue came to me after reading Brian Taylor’s article “Law Enforcement and Civil Society in Russia”, published in March 2006 and brought to our attention by Myriam Désert and Gilles Favarel during their seminar at the école de Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in 2007. This stimulating article nuances the idea that Russian civil society is under threat by an increasingly authoritarian government.The usual picture of post-Soviet society today is one in which NGOs are targete...