Today's guest is Yana Gorokhovskaia, a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute from 2016-2019. She researches authoritarian politics and civil society in post-Soviet states. Earlier this week, Gorokhovskaia authored an article at Eurasianet, titled “Moscow’s Local Election: Ghosts, Disqualification, and Real Political Competition,” about the recent electoral shenanigans in Russia's capital.Gorokhovskaia has written about local politics in Russia for years, and she was kind enough to come on the show to explain how she got onto this subject, and what the latest developments in the Moscow City Duma election mean more broadly for Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition.Follow Yana on Twitter here:https://twitter.com/gorokhovskaiaRead her article at Eurasianet here:https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-moscows-local-election-ghosts-disqualification-and-real-political-competitionSupport this very podcast here:www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockMusic and audio:Ну погоди, episode 14, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&t=7sОлег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ

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