The Kremlin blamed our work when it declared Russia’s most respected polling firm a ‘foreign agent.’

On Sept. 5, Russia’s Justice Ministry declared the country’s leading independent polling organization, the Levada Analytical Center, to be a “foreign agent.” …

The Levada Center has generated a remarkable trove of information about Russia’s society, politics, and economy over the past quarter century. Its high-quality work inspired us to collaborate with it on numerous projects, including the study that served as the initial pretext for labeling it a foreign agent. CONT.

Theodore P. Gerber (U. of Wisc.-Madison) & Jane R. Zavisca (U. of Ariz.), The Monkey Cage

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