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PONARS New Voices on Eurasia with Natalia Savelyeva

To Protest or Not to Protest: Can the Relatives and Wives of Soldiers Challenge the Russian State? In 2023, a year after the announcement of “partial mobilization”, a collective movement of soldiers’ wives began openly criticizing the Russian state and army as well as demanding the return of their mobilized husbands. More recently, the incursion of Ukrainian troops into Russian territory has sparked a new wave of public dissatisfaction, with drafted soldiers being sent to the front lines. Will the continuation of the war and the increased involvement of drafted soldiers further radicalize their relatives and lead to public unrest in Russia? This talk features new research by the Public Sociology Laboratory about the relatives and wives of drafted, mobilized, professional soldiers, and military volunteers. It will analyze the dynamics of collective action and how attitudes toward the state have developed among those closest to Russian soldiers sent off to war.