Julia Pettengill

Julia Pettengill is the co-chair of the Russia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy think tank based in London.

Putin’s draconian new laws – a sign of his limited options?

After previous repressive measures by the Kremlin, the ‘March of Millions’ in Moscow on 12th June was expected to turn ugly. Raids on leading oppositionists had many talking about another 1937 (the year of Stalin’s Great Purge), yet the expected provocation and police brutality did not happen. Jul

By Julia Pettengill

/ 19 Jun 2012