Human Rights in Russia

Creeping authoritarianism and growing nationalism are undermining democracy and rule of law in Russia. But Russia’s post-Soviet political trajectory remains a critical Euro-Atlantic security concern.

To better understand the state of political development, particularly human rights and rule of law, CSIS has, since 2001, conducted nearly a dozen public opinion surveys examining a range of issues on the following topics:

• Absent Memory
• Activism and Social Marketing
• Attitudes toward Human Rights
• Democracy Assistance and Elections
• HIV/AIDS
• Military Abuse
• The North Caucasus
• Police Violence
• Russian Domestic Politics and U.S. Policy
• Views of Russian Women on Trafficking, Prostitution, and Discrimination

CSIS is grateful to the donors that have made this work on human rights in Russia possible:

• Ford Foundation (2004-present)
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (2004-2007, 2009)
• The Glaser Progress Foundation (2002-2004)
• The National Council for Eurasian and Eastern European Research (NCEEER) (2003)
• The State Department- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (2002-2005)
• USAID (2002-2004)