Find the new article by Christine DUGOIN-CLÉMENT, Affiliate Professor at Sorbonne Business School.
Ukraine has just renewed martial law for 90 days, constitutionally postponing the autumn parliamentary elections and, potentially, the 2024 presidential election. At the same time, Russia is also due to hold a presidential election in the spring of 2024.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, asserted that Vladimir Putin would be easily re-elected; however, it can be observed that, with less than a year to go to the polls, measures are being taken to prolong the effects of the 2016 and 2019 laws that tended to tighten the control of power over the Russian Internet. [...]