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Alexey Levinson

Alexey Levinson

Head of the Socio-Cultural Research Department, Levada Center

Dr Alexey Levinson has worked as Head of the Research Department of Socio-Cultural Research at the Yuri Levada Analytical Center since 2003. From 1972 to 1988 he worked as a sociologist in several Moscow research organisations and researched urbanisation, leisure, youth culture, and the military. In 1988 he joined VCIOM, the first Soviet and later Russian public opinion research centre. He is the author and co-author of four books on sociology and social anthropology in Russia. He is also a columnist for Vedomosti, RBC newspapers, and the NZ Magazine. Dr Levinson is also professor at Moscow Higher School of Economics (State University).  
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Economy, European Union, Future, Russia, Ukraine, United States, West
Updated: April 25, 2022

Agenda

Authoritarianism, Economy, Future, Russia
Recent Poll of Levada Centre: Dance of Little Swans Back on State TV?
LMC 2022
Authoritarianism, Future, Russia, Ukraine
“Хотят ли русские войны?” Russian Self-Perception from Within and Without
LMC 2022
Russia
Russian Society: Fertile Ground for a Noxious Regime?
LMC 2015
European Union, Russia
Do Sanctions Really Work?
LMC 2016
Russia
What Are Russia’s Values?
LMC 2017
Democracy, Russia
Russia, Quo Vadis?
LMC 2021
2 more

Articles

Russia, West
The Deepening Abyss Between Russia and the West

Most readers will have been shocked by President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch wage large-scale war on 24 February. They will also have been shocked to learn about the crimes that Russian troops have committed in the so-called ‘special military operation’ zone. And they will…

Alexey Levinson
LMC 2022
A participant in a protest in Simferopol against missile strikes on Syria burns images of US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May. Russian attitudes towards Donald Trump have changed since he took office.
Russia, United States, West
Russia’s Opinion of the US and its President

Antagonism between Russia and US will likely continue, but one cannot exclude a possible shift in relations.

Alexey Levinson
LMC 2018

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