https://web.archive.org/web/20231126095958/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/russian-journalists-ukraine-war-wagner-group/676064/

Journalist Anna Nemtsova on Russian public society decline and losing hope after the post-Soviet period optimism wrt change. Places the turning point in 2011/2012. I worked in Moldova briefly then, and they were aiming to divert their exports to anyplace else than Russia. Kyrgyzstan had just had a revolution in spring 2010 (both towards democracy and Russian influenced). 2014 I wasn't allowed to travel from Kyrgyzstan through Moscow as P had not been seen in public for a week or two, while the Donbas conflict took place (MH17 was shot down a few months earlier). Late 2012 Russia signed onto OGP to withdraw ealry 2013 https://www.opengovpartnership.org/stories/russia-withdraws-from-open-government-partnership-too-much-transparency/ faving a controlled openness (through registered entities) above individual rights. Russia's foreign agents law is also from 2012. So seems to chime with my own experiences.

Unpacking vaccine “hesitancy:” the spectrum of vaccine acceptance. (2021, October 5). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/10/05/unpacking-vaccine-hesitancy-the-spectrum-of-vaccine-acceptance/

Wood, S., & Schulman, K. (2021). When Vaccine Apathy, Not Hesitancy, Drives Vaccine Disinterest. JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.7707

Excitement can be hard to generate among students. How can this be done in non-forceful ways