Russia’s “Foreign Agents” Legislation: The Case of “International Memorial”
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Abstract
The thesis will analyze the "foreign agents" legislation adopted in the Russian Federation.The analysis will be carried out at the intersection of political and legal realms.The thesis will aim to posit the laws within the theoretical framework of "authoritarian legality" and the "dual state" system introduced by Schmitt and Fraenkel, simultaneously exploring the law's instrumental role in contemporary Russia.The thesis's legal part will explore existing regulations and the legal repercussions of the "foreign agent" designation.It will also be aimed at comparing the "foreign agents" legislation's provisions with its United States counterpart and the newly adopted domestic legislation of 2022.The thesis's empirical part will focus on the covert consequences of the "foreign agent" designation and the "survival strategies" adopted by designated persons to maintain their functioning.Specific attention will be paid to the "International Memorial" case as an overtly politicized example of the legislation's usage.Zselyke Csaky, "Nations in Transit 2021.The Antidemocratic Turn," Freedom House, April 28, 2021, https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/NIT_2021_final_042321.pdf.12 Nick Robinson, "Foreign Agents" in an Interconnected World: FARA and the Weaponization of Transparency," Duke Law Journal 69, no. 1 (2020): 1086.13 Maria Tysiachniouk et al., "Civil Society under the Law 'On Foreign Agents': NGO Strategies and Network Transformation," Europe-Asia Studies 70, no. 4 (2018): 619.14 Geir Flikke, "Resurgent authoritarianism: the case of Russia's new NGO legislation," Post-Soviet Affairs 32, no. 2 (2016): 125.15 Irina Rukina and Anna Anfimova, "Protivodejstvie destruktivnomu vozdejstviyu antigosudarstvennoj deyatel'nosti inostrannyh agentov," Obshcherossijskaya obshchestvennaya organizaciya "Rossijskaya akademiya estestvennyh nauk," accessed March 30, 2022, https://raen.info/upload/000/files/project/47_68-2/12.pdf.16 Sergey Elishev, "Specsluzhby inostrannyh gosudarstv, mezhdunarodnye organizacii i SMI, podderzhivaemye imi, kak sub"ekty manipulyativnogo vozdejstviya na molodezh," Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta 24, no
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".