Notes
We are grateful to the LSE's International Relation's Department and to the LSE Suntory and Toyota International Centers for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) for providing generous funding for this research. We are also very grateful to Elizabeth Teague and Nikolai Petrov for providing useful advice on the protest data. All errors are solely our own.
1 A detailed comparison of Robertson's data with data assembled for this project is presented in another research paper (Lankina Citationforthcoming).
2 However, see Eisenstadt (Citation2004).
3 See ‘Obshcherossiiskii klassifikator ekonomicheskikh regionov’, available at: http://doc.unicor.ru/classifiers/classifiers-OKER_review.htm, accessed 15 January 2014.
4 The nature of the reporting did not allow us to collect information on the number of participants at every protest event; therefore, the number of protesters is in fact larger than the number we present here.
5 The suppression ratio is the number of protests which were suppressed divided by the overall number of protests.