Margarita Zavadskaya is a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She obtained her doctoral degree in social and political sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

• Introduction. Facing the Global Pandemic: Regimes, Governance, and Post-Communism 1. (No) Blame for the Crisis: COVID-19 Sceptics and Political Support in Central-Eastern Europe During COVID-19 2. Legislative Advantages of Multiple Crises in the Europe In-Between 3. State-Building, The EU, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Making of Healthcare Reform in Ukraine 4. Bad Governance in Times of Exogenous Shocks: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia 5. Authoritarian Responses to Protest Participation During COVID-19: The Russian Case 6. Survival and Adaptation of Small Business in Russia: A Double Blow of Bad Governance and the Pandemic 7. Protest as an Appeal: How and Why Russians Struggled with Vaccinations in 2021 8. The State Failing People’s Expectations: Resentment at the Pandemic Policy in Belarus and Kazakhstan 9. The COVID-19 Pandemic and The Performative State in Uzbekistan

Margarita Zavadskaya is a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She obtained her doctoral degree in social and political sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

• Introduction. Facing the Global Pandemic: Regimes, Governance, and Post-Communism 1. (No) Blame for the Crisis: COVID-19 Sceptics and Political Support in Central-Eastern Europe During COVID-19 2. Legislative Advantages of Multiple Crises in the Europe In-Between 3. State-Building, The EU, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Making of Healthcare Reform in Ukraine 4. Bad Governance in Times of Exogenous Shocks: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia 5. Authoritarian Responses to Protest Participation During COVID-19: The Russian Case 6. Survival and Adaptation of Small Business in Russia: A Double Blow of Bad Governance and the Pandemic 7. Protest as an Appeal: How and Why Russians Struggled with Vaccinations in 2021 8. The State Failing People’s Expectations: Resentment at the Pandemic Policy in Belarus and Kazakhstan 9. The COVID-19 Pandemic and The Performative State in Uzbekistan

Margarita Zavadskaya is a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She obtained her doctoral degree in social and political sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

• Introduction. Facing the Global Pandemic: Regimes, Governance, and Post-Communism 1. (No) Blame for the Crisis: COVID-19 Sceptics and Political Support in Central-Eastern Europe During COVID-19 2. Legislative Advantages of Multiple Crises in the Europe In-Between 3. State-Building, The EU, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Making of Healthcare Reform in Ukraine 4. Bad Governance in Times of Exogenous Shocks: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia 5. Authoritarian Responses to Protest Participation During COVID-19: The Russian Case 6. Survival and Adaptation of Small Business in Russia: A Double Blow of Bad Governance and the Pandemic 7. Protest as an Appeal: How and Why Russians Struggled with Vaccinations in 2021 8. The State Failing People’s Expectations: Resentment at the Pandemic Policy in Belarus and Kazakhstan 9. The COVID-19 Pandemic and The Performative State in Uzbekistan