Authoritarian Patronage
Authoritarian Patronage
Term (RU): Авторитарное покровительство
Schema: DefinedTerm
Working Definition
Systematic political, military, economic and intelligence support provided by the Russian regime to other authoritarian or hybrid regimes.
Analytical Use on This Site
The glossary entry is the controlled short definition; the mechanism and thesis pages supply partners, instruments, goals and observed limits (including the fall of Assad in 2024). The informal network of mutual support is sometimes labelled descriptively an “axis of autocrats”; the term is used only as a convenient label for observed patterns, not as a claim of formal alliance architecture.