Maria Chiara Franceschelli is a PhD student and research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where she studies the impact of civil society on the implementation of transformative environmental policies. Her doctoral research has focused on civil society and social movements, opposition and repression in contemporary Russia. She regularly collaborates with newspapers and research institutes and is the co-author, together with Federico Varese, of “Rebelling Russia. Repression and Opposition in Putin's Country” (Altreconomia 2024), a volume on Russian dissidents against the war in Ukraine.