Foreign policy
Post-Soviet space

Energy crisis in Transnistrian region: Is Russian gas replaceable?

Denis Cenusa works through scenarios of how to overcome the energy crisis in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistrian region
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Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 23−27)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 23−27)
By Andrey Pertsev
Russia’s global war, north and south

Ivan U. Klyszcz maps out Russia’s use of international business ties, old Soviet links, covert operations, and disinformation to exert global pressure
Is Russia in a stagflation crisis?

Yakov Feygin joins the debate on whether the Russian government can withstand an economic storm of high interest rates and inflationary pressures
The Year of the Great Rift

Andrey Pertsev sumps up the key issues in Russian domestic politics in 2024
The enigma of the oil market

Vladislav Inozemtsev discusses the key parameters of the ‘oil industry forecast' for 2025
Frosty relations: Russia and the EU in the Arctic

Nurlan Aliyev explores the history and outlook of EU-Russia Arctic relations in 2025, spotting various points of contention and a few glimmers of cooperation
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Authors
  • Denis Cenusa

    Political analyst, associated expert at Eastern Europe Studies Centre (Lithuania) and Expert-Grup (Moldova)
  • Ivan U. Klyszcz

    Research fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Yakov Feygin

    Author of Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Economic Reform (Harvard University Press, 2024). He currently works as a consultant in public finance and…
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
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