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Divergent economic experiences of war: The rich get richer and the rest don’t

Jeremy Morris observes rising inequalities and price hikes emerging across Russia in the wake of the full-scale Ukraine invasion
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Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (January 6−10)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (January 6−10)
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The Trap of Complacency: Russia and the Middle East in 2025

Platon Nikiforov discusses how the Kremlin is trying to adapt to the loss of positions in Syria
The Russian language in the former USSR

Joe Luc Barnes studies how the use of the Russian language appears to be evolving (and dwindling) outside of Russia
Diplomacy without alliances

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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
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
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Authors
  • Jeremy Morris

    Ethnographer of postsocialist societies and is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
  • Platon Nikiforov

    Political analyst specializing in the Middle East
  • Joe Luc Barnes

    Journalist. MA, Russian and East European Politics from the University of Oxford. His book, «Soviet Supernova: Travels in the Former USSR,» comes…
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
  • Nikolay Kozhanov

    Research Associate Professor at the Gulf Studies Center (GSC) of Qatar University. Non-Resident Scholar at the Economics and Energy Program of the Middle East…
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