Elections
Politics

Devoid of substance: the 2024 presidential elections

Ksenia Smolyakova examines how voters in Russia's regions missed out on the country's main election campaign

Riddle News Week
Vote or You’ll Walk Away Empty-Handed
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (March 11−15)
The unbearable lightness of Georgia’s car re-exports

Vakhtang Partsvania discusses how, where and why car re-exports from Georgia are expanding against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, and casts light on rising sanctions risks

Explaining The Rise of Telegram

Olga Logunova looks at how Russia’s banning of Twitter and Meta since the war in Ukraine began have helped push Telegram into social media dominance

Political bloc without borders and boundaries

Andrey Pertsev examines Sergey Kiriyenko’s empire

The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus

Nurlan Aliyev untangles some of the complex dynamics unfolding across the region since Azerbaijan’s reconquest of Nagorno Karabakh

The Kremlin’s Problem with Cities

Andras Toth-Czifra investigates the central government’s latest attempts to stamp its authority over any excessively strong-minded municipal authorities

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Authors
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent

  • Ksenia Smolyakova

    Political Scientist

  • Vakhtang Partsvania

    Economist, Professor of Management at Caucasus University

  • Olga Logunova

    Research Associate at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London. Specializes in sociology and media studies with a focus on social media communication, digital culture…

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