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Mutation of the «Bears»

Andrey Pertsev explains how the «United Russia» party is changing under the leadership of Vladimir Yakushev
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Putin’s cynical «Direct Line»
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 16−20)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 16−20)
By Andrey Pertsev
Transit cannot be halted

Tatyana Lanshina and Alexey Uvarov discuss how gas transit continues during wartime and the implications for Europe’s energy market
Russia’s Repressive Home Front

Dan Storyev on how the Kremlin scaled up its domestic repression since the start of the full-scale Ukraine invasion
Russia-Africa 2024 in Review: Opportunities, Drivers and Limits for Moscow’s Continental Expansion

Ivan U. Klyszcz takes stock of the year in Russia-Africa relations, pointing to the internal and external factors that led to an expansion in Moscow’s presence in the continent
Limits of Friendship: China — A Partner, Not an Ally

Aleksei Chigadaev summarises key developments in Russian-Chinese relations in 2024
The unwomanly face of Putinism

Maria Domanska on the feminist alternative to Russia’s autocratic violence
Top reads
  • In the kingdom of economic paradoxes

    Vladislav Inozemtsev discusses the crises in the Russian economy and possible scenarios for overcoming them

  • Transnistrian region and Abkhazia face an ‘energy winter’

    Denis Cenusa on how Moscow uses energy supplies as leverage over breakaway regions of Moldova and Georgia

  • Chechnya’s war on Ukraine

    Mark Youngman on the evolving role played by the Chechen security services in Ukraine

  • Breaking Bad: What Drives the Georgian Dream Party

    Vakhtang Partsvania explains how the actions of the Georgian Dream party go beyond the geopolitical choice between the West and Russia, deepening Georgia’s internal crisis and international isolation

  • Syria without Assad and Russia’s inertial assistance

    Platon Nikiforov explains how the fall of the Assad regime will affect Russian positions in the region

  • Limits of Friendship: China — A Partner, Not an Ally

    Aleksei Chigadaev summarises key developments in Russian-Chinese relations in 2024

  • How to signal loyalty: the case of Russian governors

    Andras Toth-Czifra on the KPIs of regional governance efficiency that the Kremlin requires

  • The unwomanly face of Putinism

    Maria Domanska on the feminist alternative to Russia’s autocratic violence

Authors
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
  • Tatyana Lanshina

    Independent expert in the field of energy
  • Alexey Uvarov

    Visiting researcher at the University of Bonn, Department of Eastern European History. Holder of the Scholars at Risk scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
  • Dan Storyev

    Journalist. Managing Reporter at OVD-Info
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