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Moscow’s Haphazard North Caucasus Policy

Harold Chambers observes that tensions are high in the North Caucasus, with the Kremlin exacerbating them directly or via non-action
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  • Russia’s tired ‘Hydraulic Keynesianism’

    Nick Trickett suggests that Russia’s wartime economic spending plans are rapidly running out of steam

  • The Institutional Ecosystem of Russia’s Personalist Dictatorship

    Julian G. Waller evaluates which government institutions might have most weight in influencing a post-Putin Russia

  • Russia’s Vital (and Fragile) New Trade Artery To Iran

    Nurlan Aliyev sees the launch of Iran and Russia’s International North-South Transport Corridor as a major strategic move in a region fraught with complex risks and divergent interests

  • ‘Party Gold’

    Ksenia Smolyakova explains why Vladimir Putin should have been removed from the 2018 elections and how regional administrations are withdrawing some funds from budgets to keep municipal bureaucracy under control

  • Moscow’s Haphazard North Caucasus Policy

    Harold Chambers observes that tensions are high in the North Caucasus, with the Kremlin exacerbating them directly or via non-action

  • Putin after Mongolia

    Anton Barbashin on how Russia's symbolic victories on the international stage conceal growing uncertainties in its cooperation with key partners

  • Elections without candidates

    Ksenia Smolyakova explains why Russia's current elections are so low key

  • Russia’s counterterrorism strategy is backfiring

    Harold Chambers explains how the Russian security services' heavy handed tactics have compounded terrorist threats across the country

Authors
  • Harold Chambers

    Analyst on conflict, nationalism, and security in the North Caucasus
  • Ksenia Smolyakova

    Political Scientist
  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
  • Julian Waller

    Research Analyst, Center for Naval Analyses and Professorial Lecturer in Political Science, George Washington University
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