
Russia’s Lonely Fleets
Pavel Luzin reflects on what NATO expansion means for the Russian Navy

Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin explores the intertwined relations between Russia and Iran across the post-Soviet space

Vakhtang Partsvania identifies a looming crisis for Russian car manufacturing

Riddle Russia on how the inability to influence the regime determines the scale of protests and shapes attitudes towards the war and personal strategies during the mobilization campaign

Dmitri Stratievski on how the splintering of the German Pacifist movement has been exposed by the war in Ukraine

Benjamin Tromly takes note of how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is prompting a surge of misleading and manipulative analogies to World War Two






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Fleeing the «War Parties»
Ksenia Smoliakova on how the Russian parties that supported the war are losing MPs and voters
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Russia’s war propaganda spectrum
Jade McGlynn highlights how the Kremlin’s propaganda strategy is not aiming to create a country of active war supporters
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Putin’s Agency and the Decision for War
Julian G. Waller revisits the underlying causes of the Russo-Ukrainian War
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Biometrics as a Kremlin tool
Riddle Russia on recognition technology as a new tool of population control
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Russia’s Dedollarization Delusion
Vladislav Inozemtsev reflects on whether Russia can actually challenge the hegemony of the US dollar
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The outcry of the ultrapatriots
Andrey Pertsev reflects on why Russian radical nationalists will not be able to unify a «club of angry patriots»
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Putin, the anti western crusader
Allyson Edwards unpacks the anti-western messaging of Vladimir Putin’s latest Victory Day speech
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The Great Patriotic War and the Specter of Internal Betrayal
Benjamin Tromly takes note of how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is prompting a surge of misleading and manipulative analogies to World War Two
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Pavel Luzin Specialist in international relations, expert on the Russian Armed Forces. Political scientist (PhD).
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Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin Lecturer in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University
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Vakhtang Partsvania Economist, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Administration and Public policy at RANEPA
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Dmitri Stratievski Political scientist and historian (FU Berlin), and director of the Berlin Center for East European Studies (Osteuropa-Zentrum Berlin e.V.).