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The Salesman of Patriotism

Andrey Pertsev on how Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev tries to climb the power vertical and why he fails

Riddle Political News Week
The Shlosberg Case: New Rules for Systemic Opposition
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political week (June 9−13)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political week (June 9−13)
Riddle Economic News Week
Aren’t you all tired of winning?
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (June 9−15)
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (June 9−15)
From Keynes to Cannibalization: Russia’s Wartime Labor Crisis

Nicholas Trickett on how massive spending and demand impulse triggered by the scramble to expand military production and voluntary recruitment has created a system of de facto resource rationing

Mobilized Families and Regional Stability

Kirill Shanghaisky examines the role of the anti-mobilization movement of families and the Russian state's strategies for addressing it

Libyan «Mine» Under the «African Corps» Project

Platon Nikiforov on how the Kremlin found itself in new foreign policy constraints due to further manifestations of nepotism among its Libyan ally

Hydraulic Putinism: Misusing and abusing «stability»

Nick Trickett on how the war in Ukraine has shattered the traditional architecture of macroeconomic stability

Putin’s Grand Strategy for Sanctions Evasion

Eric Woods on Putin’s strategy to keep its military production supplied with vital components in the face of Western sanctions

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Authors
  • Kirill Shanghaisky

    Political Scientist

  • Platon Nikiforov

    Political analyst specializing in the Middle East

  • Eric Woods

    Independent researcher and consultant focused on security issues

  • Harold Chambers

    Analyst on conflict, nationalism, and security in the North Caucasus

  • Nurlan Aliyev

    Senior Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin

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