Foreign policy
Post-Soviet space

What Is Happening Between Azerbaijan and Russia?

Nurlan Aliyev on the motivations behind Baku and Moscow’s actions amid the ongoing downturn in relations and potential trends in their future development
Riddle Political News Week
Putin’s New Obsession
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political events of the week (June 30 — July 4)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political events of the week (June 30 — July 4)
By Andrey Pertsev
Riddle Economic News Week
Spinning out
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (June 30 — July 4)
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (June 30 — July 4)
By Nick Trickett
Barracks Management

Andrey Pertsev on how Russia’s civilian elite is becoming militarized
Political Analogies and Wartime Russia

Julian G. Waller examines the use and misuse of interwar analogies to better understand wartime Russia
Evolution of Electoral Control

Ksenia Smolyakova on the new amendments to electoral legislation
Rotten foundations

Andras Toth-Czifra on what the waste management reform says about the problems with Russian policymaking
When Oil Becomes «Georgian»

Vakhtang Partsvania on how Russian oil and petroleum products bypass sanctions to reach the European market through Georgia
Top reads
  • 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

  • When Oil Becomes «Georgian»

    Vakhtang Partsvania on how Russian oil and petroleum products bypass sanctions to reach the European market through Georgia

  • 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

  • The Salesman of Patriotism

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

  • Political Analogies and Wartime Russia

    Julian G. Waller examines the use and misuse of interwar analogies to better understand wartime Russia

  • Rotten foundations

    Andras Toth-Czifra on what the waste management reform says about the problems with Russian policymaking

  • Evolution of Electoral Control

    Ksenia Smolyakova on the new amendments to electoral legislation

Authors
  • Nurlan Aliyev

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

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

    Political Scientist
  • Andras Toth-Czifra

    Political analyst, author of the analytical blog «No Yardstick»
  • Vakhtang Partsvania

    Economist, Professor of Management at Caucasus University
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