
Proclamations versus Practice
Alexey Uvarov describes the precedents of state asset confiscation and the difficulties of deciding the fate of Russian money



Margarita Zavadskaya and Mikhail Turchenko examine Khodorkovsky's role in the Russian opposition

Neil Hauer assesses whether Syria’s victorious North Caucasus rebel fighters will settle in Syria, redeploy to Ukraine, or try to bring a jihadist insurgency back into Russia

Eric Woods outlines how Russia’s internationally isolated scientists are struggling to live up to Putin’s experimental weapons boasts

Vladislav Inozemtsev examines the role of the EAEU in helping Russia to evade the sanctions

Nurlan Aliyev analyses the extent of Moscow and Tehran’s ‘comprehensive strategic partnership agreement'






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Energy crisis in Transnistrian region: Is Russian gas replaceable?
Denis Cenusa works through scenarios of how to overcome the energy crisis in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistrian region
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The Russian language in the former USSR
Joe Luc Barnes studies how the use of the Russian language appears to be evolving (and dwindling) outside of Russia
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The Trap of Complacency: Russia and the Middle East in 2025
Platon Nikiforov discusses how the Kremlin is trying to adapt to the loss of positions in Syria
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Diplomacy without alliances
Nikolay Kozhanov discusses the nature of relations between Russia and the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf
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Divergent economic experiences of war: The rich get richer and the rest don’t
Jem Morrow observes rising inequalities and price hikes emerging across Russia in the wake of the full-scale Ukraine invasion
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Iran-Russia partnership: Friends forever?
Nurlan Aliyev analyses the extent of Moscow and Tehran’s ‘comprehensive strategic partnership agreement'
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Sanctions and the Eurasian Economic Union
Vladislav Inozemtsev examines the role of the EAEU in helping Russia to evade the sanctions
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Russian Rocket Theater
Eric Woods outlines how Russia’s internationally isolated scientists are struggling to live up to Putin’s experimental weapons boasts
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Andrey Pertsev Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
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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.
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Margarita Zavadskaya Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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Mikhail Turchenko Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, Ostrom Workshop