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How to signal loyalty: the case of Russian governors

Andras Toth-Czifra on the KPIs of regional governance efficiency that the Kremlin requires

Riddle News Week
Putin’s ultra-optimism
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 2−6)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 2−6)
Syria without Assad and Russia’s inertial assistance

Platon Nikiforov explains how the fall of the Assad regime will affect Russian positions in the region

Chechnya’s war on Ukraine

Mark Youngman on the evolving role played by the Chechen security services in Ukraine

Transnistrian region and Abkhazia face an ‘energy winter’

Denis Cenusa on how Moscow uses energy supplies as leverage over breakaway regions of Moldova and Georgia

Breaking Bad: What Drives the Georgian Dream Party

Vakhtang Partsvania explains how the actions of the Georgian Dream party go beyond the geopolitical choice between the West and Russia, deepening Georgia’s internal crisis and international isolation

In the kingdom of economic paradoxes

Vladislav Inozemtsev discusses the crises in the Russian economy and possible scenarios for overcoming them

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Authors
  • Andras Toth-Czifra

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

  • Platon Nikiforov

    Political analyst specializing in the Middle East

  • Andrey Pertsev

    Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent

  • Mark Youngman

    Founder and head of the open-source intelligence and research agency Threatologist.

  • Denis Cenusa

    Political analyst, associated expert at Eastern Europe Studies Centre (Lithuania) and Expert-Grup (Moldova)

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