Andrey Pertsev summarizes the political events of the week (February 17−21)
Andrey Pertsev summarizes the political events of the week (February 10−14)
Andrey Pertsev on Kiriyenko’s modernist project for the governance of society
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (February 3−7)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (January 27−31)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (January 20−24)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (January 13−17)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (January 6−10)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 23−27)
Andrey Pertsev sumps up the key issues in Russian domestic politics in 2024
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 16−20)
Andrey Pertsev explains how the «United Russia» party is changing under the leadership of Vladimir Yakushev
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (9−13 December)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (December 2−6)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (November 25−29)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (November 18−22)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (November 11−15)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (November 4−8)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (October 28 — November 1)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (October 21−25)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (October 14−18)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (October 7−11)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (September 30 — October 4)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (September 23−27)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (September 16−20)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (September 9−13)
Andrey Pertsev sums of the week (September 2−6)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (August 26−30)
Andrei Pertsev explains why popular Telegram channels loyal to the authorities were now labeled as «foreign agents»
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (August 19−23)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (August 12−16)
Andrey Pertsev sums of the week (August 5−9)
Andrey Pertsev sums of the week (July 29 — August 2)
Andrey Pertsev explains why the Kremlin is building a model of virtual Russia for perpetuity
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 22−26)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 15−19)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 8−12)
Andrey Pertsev explains how Putin prevented the Defense Minister from forming his own team, and what it might lead to
Andrey Pertsev sums of the week (July 1−5)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (June 24−28)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (June 17−21)
Andrey Pertsev explains how reshuffling in the cabinet and the presidential administration reflects the balance of interests of Russia’s elite groups
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (10−14 June)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (June 3−7)
Andrey Pertsev explains why Vladimir Putin has exiled Andrey Turchak to Altai
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (May 27−31)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (May 20−24)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (May 13−17)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (May 6−12)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (April 29 — May 3)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (22−26 April)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (April 15−19)
Andrey Pertsev explores the bleak prospects of the Russian systemic opposition
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (April 8−12)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (April 1−5)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (March 25−29)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (March 18−22)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (March 11−15)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (March 4−8)
Andrey Pertsev examines Sergey Kiriyenko’s empire
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (February 26 — March 1)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (February 19−25)
Andrei Pertsev sums of the week (February 12−16)
Andrei Pertsev sums of the week (February 5−11)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (January 29 — February 2)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (January 15−19)
Andrey Pertsev runs through who among Russia’s elite «youth» could one day take the place of Vladimir Putin
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (January 8−12)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the first week of 2024
Andrei Pertsev explains how the presidential administration is trying to make 'collectivism' one of the organic 'staples' of society, holding it together
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (December 25−29)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (December 18−22)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (December 11−15)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (December 4−8)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (November 27 — December 1)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (November 20−24)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (November 13−17)
Andrei Pertsev explains how and why the main engine of Putin's system of power will run of its fuel
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (November 6−10)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (October 30 — November 3)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (October 23−27)
Andrey Pertsev on what kind of resources can help Vladimir Putin’s successors to come to power in Russia
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (October 16−20)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (October 9 -13)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (October 2−6)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (September 25−29)
Andrey Pertsev on what the choice of chairpersons for the «parliaments» on the annexed territories says about Kremlin’s plans for these territories
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (September 18−22)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (September 11−15)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (September 4−8)
Andrey Pertsev on how September’s elections mark a turning back of the clock in Russia’s regional power vertical that comes with major governance risks
Andrei Pertsev shows why Viktor Zolotov has not become Russia’s most influential law enforcer despite his growing influence
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (August 28 — September 1)
Andrei Pertsev sums of this week (August 21−25)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (August 14−18)
Andrei Pertsev sums up the week (August 7−11)
Andrei Pertsev shows how the Kremlin provokes a split in Russian society by singling out war veterans as a privileged group
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 31- August 4)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 24−28)
Andrei Pertsev on how and why the main instrument of Russian propaganda is struggling
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 17−21)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (July 10−14)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the week (June 19−25)
Andrey Pertsev on how and why the Kremlin weakens the Moscow mayor before the elections
Andrey Pertsev reflects on why Russian radical nationalists will not be able to unify a «club of angry patriots»
Andrey Pertsev on how Marat Khusnullin has leveraged the war in Ukraine to became one of Putin's favorite bureaucrats
Andrey Pertsev on how the Russian state destroyed one of their most successful projects in one day
Andrei Pertsev shows how the news spread by the Russian authorities became frightening and disturbing to society
Andrey Pertsev discusses how the war has transformed Patriarch Kirill and his entourage into propaganda workers
Andrey Pertsev casts light on why and how the Kremlin is fighting artists who do not support the war
Andrey Pertsev on how Sergei Kiriyenko and his subordinates have adapted their work at the presidential administration to the war in Ukraine
Andrey Pertsev on why Russian party politics showed signs of a revival at the end of 2022. Should this be taken seriously in 2023?
Andrey Pertsev on why Vladimir Putin made Alexei Kudrin the head of Yandex
Andrey Pertsev on how Telegram became the main information platform for Russia’s hawks and their alternate reality
Andrey Pertsev on the five myths painstakingly created by the Putin regime and exposed by the war
Andrey Pertsev analyses Russian authorities' attempts to invent a military pop aesthetic
Andrey Pertsev discusses how the Kremlin's political bloc is creating a new class of propagandists
Andrey Pertsev on why the Kremlin is unwilling and unable to come up with an ideology for plebiscites in Ukrainian lands
Andrey Pertsev on why Kremlin is forming a modern version of service-class people in Donbas
Andrey Pertsev on how Russia’s siloviki and civilian elites have begun to change Russia’s system of power
Andrey Pertsev looks at how Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has been trying to win Putin’s favours back
Andrey Pertsev on how and why the Russian elite is restoring a Soviet-like state
Andrey Pertsev looks into how the head of the Kremlin's domestic political bloc profited from Russia’s Ukraine invasion
Andrey Pertsev on the key characteristics and goals of Russian public policy hawks
Andrey Pertsev looks at how Russia’s ruling elite are under pressure to show loyalty to their boss through regular outbursts of propaganda
Andrey Pertsev on how the «Z-campaign» in Russia testifies to the ideological emptiness of the Ukraine invasion