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