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