The invisible battle for Russia’s future
There are homegrown democrats in Russia who do not automatically sympathise with the West. They could lead the country to change from the top
Kadri Liik
The Putin paradox: Five things Navalny’s arrest says about Russia
The events Navalny set in motion both indicate the urgent need for change and make such change less likely to happen
The geopolitics of covid vaccines in Europe’s eastern neighbourhood
Many of the EU’s neighbours are hoping it will help them secure vaccines – leaving offers from China and Russia to flood in
Russia policy after the US election
Regardless of the election result, Moscow will continue to see US policies as provisional – as a part of a temporary phase that one needs to wait out, to see what follows
How Russia is winning at its own game
War and revolution are not inimical to Moscow if they follow paths Russian policymakers understand and even support
Why analysts in Moscow dismiss the UK Parliament’s Russia report
The July 2020 report by the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee is part of a wider and somewhat depressing phenomenon: Western countries’ analyses of what Russia is doing are often mediocre in the eyes of those in Moscow
Coronavirus: Not Putin’s kind of crisis
With no heroes to laud or foes to lambast, Putin is not having a good crisis. But don’t write him off just yet
Will he stay or will he go? Putin’s role will change
A political transition has started in Russia. While preserving a powerful role for Vladimir Putin, 2024 might nonetheless bring about real-enough change.
Emmanuel Macron’s very big idea on Russia
Negotiations with Russia over a new European security order would have huge – to many, alarming – implications for Ukraine, the EU, and the NATO alliance
Two decades of Putin
Two decades on from his ascent to power, Putin cuts a lonely figure in a political desert