In Russia’s largest protests in years the North Caucasus mostly stayed home. Why?
Ivan U. Klyszcz discusses possible factors in the small turnout for the 23 January protests in the North Caucasus republics
Ivan U. Klyszcz discusses possible factors in the small turnout for the 23 January protests in the North Caucasus republics
Vladislav Inozemtsev on how Russian authorities are losing the battle against COVID-19
Denis Stremoukhov looks at how and why different regions in Russia try to carve out their own foreign policy dynamics
Ivan U. Klyszcz discusses the role of the secretive Sufi Batalkhadzhintsy brotherhood in Ingush politics and their persistent conflict with local authorities
Stanislav Andreychuk on how the Russian authorities will approach the various 2020 regional elections
Kirill Shamiev on how the Khabarovsk Region stood up to the ‘Far West’
Sergey Belanovsky and Anastasia Nikolskaya look into how Khabarovsk residents perceive the arrest of their governor, and examine what brings protestors onto the streets
In Russia’s Far East, a false state clashes with a doomed civil society, writes Ivan Davydov
Aleksei Sorbale on criteria for assessing the performance of Russian governors
Moscow’s inability to introduce a full quarantine reflects the depth of Russia’s deep regional inequalities, writes Anastasia Mironova
Sebastian Hoppe on why there remains much to be done to make the Russian Far East benefit from pivoting to Asia
As it becomes clear that Russia’s state bureaucracy is unprepared to deal with this crisis, the Kremlin is attempting to shift responsibility, writes Georgy Bovt