The Anatomy of Regional Loyalty
Stanislav Shkel, Andrey Scherbak, and Tatiana Tkacheva reflect on why Russian ethnic minority regions show staunch support for an ethnic Russian president
Belgrade’s vaccine bet on China
Yulia Petrovskaya on how Russia is losing the battle to vaccinate Serbia to China
Sanctioning debt will hurt
Max Hess discards the notion that there would be scant political impact from US sanctions on Russian sovereign debt
Foolproofing Putinism
Fabian Burkhardt on why Mikhail Mishustin might be one of the most ambitious Prime Ministers in recent Russian history
Artificial intelligence in the Russian army
Pavel Luzin on the challenges and idiosyncrasies of the development of advanced military command-and-control systems in Russia
Command without Control: The Return of Price Planning
Nick Trickett warns that price controls are not the smartest way to mitigate Russia’s problems with inflation
The Physics of Sanctions
Vladislav Inozemtsev on the threat of ‘radical sanctions’ against sovereign debt for Russia
The Chemistry of Sanctions
Sergey Glandin looks at current and future sanctions in response to Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
Punishment without crime: political prisoners in Russia
Ellen Leafstedt notes how Alexei Navalny’s recent imprisonment adds to a growing list of political prisoners in Russia
Russia on the eve of a collapse in Libya
Anton Mardasov and Kirill Semyonov on urgent anti-crisis measures that Moscow should take on Libya
