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
Dmitri Stratievski charts the rise of a new leader of Germany’s CDU. What will be his stance on German-Russia relations?
Alex Graef on Russia’s plans to leave the Treaty on Open Skies
Kirill Shamiev sees Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia — and subsequent arrest — as another reminder of why reform of Russia’s security services is long overdue
Maria Shagina sees echoes of 1982 in how the US is reacting to the construction of Nord Stream 2
Vladimir Gel’man on how digitalisation should aid public accountability mechanisms in contemporary Russia, but is currently helping to thwart it
Pavel Luzin on the challenges the Russian defence industry will face in the 2020s
Ivan Tkachev on the economy which survived 2020 better than was expected in the spring
Vladislav Inozemtsev explains why 2020 is far from over
Anton Mardasov on how Moscow has dispelled myths about having a strategy for the Middle East
Ivan Davydov on key developments in Russia in 2020
Sergey Radchenko on who is “to blame” for the divorce of Russia and the West