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
Armin Laschet: A Merkelian Putinversteher?
Dmitri Stratievski charts the rise of a new leader of Germany’s CDU. What will be his stance on German-Russia relations?
Navalny’s return puts the spotlight back on Russia’s security services
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
A tale of two pipelines
Maria Shagina sees echoes of 1982 in how the US is reacting to the construction of Nord Stream 2
Russia’s opaque digitalisation
Vladimir Gel’man on how digitalisation should aid public accountability mechanisms in contemporary Russia, but is currently helping to thwart it
Russia’s military in the 2020s
Pavel Luzin on the challenges the Russian defence industry will face in the 2020s
Key economic themes of 2020
Ivan Tkachev on the economy which survived 2020 better than was expected in the spring
Saying goodbye to illusions: Russia and the Middle East in 2020
Anton Mardasov on how Moscow has dispelled myths about having a strategy for the Middle East
2020 in Russia: the year when politics became a crime
Ivan Davydov on key developments in Russia in 2020
Russia and the West: mistakes of the 1990s
Sergey Radchenko on who is “to blame” for the divorce of Russia and the West