The future of anti-Kremlin sanctions
Vladislav Inozemtsev on why sanctions against Moscow have not yet brought the desired results
Foreign policy
Is there a peace plan for Karabakh?
Ivan Preobrazhensky looks at how the international community will have a tough time thrashing out a lasting peace settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Sanctions à la Biden
Maximillian Hess looks into what “team Biden” thinks about Russia sanctions policy
Navalny poisoning sanctions: the fate of the six
Sergei Glandin wonders why “Navalny’s list” is so short and whether the defendants will be able to lift these sanctions in the EU Court of Justice
Uncomfortable Conversations: Moscow and the Rival Legal Claims over Nagorno-Karabakh
Paul Fisher, prompted by the latest bout of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh, takes another look at Moscow’s difficult relationship with de facto states
Nagorno-Karabakh: What to Expect from Russia?
Ivan Preobrazhensky investigates whether Russia has real obligations to provide assistance to Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia
How China Helped Russia Weather COVID and Why It’s Not Necessarily Good News
Nicholas Trickett on how COVID-19 has been rewriting economic orthodoxy across the globe, but Russia’s Austrian School economists have yet to get the memo
Nord Stream 2 and more sanctions: the endgame begins
Ivan Tkachev looks at whether sanctions could bring the Nord Stream-2 story to an end
Russia’s response to Belarus crisis: possible lessons from Abkhazia
Neil Hauer finds Russia’s reactions to popular uprisings in Abkhazia a compelling historical indicator of how Russia might react to the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus
Russian operation goes ‘offshore’ in Syria
Anton Mardasov and Kirill Semenov describe how Moscow is trying to support the armed opposition without weakening al-Assad
When Russia abandons its bases
Why has Moscow given up on its radar station in Kazakhstan, and what is the fate of the sites in Belarus, asks Pavel Luzin?
So different, but in some ways so similar
Kirill Shamiev on civil-military relations in the USA and Russia