Tatyana Stanovaya considers the significance and consequences of the FSB’s growing internal conflicts
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Areg Galstyan on Putin’s and Trump’s foreign policy views and prospects for Russian-American relations
Yampolskaya’s appointment is a cosmetic rearrangement of officials to stir fresh intrigue
But why has it not happened already?
Vladimir Putin has broken his promise not to raise Russia’s retirement age. His spokesman is now eager to point out that it was a promise from long ago and times have changed.
A new generation of government officials is gradually emerging, but old hands in Russia’s institutions have been unwilling to make space for fresh faces.
By promoting a culture of constant and automatic finger pointing, Russia’s president is stifling and distorting public discourse. Stories that claim others are always to blame may be gratifying, but they are also willful delusions.
By approving of Ivan Ilyin’s philosophy, the Russian state is effectively sugar coating a holder of bitterly fascist views
The Putin regime will collapse when the political demand for change from both society and the elites outweighs the system’s inclination for self-preservation
Why Ivan Ilyin is not Putin’s Ideological Guru
The Kremlin’s foreign policy is becoming increasingly dependent on Chechnya’s brutal dictator
An analysis of Putin’s publicly stated promises shows how rarely the Russian leader gets pinned down to pledging anything large-scale, concrete and specific. And when that does happen, it is anyone’s guess whether those promises will be fulfilled.