Follow the Money
(Moscow-on-Thames) Why haven’t Western companies lined up to demand that their governments repeal sanctions on Russia? After all, hadn’t they been used to making oodles of rubles? Wouldn’t they like to…
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Russian elections and Putin’s power. Will anything change? [AUDIO]
(King's College London) In advance of the upcoming Russian parliamentary elections, Dr. Samuel Greene, Director of the King's Russia Institute, questions whether they will change anything in Russia and what impact…
Greene: What matters most to Moscow is simply to ensure that whoever wins on Nov. 8 emerges as a weak figure
(Reuters) The Kremlin says it had zero involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party emails while U.S. officials say the hack originated in Russia. We may never know who is right,…
Active Measures
(Moscow-on-Thames) It’s hard to ignore Paul Krugman. Leading lights of the neo-con foreign policy establishment – people like Anders Aslund and Anne Applebaum – are doing double-takes as they find themselves re-tweeting a recent column by the…
Russia’s Trickle-Up Economy
Somebody might want to remind Anton Siluanov that Russia’s got elections coming up. United Russia – the ruling ‘party of Putin’ that isn’t allowed to use the Russian president’s name…
Agreeable Authoritarians: Personality and Politics in Contemporary Russia
(SSRN Paper) (Co-authored with Graeme Robertson) Abstract: Personality research is a growing field in political behavior, but most research to date is confined to democracies. We expand the scope to…
It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
The New York Times has gotten better, of late, at infographics. And they’ve gotten better at covering Russia, too. But somehow, their attempt today to combine the two was less…
Russian futures: horizon 2025
(EUISS Report) Predicting Russia’s future is a perilous exercise. Many, indeed perhaps most, of those who have ventured to make such predictions in the past have erred in one way or…
Road Rage Redux
In case you haven’t noticed, Russia’s long-distance truck drivers are angry. And they are, finally, in Moscow. Right now. It is poetic, I suppose, that today’s long-awaited descent of Russian truckers…
The Russian government has just asked 12 million citizens to forget about their ethnic identity
Vladimir Medinsky may be the undoing of the current Russian regime. As Minister of Culture, Medinsky is not in any formal sense a powerful person. But ever since President Vladimir…