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How much does a Russian distillery really cost?
In Kirov, an incautious remark by Aleksei Navalny, might result in five people going to prison for 10 years. On 2 July 2012, the hacker 'Hell' (probably a 40-year old Russian called Sergei Maximov),...
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Post-election, Ukrainians and Russians face an uncertain future
Ukraine’s snap parliamentary elections have once again proved that the mainstream of society rejects the far right – not that the Russian government or media will care. Since the very beginning of the...
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What is really going on with Russia's new internet laws
On paper, Russia’s new laws on data storage seem to make business impossible for big internet companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a wider range of online businesses. Following their summer...
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What does Russia really want with Abkhazia?
Will the new treaty being discussed between Abkhazia and Russia provide a blueprint for cooperation or something more like annexation? Talks about a new treaty between Russia and Abkhazia have been...
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Putin's new foreign policy rulebook
Putin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules. As the Ukraine crisis drags on and as the transformative effects of Crimea's annexation...
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Review: Peter Pomerantsev, ‘Nothing is true and everything is possible’
Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible presents a Russia with no rules and no certainty in tomorrow, a place where you must live in the moment, because the moment is all you...
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What are Russians celebrating when they celebrate National Unity Day?
Russians celebrate National Unity Day on 4 November, but the name masks Russian anxieties about disunity and disintegration. On 4 November, Russia celebrated National Unity Day, as it has every year...
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Welcome to the not-so-new world order
The latest IMF report has confirmed what some have long argued – ‘rising powers’ like Russia and China are changing the world, but not in the way you might think. When the International Monetary Fund...
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Voting in the Donetsk People’s Republic
Is there really anything Kyiv can do to respond to the recent elections in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic? In Kyiv, the emergency meeting of the Security Council took place...
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'I took no prisoners'
In his own words, a Russian volunteer who signed up to fight in the Novorossiya militia in Eastern Ukraine. на русском языке There are believed to be several thousand Russian volunteers currently...
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Poroshenko's choices
In theory, with a new parliamentary coalition, Poroshenko can now address Ukraine’s two most pressing problems — Donbas and the economy. But his position is weaker than it appears.After almost six...
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ISIS: a shared headache for Central Asia and the West?
In any international discussion about the threat posed by ISIS Central Asian states have their role to play. At a time when the international community is discussing the threat posed by ISIS (also...
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In Belarus, women need not apply
There are 181 occupations from which women in Belarus are banned. The Lukashenka government says this is progress. на русском языке In June 2014, the Belarusian Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare...
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Where now for Armenia’s opposition?
Public protests are mounting in Armenia over economic and political issues. But where is the Armenian opposition in all this?Yerevan's Freedom Square filled with protests and marches twice last month....
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Review: Andrew Wilson ‘Ukraine Crisis'
For Wilson, two men – Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yanukovych – bear the main brunt of responsibility for Ukraine’s crisis. As Leo Tolstoy famously quipped, had Napoleon’s cold on the day of the battle of...
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Kremlinphobia, russophobia and other states of paranoia
The Russian government likes to regularly accuse the West of being ‘russophobic.’ They’re right, but not for the reasons they think. ‘Russophobia’ has become a charge as common as fascism in the...
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Germany and the disinformation politics of the Ukraine crisis
Looking at both the historical and current pro-Putin segment of German public discussion, one can identify the target groups and methods of Russian disinformation politics In early March, in central...
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The split widens in the ruling family of Uzbekistan
Having been accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars, Gulnara Karimova is now under house arrest in Tashkent; one more indication of the schism that is splitting the ruling...
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The battle for the Siberian harvest
President Putin’s special envoy to the Urals, recently praised the region’s farmers for their heroic efforts to save the harvest. But it won’t save them. President Putin’s special envoy to the Urals,...
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The ‘return’ of nuclear weapons
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus. The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp...
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