Russia 2024 and Beyond
Can Putin Retain Control?

Whatever the result of the constitutional referendum underway in Russia, Putin is increasingly a leader who has nowhere to lead.

Constitutional Corruption
The Kremlin’s Crumbling Walls

If Putin remains in control through 2030, the problem will still be: after Putin, what?

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Brexit and British Politics
A Guide for the Perplexed

A former British diplomat guides us through the current crisis—and why the issues go well beyond Brexit.

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Getting Russia Right
Putinist Rule Minus Putin?

Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012 blighted Russia’s chances of peaceable evolution. That will stay so while he and his inner circle hang on to power, perhaps beyond 2024. Russia and the rest of us will suffer in consequence.

Dilemmas Old and New
Change in Post-Putin Russia?

Putinist authoritarian rule has returned Russia to the dilemma confronting the Soviet Union at the end of the Brezhnev era: whether it can rethink or reformulate its fundamental purposes without un-leashing forces that its rulers cannot control.

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Russia and the Outside World
Cold War II?

Buying in to the myth of Russia’s humiliation at the hands of the West does nothing to improve relations in the long term. It could do a great deal of harm to Russia as well.

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Russia 2018-2024
Society and Rulers

A pall of uncertainty has descended on Russia in the run-up to the next presidential elections and beyond.

Russia 2018-2024
The Framework of the Power Structures

Does Putin have anything to offer Russia in 2018 other than further concentrating power in his own hands?

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After Putin
The Mirror of Justice in Russia

Russia’s judicial system is designed to sustain the primacy of the state over its citizens, but there is a cost to using such a tool—and that cost is rising.

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Russia and the West
Fake Words

How familiar-sounding words and outmoded habits of mind mislead Russian-Western relations.

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