If we are to understand where Russia is heading, we need to ask ourselves why our past predictions about it have been proven wrong time and time again.

Coronavirus has exposed the inadequacies of Russia’s top-down system. Here are a couple of scenarios for how it will fare in the months ahead.

Russian political analysts are especially good at deception—of themselves as well as others. But why are Western experts so eager to be deceived?

The West’s new pragmatism could be a shot in the arm for Russia’s decaying system of personalized power.

The popular belief that it was the Kremlin’s dream to see Trump in the White House is, at best, an exaggeration.

Putinalia—the study of Vladimir Putin—can be exciting, and it can be useful…sometimes. But if one hopes to understand Russia, one has to look much deeper.

How Russia’s leader has played a weak hand to its fullest, and why the West always seems to be playing catch-up.

The West needs to understand that the Russian System is willing to fight for its survival, and that this fight could take many different forms.

Russia and the West offer a hybrid solution to hybrid war.

One thing is certain: Russia is feeling some pain, and the Kremlin seems to understand that the pain could be worse.