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De oorlogseconomie van Rusland herbergt talrijke raadsels. De cijfers over de toestand van de volkshuishouding zijn zo tegenstrijdig

The formation in Russia of a new concept of 'fairness' is testament to how long the war in Ukraine is expected to continue. The

In the beginning of the war the economic sanctions against Russia didn't have the huge impact, that was foreseen in the West. But

On October 19, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a ...

In his address to the nation on Wednesday Putin announced ‘partial mobilization’ for the war in Ukraine. He also supported the

On 24 February, also in Russia everything changed. Putin’s war in Ukraine imposes an agenda on Russia that is deeply archaic. His

Chief of Russia's Security Council Nikolay Patrushev is the person closest to Putin, and the most sinister figure in Russia's

The French president Macron refused to define Russian aggression in Ukraine as genocide. How then can we define the Russian

International scolars on gepopolitics like the American professor John Mearsheimer don't seem to understand that their

Soon after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine started, university teachers all over Russia were ordered to teach their

How did this war with Ukraine even become a possibility? Maxim Trudolyubov, editor of the Riga-based Russian

The Kremlin is fighting two wars at once: a major war against Ukraine and continued a war against Russia. In this wars,

By invading Ukraine Putin has shown that he has put his obsession with this neighbour above the national interest of Putin. As

The Kremlin doesn’t understand the quintessence of Ukraine. Therefore Putin’s interventions since Euromaidan backfired:

In een artikel ter herdenking van de aanval van nazi-Duitsland op de Sovjet-Unie, op 22 juni precies tachtig jaar geleden, heeft

Trump bracht zo'n ontwrichting teweeg in het westers bondgenootschap, dat het Moskou kansen gaf 'de vijand stuk voor stuk te

The political commissar in the Russian armed forces seems back. In September, President Putin signed a decree to introduce

In his address to the nation on April 2 Putin extended the economic lockdown with three more weeks and promised salary compensation

Russia's ruling party United Russia has lost most of its credibility by now, after the highly impopular pension reform and the

We can keep laughing at the Russian military intelligence service, says our columnist Mark Galeotti, but we should

Public discontent over a plan to raise Russia’s pension age showed the weakness of Putin's rule. The governing elite is paralized

Opinion polls and focus groups show that, despite intense anti-American feelings in Russia, Russians do pin hopes on the Putin-Trump

With roughly 21 percent ethnic Russians, Kazakhstan inhabits the largest Russian minority of the five Central Asian republics. But

In a

Will the World Cup see Putin in the net?

Do we witness a ‘reset’ in German-Russian relations? On Iran and Nord Stream 2 a rapprochement between Putin and Merkel is possible, writes

On May 18 Dmitri Trenin, director of think tank Carnegie Moscow, presented his views on the tensions between Russia

The survival of the Assad regime lies entirely in the hands of its two main supporters: Russia and Iran. Therefore Netanyahu was in

President Vladimir Putin’s recent address to the Federal Assembly about boosting Russia’s defense capabilities made quite a

(English translation of Kessler's start of the debate)

For more than a quarter of a century Joseph Stalin ruled over Soviet

The incoherence in US-Russian relations has many causes, from mutual misunderstanding to Trump’s own spur-of-the-moment style. But a

Russia’s survival logic is based on duality: being both with the West and against it. Western misperceptions of this duality

With an exposé on Putin's corruption Alexei Navalny targets the Man at the Top directly. Navalny is not in jail and Putin is

With one of Putin’s closest henchmen as commander and 400,000 armed men on its payroll, the National Guard, created in 2016, is a

Не так давно Левада-центр опубликовал ответы россиян на просьбу назвать, кого они считают «наиболее выдающимся деятелем всех времен

As Trump and Putin met for the first time during the G20, they apparently didn't speak about a very sensitive issue: the economic

This year’s tv call-in show with Vladimir Putin revealed that politics has been entirely removed from the public sphere in Russia.

Putin’s administration, in its quest for historical legitimacy, seeks to synthesize disparate elements of Russia’s different ‘pasts’

The allegations against Russia interfering in the American elections are still murky. After the elections contacts between Russian

Is Russia a superpower or a house of cards? This was the subject of a debate organised by RaamopRusland in De Balie in Amsterdam.

Late Putinism is not working with a long-sighted grand design, as people who believe the Trump-dossier seem to think. Relentless hollowing out of

The persecution of gay people in Chechnya may point to a profound weakness in the Kremlin’s power in the republic. President Putin apparently has

After Donald Trump took power a ‘reset’ of U.S.-Russian relations wasn’t even attempted. Why was a ‘grand bargain’, being so far

A mere two and a half months after his inauguration Donald Trump acknowledged that ‘we’re not getting along with Russia at all, we

De relatie Moskou-Washington kan alle kanten op gaan. Escalatie is denkbaar of verder overleg. Maar een doorbraak zit er niet in.

Last Monday, April 3, Lukashenko and Putin met in Saint Petersburg to overcome their controversies. After the meeting they announced

Corruption is one of Russia's biggest problems. But it is not the street-level bribe, but institutionalised nepotism, that

De Russische revolutie van 1917 was een keerpunt: voor Rusland zelf, en voor de rest van de wereld. Al honderd jaar zijn oorzaken en

The belief that it was the Kremlin’s dream to see Trump in the White House is an exaggeration. The Trump/Bannon/Leninist urge to destroy the

'Такое впечатление, что Трамп руководит Россией. Почему все здесь о нем пишут?' — задает вопрос в русском сегменте фейсбука человек,

Populists use macho talk to show their disrespect to the elites and their closeness to the lower strata. Putin and Trump, though very different

In december Dmitri Trenin, director of Carnegie Moscow Center, published the book 'Should we fear Russia?' He warns the West

Можно гадать, означает ли последнее послание президента Путина Федеральному Собранию примирение с Западом, а вернее с Америкой,

The West is inclined to interpret and explain national politics by referring to Russia or Putin. However, the recent electoral

Владимир Путин требует для России положения сверхдержавы, и избрание Трампа может сыграть ему на руку. Но на чем основаны

The message that Donald Trump’s sudden triumph sends is very clear: the U.S. political system has failed at its core. The bulwark of liberal

After the NATO summit in Warsaw, West and East should stop blaming each other and immediately start negotiations to eliminate the