Sanctions

What's behind Russia's booming film industry

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many actors and filmmakers have left Russia. Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime...

Hoe een Nederlandse supermarktketen Russisch werd

Op papier is X5 Retail Group Nederlands. Nog wel, want speciaal voor de supermarkt- en drogisterijketen is in Rusland een 'hervestigingsprocedure'...

Don't underestimate Russia's resilience

Russia has many difficulties due to the war, sanctions and international isolation. But there are important factors that could help president...

Partial success: Russia’s oil sector adapts to sanctions

After sixteen months of Western sanctions against Russia the picture of their efficiency remains ambivalent. The sanctions on oil exports have...

China can learn from Russia how to survive under sanctions

Last week China’s leader Xi Jinping visited Moscow. Beijing’s agenda was twofold: to study Russia’s unique experience of surviving under tough...

Sanctions drove oligarkhs home to embrace Putin

Ownership of property has brought serfdom rather than freedom to the super-rich Russians: they thought they were part of the global jet...

The alliance between Russia and Iran is deepening

Moscow and Tehran reached an agreement to start manufacturing hundreds of weaponized drones on Russian soil, according to U.S. and other Western...

Europe finds its unity in crisis

As victory on the battlefield may be far away, Vladimir Putin stakes his hopes on the weak-willed Europeans who cannot take the hardships of high...

Coping with sanctions: import substitution or going parallel?

According to President Putin, Russia is able to cope with the economic sanctions imposed by the West. Vladislav Inozemtsev outlines how the Russian...

Europe’s Gamble and the End of Russia’s Oil Power

Due to its own lack of reforms and decisiveness, Russia played second fiddle as a prime mover on oil markets for seventy years. The...

Why Russia's elite went to war

The oligarchs who emerged under Yeltsin's rule gave up their involvement in Russia's domestic politics. They earned their money in Russia, but used...

Sanctions on Russia are strong but not 'nuclear'

Every day the war lasts we see new sanctions on Russia imposed by the West. How effective are they? Read the personal blog and newsletter of the...

Lukashenko in survival mode: an international problem

After de meeting of the presidents Putin and Lukashenko, the 28th of May in Sochi, it remains crystal clear: Russia is the only country that can...

Germany unlikely to join American pushback strategy towards Russia

Joe Biden  asserted that ‘the days of the United States rolling over in the face of Russia’s aggressive actions are over’. The first months of...

Hacking controversy highlights Kremlin’s self-destructive approach

As the spat on Russia's hacking of the US information technology firm SolarWinds shows, Russia again damaged its own interests. It was classical...

Sticks and carrots in Biden’s Russia strategy

So far it is two cheers for Biden's approach to Russia, argues Matthew Sussex for the Interpreter. Some of the sanctions will be more effective than...

Germany at the crossroads in its relations with Russia

The image of Putin’s Russia in Germany has suffered tremendously in the past few weeks. In the wake of a series of ever more implausible denials,...

Russia facing Europe: a roadmap for improvement

In the relationship between Russia and Europe illusions about rapprochement are gone. However, the relation is not confrontational either....

U.S. attempts to block Russian gas pipe to Europe likely to fail

The United States is about to introduce sanctions against companies involved in building the gas pipeline Nord Stream 2. The Trump administration...

Putin replies to angry voters

Russians watch Putin's annual call-in show for clues about what the future will bring, but the president took them back to the past. Facing...

The Twilight of Putin’s Political Monopoly?

Political fragmentation, fights between the elites and a total absence of a positive domestic agenda. Political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya signals...

So who 'won' 2018?

In their own ways both Russia and the West consider themselves at war with each other. A political war, one fought by diplomacy and destabilisation,...

How Western Sanctions Will Alter Ties Between Russian Big Business and the Kremlin

The United States’ latest round of sanctions has hit Russia hard. In the future, the Russian state will have to share the emerging risks and...

Winners and losers in sanction war

Many more Russian oligarchs, bureaucrats, companies, and businesses can expect to appear on future U.S. sanctions lists. Russia, not seeing an...

Black Monday Blues in Moscow

Column      Dutch businessman Jeroen Ketting has been working in Moscow for 25 years. The sanctions of 2014 hit him hard....

Gas and oil interests split Europe and US in sanction policy

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

U.S-Russian Relations: Back to Square One - Part II

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

Punish the criminal, not the instrument

On December 29 president Obama kicked out 35 Russian diplomats in response to Russian interference with the American elections. Putin waits to see...

Will Trump Become the Kremlin’s Icebreaker?

Before the elections the Russian leadership was praising Donald Trump. After his victory the Kremlin should worry about mercurial personality of the...
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