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From BOFIT today (translated by Google): GROWTH IN TOTAL PRODUCTION HAS DECLINED IN RECENT MONTHS According to the monthly estimate published by the Russian Ministry of Economy, the annual growth of Russia's GDP has clearly slowed down in recent months. The indicator describing the development of the five main production sectors of the statistics agency […]

If the Russian reservist mobilization fails to stop Ukrainian counter-offensives, then Putin might consider nuclear escalation. This is a re-post of an op-ed I wrote for Channel News Asia on possible Russian nuclear use scenarios in the Ukraine war. I … Continue reading →

There is no doubt across the world, even in Russia, that Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the murder on Friday of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. Just as there is now little doubt that Russia directly interfered in the UK's democratic processes – the Scottish referendum in 2014, the EU referendum in 2016, and […]
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There is no doubt across the world, even in Russia, that Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the murder on Friday of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. Just as there is now little doubt that Russia directly interfered in the UK's democratic processes – the Scottish referendum in 2014, the EU referendum in 2016, and the general election in 2019.
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As the world was distracted by an episode of Russian drama complete with the betrayal of a once-loyal servant, armed mutiny and panic at the court of a tsar, Ukraine was being shelled. On the ...

This week, we're looking at how Russian leaders talk about sovereignty. In particular, how do their ideas about sovereignty help them rationalise war in Ukraine?

In just 15 months of fighting in Ukraine, three times more Russian soldiers have died than Soviet troops did over 10 years in Afghanistan.

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Drawing on new data, Lin Zhang, Zhe Cao, Gunnar Sivertsen, and Dmitry Kochetkov explore how the conflict in Ukraine has changed Russian science and how international sanctions have played a minor role compared to domestic politics in isolating Russian scientists. Does geopolitics influence science? Following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, many international scientific agreements … Continued

By now, we've heard a lot about how state-owned Russian television is distorting the truth about the war in Ukraine. But Russian TV doesn't just reach Russian viewers. Some Ukrainians can receive its analog television signals.

To understand how this propaganda influences Ukrainians, we turned to New York University political scientist Arturas Rozenas, to talk about his 2017 paper, "Electoral Effects of Biased Media: Russian Television in Ukraine".

This week we ask: Should Russian assets abroad be seized to support Ukraine?

Russia's failure to become a democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union is not an inevitable product of its history. On the contrary, it has been shaped by the adoption of a constitutional system of centralised power in the office of the president. Long term democratic reform will require more than just Putin leaving the office of the presidency. Avoiding a system of 'Putinism without Putin' will also require a new Russian constitutional foundation that breaks with centralisation and reshapes the later structural chapters of the constitution to balance power between institutions.

The growing mistrust towards the West in Russia since the early 2000s, as well as general disillusionment with the results of political transition and economic reforms, along with the aggressive anti-human rights propaganda of the Russian regime for a long time, has led to a perception of human rights as a "Western theory" that does not fit the Russian people. This context made it easy in the 2010s to weaponize human rights in the Kremlin's foreign policy rhetoric and subsequent direct aggression; the rhetoric of "protecting human rights" became the justification for both the annexation of Crimea and the initiation of full-scale aggression against Ukraine.

The conversations happening on these Telegram channels do not have to do with Russian politics - but with Argentina's

Australian intelligence's foremost challenge is to further evolve from being a 'national intelligence community' to generating 'national intelligence power'. It will do that by more effectively integrating intelligence into the government's broad policymaking, strategising and ...