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Setting the election stage
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 15 Nov 2017

A surprise candidate entering the presidential race, national popular entertainer and journalist Ksenia Sobchak has significantly undermined Alexei Navalny’s chances to be allowed to run. Although an active opposition member in the past, Sobchak hardly constitutes a threat to the incumbent, yet s...

Localizing elections
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 16 Oct 2017

The United Russia party won Moscow’s municipal elections with 67% of the seats in all the assemblies. However, in several small assemblies, opposition candidates also won some seats and even won majorities. All interim governors appointed by the Kremlin throughout 2016-2017 won their regional...

Control issues
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 08 Sep 2017

Russia’s leadership had not really expected that a long-delayed response to expulsion of Russian diplomats from the US and Congressional anti-Russian sanctions would be met with yet another move from the US. After Russian diplomatic properties in the US were closed by a US decision, the Kremlin u...

No miracles
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 11 Aug 2017

The Russian leadership was extremely disappointed with the recent turn of the US–Russia relations. Despite a productive presidential meeting, the congressional decision to increase sanctions was clear evidence of no positive change to be expected any time soon. That came as a shock and insult to ...

Government Control
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 15 Jul 2017

Russia’s government control over the Internet is constantly increasing as the authorities try to prevent opposition and foreign actors from using it for the purpose of changing the regime. Due to constant increase of control and government Internet blocking, circumvention tools are also becoming ...

Online Politics
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 15 Jun 2017

The Moscow Mayor’s Office launched a large-scale city renovation plan that means tearing down thousands of apartment buildings and offering home owners new ones. City-wide discussions resulted in tens of thousands of people protesting, and the city leadership’s goal at this stage is to prevent op...

Policy maker appointment to Presidential Administration highlights new media priority ahead of election
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 02 Jun 2017

Maksut Shadaev, a Moscow minister for IT and social media, is joining the senior ranks of the Presidential Administration – a move that underscores the government’s increased attention to new media policy.

Sistema prepares to contest Rosneft in landmark court case
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 02 Jun 2017

The president of London-listed AFK Sistema, Mikhail Shamolin, has said the holding’s legal position is unshakeable and that it will fight head-on claims by Russian state oil major Rosneft for USD 3bn, as part of a suit filed in a Bashkir court in mid-May.

Early Spring Galvanization
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 15 May 2017

As opposition street protests continue in Russia, although on a smaller scale than last month, the ruling elite started undertaking retaliatory measures to prevent the protests from continuing. Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s main organization, Open Russia Foundation, was declared undesirable, making its ...

Early Spring Galvanization
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 18 Apr 2017

The largest street protests in five years took place in Moscow and almost one hundred other locations following Alexei Navalny’s Anticorruption Foundation’s publishing a report accusing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of corruption. Although the protests were curbed by the police, they played into...

After Tatfondbank: latest Russian Central Bank licensing moves show tightening, even for state banks
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 23 Mar 2017

Following Tatfondbank’s license revocation in early March, the Central Bank of Russia has shown not only its appetite for closing private pocket banks, but also its readiness to tackle criminal mismanagement of assets in larger state-owned institutions.

Rapid changes at Rosneft altering Russia’s O&G sector
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 23 Mar 2017

Since the start of 2017 Rosneft has announced news on foreign projects almost on a weekly basis: March 21 the company agreed with Egypt on delivery of 10 tankers of LNG for the year, following plans to exploit the Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean alongside Eni and BP. In February, it settled o...

One Year Before the Election
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 14 Mar 2017

The new deputy head of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Kirienko, launched his first large-scale initiative to improve regional governance ahead of the 2018 presidential election. Several regional governors having issues with local elites or regional economic development were replaced with...

Starting a New Cycle
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 14 Feb 2017

The Russian leadership is cautiously optimistic about future relations with the United States now that Donald Trump has taken office. Although their interactions have been very limited, Moscow thinks that having a favorable bargaining position in the Middle East may result in persuading the US to...

Dealing with Uncertainty
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 06 Jan 2017

Russia’s most popular opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential election. Although it will be a while before the formal candidate registration procedure starts, this move can win some public support for Navalny and create a supportive context for the...

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