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Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 February 2024

This has enabled the leadership to manage vulnerabilities ahead of a vote intended to legitimise President Vladimir Putin's continued rule. However, the authorities’ efforts to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 February 2024

The invasion of Ukraine is causing strains in Russian society to show, with opposition to another mobilisation and rising appetite for peace talks. The economy is overheating in…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 February 2017

Media outlets provided unusually detailed coverage of the story that the FSB had arrested two of its own officers and another individual. The investigation has receded into…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 April 2015

The president has launched a process at the Constitutional Commission that seeks to address one of the main conditions underpinning the Minsk 2.0 process: the decentralisation of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 June 2020

He has navigated his way through powerful anti-reform lobbies, fears that he was too naive to handle the Kremlin, and concerns about impartiality arising from a July 2019 phone…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 February 2024

Myanmar’s junta for the first time accepted the invitation to have a ‘non-political’ representative at high-level ASEAN meetings, standing since its exclusion from such events…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 September 2022

Deep rifts have dominated Slovak politics since the four-party coalition’s conception, but disagreements between Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO) and SaS…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 December 2022

There were signs of possible progress in 2021, and even some cooperation from Moscow -- REvil ransomware gang members were arrested in early 2022. However, that cooperation has…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 December 2017

The Russian government has clamped down on dissent while injecting large subsidies into Crimea since seizing the territory in 2014. The costs of this financial support have…

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