Russia in Venezuela: Geopolitical Boon or Economic Misadventure?
In December 2018, the Russian Federation sent two Tupolov-160 supersonic bombers around the world to the Bolivarian Republic of...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Russia in Venezuela: Geopolitical Boon or Economic Misadventure?
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Russia Political Economy Project
The Sources of Post-Soviet Conduct
The Russian Federation’s recently provocative foreign policy results in part from structural weakness in the Russian domestic regime, a...
Debt and Discontent: The Collapse of the Putin Consensus?
For the vast majority of Russians, the vlast’—regime—they encounter is neither the Kremlin nor the Duma. It is considerably...
Reining In the Runet: The Kremlin’s Struggle to Control Cyberspace
Since 2011–2012, when the combination of the Arab Spring and anti-government demonstrations in the Russian Federation left the country’s...
Russia-Saudi Arabia Oil Cooperation: The Rise of OPEC+?
The Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil exporters, were rocked by the collapse...
More Politics than Substance: Three Years of Russian and Chinese Economic Cooperation in Central Asia
Over three years ago, in May 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that they...
The Eurasian Economic Union: Putin’s Geopolitical Project
The Eurasian Economic Union has styled itself as a desired and dynamic partner operating in the international arena in...
Bond of War: Russian Geo-Economics in Ukraine’s Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Russia and Ukraine have spent the last four years locked in a conflict with many fronts, from the battlefields...
Corruption and Power in Russia
Corruption has been a constant factor in Russia’s political economy. From one era to another, the multifarious forms of...
Running In Place: The Latest Round of Russian Economic Modernization
“There’s no money, but hang in there!” — Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev’s now infamous exhortation to a group of...