Over the past few years, a new global configuration of three powers has emerged in world politics, which can be characterized as the “Bermuda Triangle”. This term was suggested by a political scientist and senior researcher at University College London, Vladimir Pastukhov. …

In Russia, only those who make negative predictions are never wrong, this truth has long been well known. However, even the Russian reality periodically brings surprises. In our era of global uncertainty, political turbulence and military conflicts, having knowledge of the future becomes truly invaluable. What is really needed is…

I spent three weeks “on the other side of the front”. Here’s what I saw — My last trip to Moscow in June revealed an important but quite obvious fact: things were better before the war. This applies not only to the pain of civilian casualties and the shattered lives of millions of people, but also to quite prosaic things that, under normal circumstances, we take…

After my last article, Stalinization as a New Russian Reality, when I was (un)expectedly attacked by furious conspiracy thinkers (they still claim NATO provoked Putin’s invasion of Ukraine), I realized how important it is to continue the discussion with the “other side” including speaking about “good and bad Russians”. In…

This time he was nominated by the military “heroes” — Vladimir Putin announced his decision to run for president in 2024. This important announcement was made in the Kremlin’s St. George Hall, where Putin was presenting awards to participants of the “special military operation” in Ukraine. After the ceremony of awarding Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia, one of…

The Russian labor market is “overheated”, most economists are convinced, and the level of employment is breaking historical records. This may become almost the main constraint to Russia’s accelerated economic growth in the foreseeable future. …

Yesterday, anticipating the weekend, I decided to open the major American and British newspapers. It's a little tradition of mine that I do every Saturday. It allows me to look deeper into the world's agenda and see what important things happened during the week. And this time, as usual, I…

One of the least studied aspects of any war is the humanitarian dimension of military conflict. In addition to its obvious military, political and socio-economic consequences, conflict has a key implication: it invades people’s lives in a straightforward and devastating way. In the case of the current war in Ukraine…

World War I is often referred to as “the war to end all wars.” It was the first global conflict in history, involving 38 nations or 70 percent of the world’s population, and lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between two groups of nations called the Allies and…