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October Report: Russia’s Tech, Investment and Start-up Deals

Internet isolation, foreign ownership restrictions and joint venture proliferation at Mail.Ru and Yandex dominated October.
Watching you

Russia Is Building One of the World’s Largest Facial Recognition Networks

According to some projections, it may even be bigger than China’s 200 million camera system.
opinion
Tatyana Stanovaya

Post-Putin Uncertainty Means a Jittery Russian Elite and Brittle Regime

Amid the uncertainty over what will happen when Putin steps down in 2024, everyone is striving to claim a spot in the sun.
PHONE DIPLOMACY

What If Trump Calls Putin? Balts and Poles Worry After Syria

Trump's willingness for Russia to return to the G7 and his actions in Syria are raising alarm bells in eastern European countries.
CALVEY CASE

Russian Baring Vostok Executives Could Face Years in Detention

Ivan Zyuzin, Vagan Abgaryan and Maxim Vladimirov face a full year in jail before the case even has a chance of going to trial.
Analysis

Russia and China Take Military Partnership to New Level

For a long time, both countries rejected the very idea of alliances as only increasing tensions in various parts of the world.
opinion
Andrei Kortunov

Is Putin Over His Resentment?

Is it a good thing that Russia appears to no longer harbor resentment towards to West? The answer is not so clear.
TECH OVERVIEW

September Report: Russia’s Tech, Investment and Start-up Deals

BlaBlaCar on the move, Calvey’s detention extended, and a new report on Russian venture capital.
Way Forward

Russia Facing Europe: A Provisional Road Map

Russia would do well to review its recent practical steps with a view to refocusing and energizing its policies toward the European Union. 
RE-EDUCATION CAMPS

‘If They Send Us Back to China We Will Die’: Uighur Brothers Fight Deportation From Russia

Twins seeking refugee status are desperate to avoid the fate of a friend, who tells of his time in a re-education camp in China for the first time.
opinion
Mark Galeotti

Is This Russia's Next Leader?

For the first time in his seven years as Defense Minister, Shoigu gave a lengthy interview to a mainstream Russian newspaper. We should pay attention.
Power Games

Guns, Butter, and Russia’s Enduring Military Power

Russian military analyst Michael Kofman and political scientist Maxim Trudolyubov discuss the state of the country's military.
Letter From Udmurtia

A Russian Ethnic Group Leader Set Himself on Fire. But Will It Make a Difference?

For most of his adult life, Albert Razin had been concerned about Udmurt culture vanishing.
Way Out

Why a Group of Siberians Is Asking Canada for ‘Ecological Asylum’

Locals in a Russian coal town say they are desperate to get out.
tinker tailor soldier spy

What Did a Russian CIA Agent Achieve in the Kremlin?

The Smolenkov affair reignites talks of “Russian intervention.”
fast growth

Ozon Battling It Out for E-Commerce Supremacy in Russia

The race is on to capture as many loyal customers as possible.
opinion
Dmitry Trenin

20 Years of Vladimir Putin: How Russian Foreign Policy Has Changed

Dmitry Trenin on Russia's successes abroad and why resisting NATO expansion to the east was a fundamental mistake.
Long Read

Long Read: 20 Years of Russia's Economy Under Putin, in Numbers

Ben Aris and Ivan Tkachev explore how Russia has been transformed under Putin's leadership by going through the numbers.
The Bell

The Rise and Fall of an FSB-Run Money Laundering Empire

The Bell and investigative website The Project looked into an FSB backed financial empire, and why it all fell apart.
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