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  • Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 August 2013
    Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
  • Navalny's sentence will influence the Russian economy
    Opinion piece 19 July 2013
    Navalny's sentence will influence the Russian economy
  • The EU, Russia and China
    Review article by Charles Grant, 15 March 2013
    The EU, Russia and China
  • A bad deal for Ukraine and Yanukovich
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Financial Times, 27 April 2010

    The new Ukrainian president has got off to a bad start in foreign policy terms. Last week, Viktor Yanukovich signed a lease agreement with Moscow that will allow the Russian Black Sea Fleet to stay in Ukraine for at least another 32 years.

  • Can and should the EU and Russia reset their relationship?
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 22 February 2010

    Russia's oil-fuelled boom has ended and President Medvedev is calling for radical improvements to the economy. Some EU politicians are tempted to offer Russia a 'modernisation partnership' to re-launch the stalled EU-Russia relationship.

  • Gazprom’s uncertain outlook
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 18 December 2009

    Many people in the EU tend to see Gazprom as a mighty giant that uses energy as a political tool on behalf of the Kremlin. They say that Russia has leverage because it controls 40 per cent of the EU’s gas imports.
  • NATO, Russia and European security
    Working paper by Tomas Valasek, 06 November 2009

    Countries in Europe's east and north worry that Moscow is blundering into a confrontation with NATO. They have begun demanding that the alliance start preparing for a possible conflict. But are they right to be concerned?

  • Obama's missile defense change shows different targets
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Yale Global Online, 21 September 2009

    Washington rankled some of its European allies and delighted Moscow on September 17 when president Obama cancelled plans to build missile defense bases in the Czech Republic and Poland.
  • Warsaw warms to Moscow
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Guardian, 18 September 2009

    Tabloids make a poor guide to understanding a country's policy. While the newspaper headlines in Poland and the Czech Republic scream of the US "betraying" eastern Europe by cancelling missile defence bases there, the official reaction in Warsaw and Prague has been muted.
  • Missile strategy must not be seen as a retreat
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Financial Times, 09 September 2009

    There are mounting indications that Barack Obama will soon abandon plans to put missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. These have become one of the main bones of contention between Russia and the west.
  • Is Ukraine fit for the EU?
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2009

    The European Union just helped put together a consortium of international banks to offer Kiev up to $3.6 billion in loans to buy Russian gas.