Putin's RussiaAlexei NavalnyEU, Russia & China
  • 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
  • Ten things everyone should know about the Sino-Russian relationship
    Policy brief by Bobo Lo, 01 December 2008

    Sino-Russian ties are at an historic high. But the relationship remains ambivalent and fraught with mistrust. Moscow and Beijing have different views of the world, contrasting foreign policy approaches, and often competing priorities.

  • PCA? The EU needs a real Russia debate
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 24 November 2008

    Was the EU right to resume negotiations on a new partnership and co-operation agreement (PCA) with Russia despite Moscow not fully complying with the Georgia ceasefire plan?
  • The Russian challenge
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Yale Global Online, 03 October 2008

    The US and Europe increasingly seem at odds over an assertive Russia, flush with oil money, strong militarily and ambitious with an educated, nationalistic population. This two-part YaleGlobal series explores the implications for Europe, the US and the world.
  • How strong is Russia's economic foundation?
    Policy brief by Pekka Sutela, 01 October 2008

    Russia's economy is in deep recession. Many Russians hope that rising oil prices will quickly restore the high growth rates their country enjoyed before 2008.

  • How to handle the new Russia
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 October 2008

    The war in Georgia has led to a surge of anti-western sentiment in Russia. The fact that Americans and Europeans broadly sympathised with Georgia – when it was Mikheil Saakashvili’s attempt to take South Ossetia by force that started the war – infuriates many Russians.

  • Russia, China and the Georgia dimension
    Bulletin article by Bobo Lo, 01 October 2008

    Russia’s relations with the West today are more problematic than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With talk of a new Cold War and of parallels with the great power rivalries that preceded the First World War, Moscow’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Beijing has been out of the spotlight.
  • Pipelines, politics and power: The future of EU-Russia energy relations
    Report by Pavel Baev, Vaclav Bartuska, Christian Cleutinx, Clifford Gaddy, Roland Götz, Daniel Gros, Barry Ickes, Andrey Konoplyanik, Konstantin Kosachev, Tatiana Mitrova, Andris Piebalgs, Jeffery Piper, Pawel Swieboda, Dmitri Trenin, Sergey Yastrzhembsky , 01 October 2008

    Does the Kremlin use energy as a political weapon? Why is Russia’s oil and gas output stagnating? Can and should the EU try to reduce its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons? Are the EU and Russia engaged in a pipeline war? What does energy solidarity mean? What rules should govern EU-Russia energy relations?

  • Europe and the Georgia-Russia conflict
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Open democracy, 30 September 2008

    The European Union played a key diplomatic role in mediating the Caucasus war. Now it must do more to manage the wider tensions with Russia that have followed. Katinka Barysch offers a policy checklist.