Re: Russia

Russia recorded lowest inflation for April and May since 1991. This is less a sign of stabilisation than evidence that the growth bubble of 2023–2025 has burst and parts of the civilian economy are contracting re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Russian society has developed an increasingly ambivalent attitude towards participants in the war: they tend to provoke caution and hostility rather than admiration, people avoid them socially, and employers seek not to hire them re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Ukraine’s expanding drone campaign is no longer focused only on oil facilities and military production. It is increasingly targeting Russia’s logistics network in occupied southern Ukraine, including the land route to Crimea — one of the Kremlin’s main strategic gains of the invasion re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

The war in Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz boosted Russia’s oil and gas revenues by 40% in April. Yet, the cumulative shortfall recorded in the first quarter still amounts to 550 billion roubles. Closing this gap will not be easy re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Some are fed up with bans, others with taxes or the ever-present sword of punishment and a sense of powerlessness. The grail of “Military Putinism” has unmistakably cracked. Kirill Rogov reflects on regime dynamics in Russia re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Orbán’s defeat reopened the question of Ukraine’s EU accession, but also brought Kyiv and its European allies close to conflict: Zelensky seeks fast-track membership as security guarantee, while EU states fear accession before reforms would weaken leverage over Kyiv re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Russia’s wartime economic boom has definitively ended. By early 2026, downturns had deepened across key industries — from metallurgy to manufacturing — while retail trade remained the only major sector still showing modest growth re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Despite years of costly ideological pressure, the Kremlin’s indoctrination efforts show limited results and may be counterproductive: top-down propaganda increasingly produces either neo-Soviet “doublethink” or resistance, especially among young Russians re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Russia’s Central Bank continues to cut the key rate despite elevated inflation and expectations. The scale of further cuts will determine whether there is a recession and how much pressure rising corporate debt puts on banks re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Russia’s language policy has shifted from regulation to enforcement: businesses face fines of up to 500,000 roubles for using non-approved foreign words outside the official state-language dictionary re-russia.net/en/expertise/0…

Russia adopted a new drone strategy against Ukraine. Drones are launched in massive waves to overload Ukraine’s air defence. There is little doubt that Moscow will seek to further build on this approach next winter, leaving Ukraine limited time to prepare re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Economist Oleg Vyugin argues that by mid-2026, Russia’s shift to inflationary stimulus may undermine growth in 2027. A return to inflation control will become unavoidable — turning into a political choice between funding the war and a peace deal re-russia.net/en/expertise/0…

“Military Putinism” now faces new domestic challenges for which it has no convincing response. This compels the regime to turn against its ‘loyal’ subjects, triggering intra-regime conflict — recently illustrated by Instagram celebrity Victoria Bonya re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary is bad news for the Kremlin: hopes he could lead a revisionist bloc to reshape Europe’s policy on Russia and Ukraine are dashed. Data: @arturo_varvelli @PiotrBuras1 @ColeStangler @nilsadler1 re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Putin’s confrontation with Telegram and VPNs has become a test of the regime’s limits: its ability to roll back basic modernisation comforts and impose a deliberately constrained, isolated internet will determine how far it can extend control over society re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

It is highly likely that Cuba will become the next target of American pressure on the international stage. Which transition scenarios are possible and likely, and who might influence their trajectory? And, what does Marco Rubio have to do with this? re-russia.net/en/expertise/0…

Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s ports handling 55% of crude exports and 90% of oil products caused significant disruption to oil flows. It remains unclear whether Russia can effectively counter them going forward re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Russia’s militarism is civilian-led: those driving it are absorbed by the cult of force but lack understanding of how the military works — creating a structural conflict with the armed forces that has surfaced in repeated crises during the war in Ukraine re-russia.net/en/expertise/0…

A series of elections in 2026 will test personalist regimes undermining democratic institutions in countries where they seemed consolidated. Hungary’s election in 9 days will be the first test. Data: @ipsosus @RCPolling @thehill @VSquare_Project re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…

Russia’s business climate indices now match their crisis 2015 and wartime early-2022 levels: both the aggregate index and most sectoral indicators have returned to previous lows re-russia.net/en/analytics/0…