Russia Reform Monitor No. 2581
Gamers, the Kremlin's next target;
Assessing Russia's future warfighting potential;
Moscow seeks to manipulate German politics;
Russia's rich get richer
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Russia Reform Monitor No. 2580
The Russian economy limps along... for now;
Russia is increasingly China's junior partner;
For the Kremlin, food is a weapon;
Compensating Ukraine for Crimea (after a fashion);
Moscow is hacking American munitions;
Russian energy for the Ayatollahs
Russia Reform Monitor No. 2579
A carve-out for Tokyo on Russian crude;
The real possibility of a wider war;
Sanctions flip Russia's tech strategy on its head;
Moscow turns to E-summons;
Navalny's condition deteriorates further
Russia’s Independent Media Diaspora Needs Our Support
With the outbreak of the Ukraine war more than a year ago, Russia's already unfree media sphere has constricted precipitously. New regulations and constraints imposed by a Kremlin desperate to control the narrative about its "special military operation" have made independent journalism virtually impossible inside the country, and precipitated a mass exodus of journalists, producers, and opposition media figures to locations in Europe and beyond.
Russia Reform Monitor No. 2578
Wagner fighters win their freedom;
Deepening Russo-Iranian economic ties;
The Chechens make contingency plans;
Russian arms trade with India impacted;
More grim evidence of military brutality...;
...And battlefield missteps