Putin’s desire to postpone the necessary and broadly popular decision on ending his war against Ukraine is driven not by the expectations of gains but by the fear of the looming question about his ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Steven Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s key negotiator, met last Friday in what could mark a decisive moment in making or breaking a peace deal on Russia’s ...

The surge of political attention to the Arctic may appear counter-intuitive to the experts overtaxed with assessing the consequences of the global trade war, perplexed by the deadlock of the Ukraine ...

The organizers of the Russian Economic Forum in London never thought that the Kremlin would sanction their high-profile event. The main strength of the economic policy of corrupt dirigisme is its ...

Niklas Bremberg is Associate Professor at Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Europe Programme at the Swedish Institute of International ...

Moscow finds itself at the periphery of high-intensity political interactions focused on a geo-economic power struggle, but it is not spared the consequences of escalating tensions and multiple ...

Throughout the conference, participants presented cutting-edge research on a range of pressing issues, including regional security dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe, the influence of political ...

Putin’s pretense for readiness to bring the war to an end is negated by his own war-mongering rhetoric. The Kremlin seeks to downplay this intransigence and to create incentives for bilateral Russia-U ...

Russia is one of the few countries not directly affected by the new U.S. trade tariffs. The effects on its economy, however, are still profound, while the political consequences are open to ...

The advent of COVID-19 and the global lockdown of 2020 allowed us to write an article in which we highlighted that the post-COVID world would remain unknown and uncertain[1]. One thing is certain: we ...

PRIO’s engagement with issues around the use of artificial intelligence was in full display last week, when PRIO researchers joined key UN discussions in Geneva on AI-enabled weapons and satellite ...