🇷🇺 Russia
41 documents · 502k words · 15 blocks · 41 fact-checked, 1 fully verified
The Soviet Union in the Cold War: from Victory to Collapse (1945–1991)
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RU-A-04Putin's 2007 Munich Security Conference Speech
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RU-B-01The Medvedev Presidency (2008–2012)
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RU-B-02The 2011–2012 Bolotnaya Protest Movement (September 2011 – May 2014)
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RU-B-03The Tandem Switch and the 2012 Putin Return (September 2011 – May 2012)
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RU-C-01Putin's Third Presidential Term — Architecture, Crimea Inflection, Sanctions-Era Political Economy, and the 2018 Re-Election (7 May 2012 – 7 May 2018)
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Putin's Second Term and Centralisation (2004–2008)
3RU-A-00The Soviet Union in the Cold War: from Victory to Collapse (1945–1991)1945 – 1991Fact-checked12k wRU-A-01Putin's Consolidation of Power: The Siloviki State and the Power Vertical (2000–2008)2000–2008Fact-checked8k wRU-A-04Putin's 2007 Munich Security Conference Speech10 February 2007Verified8k w
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Medvedev Interregnum (2008–2012)
3RU-B-01The Medvedev Presidency (2008–2012)December 2007 – 7 May 2012Fact-checked14k wRU-B-02The 2011–2012 Bolotnaya Protest Movement (September 2011 – May 2014)September 2011 – May 2014Fact-checked11k wRU-B-03The Tandem Switch and the 2012 Putin Return (September 2011 – May 2012)September 2011 – 7 May 2012Fact-checked16k w
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Putin's Third Term and Crimea (2012–2018)
3RU-C-01Putin's Third Presidential Term — Architecture, Crimea Inflection, Sanctions-Era Political Economy, and the 2018 Re-Election (7 May 2012 – 7 May 2018)7 May 2012 – 7 May 2018Fact-checked9k wRU-C-02The 2014 Annexation of Crimea21 November 2013 through 25 May 2014Fact-checked5k wRU-C-03The 2014 Crimea Annexation Decision — Russian Perspective22 February 2014 through 21 March 2014Fact-checked18k w
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Putin's Fourth Term and the 2020 Constitutional Reset (2018–2024)
8RU-D-012020 Russian Constitutional Amendments — The Reset15 January 2020 – 4 July 2020Fact-checked15k wRU-D-02Alexei Navalny — Trajectory, Poisoning (August 2020), Imprisonment (2021–2024), and Death (16 February 2024)2008 – 16 February 2024Fact-checked15k wRU-D-0324 February 2022 Invasion of Ukraine — Decision and First-Year Operations24 February 2022 – 23 February 2023Fact-checked10k wRU-D-04The 2024 Russian Presidential Election and Putin's Fifth Term1 December 2023 – Q2 2026Fact-checked13k wRU-D-05Post-2022 Russian Wartime Governance — Institutional Transformation under the Special Military Operation Framework24 February 2022 – Q2 2026Fact-checked11k wRU-D-06The 2025 Trump-2 Administration Russia-Ukraine Negotiation Track — From the 20 January 2025 Inauguration through the 18 February 2025 Riyadh Rubio-Lavrov Framework, the 28 February 2025 Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Confrontation and the Subsequent US Military-Aid Suspension, the March-April 2025 Ceasefire-Proposal Sequence, the May 2025 Putin-Trump Phone Calls, the June 2025 Istanbul Russia-Ukraine Talks, and the August 2025 Alaska Putin-Trump Summit, into the End-of-2025 Trajectory as Paradigm Case of Great-Power Negotiation Architecture under Wartime Conditions5 November 2024 – August 2026Fact-checked18k wRU-D-07Russian Domestic Politics 2024–2025: The Putin Fifth Term, Belousov at MoD, the Crocus Attack, and the Kursk Counter-Offensive16 February 2024 – Q2 2026Fact-checked20k wRU-D-08Russian Domestic Politics 2025–2026: Wartime Fatigue, Regional Protest, Civil-Society Compression, and the Quiet Re-Opening of the Succession QuestionQ2 2025 – August 2026Fact-checked20k w
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Putin-5 (2024–present)
4RU-E-01The Russian Wartime Economy: Mobilisation, Sanctions Resilience, and Fiscal Sustainability (2022–2025)24 February 2022 – Q2 2026Fact-checked20k wRU-E-02The Russian Defence-Industrial Complex: From Rostec to Belousov's Ministry of Defence and the Wartime Mobilisation (2007–2025)23 November 2007 – Q2 2026Fact-checked19k wRU-E-03Russia's 2026 Federal Budget, NWF Liquid-Asset Depletion, and Sovereign-Finance Stress (2024–2026)Q3 2024 – August 2026Fact-checked17k wRU-E-04Western Sanctions Architecture and Russian Evasion: SWIFT, Oil Price Cap, Frozen Assets, and Parallel Imports, 2022–20262022–August 2026Fact-checked13k w
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Foreign Policy
3RU-F-01Russian Foreign Policy Doctrine — From the Primakov Turn (1996) to the Post-2022 Rupture1996–2026Fact-checked12k wRU-F-04Russia–Iran and Russia–DPRK — The Post-2022 Deepening and the "Axis of Upheaval" (2022–2026)2022–2026Fact-checked10k wRU-F-05Russia in Africa — From the Wagner Group to the Africa Corps (2017–2026)2017–2026Fact-checked10k w
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Economic Governance
3RU-G-01Russian Macroeconomic Architecture — From the Fortress Economy to the War Economy (2008–2026)2008–2026Fact-checked11k wRU-G-02Russia's Energy Political Economy — Gazprom, Rosneft, and the Petro-State (2000–2026)2000–2026Fact-checked11k wRU-G-03Russia's Financial System and Sanctions-Evasion Architecture — CBR Monetary Policy, SPFS, Parallel Imports, Friendly-Jurisdiction Banking, and the Shadow Fleet (2022–2026)2022–2026Fact-checked13k w
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Biographies
4RU-H-PM-01Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin (1966–)1966–2026Fact-checked11k wRU-H-PRES-01Vladimir Putin — A Biography (1952–2026)1952–2026Fact-checked9k wRU-H-PRES-02Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931–2007)1931–2007Fact-checked11k wRU-H-PRES-03Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965–)1965–2026Fact-checked13k w
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Institutions
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Contested Legacies
2RU-J-01Alexei Navalny — Poisoning, Imprisonment, Death (2020–2024): Three Accounts (Opposition/Western-Investigative, Kremlin/Official, Sceptical-Realist/Systemic)20 August 2020 – 16 February 2024Fact-checked10k wRU-J-02Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Yukos Affair (2003–2014): Three Accounts (Political-Destruction, Lawful-Reckoning/Oligarch-Justice, Systemic-Transition)2003–2014Fact-checked13k w
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Key Decisions
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Ideas and Frameworks
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External Lens
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Mega Trends and Forward View
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