Ilya Zaslavskiy

Ilya Zaslavskiy

Expert on energy policy and political risks consultant

Holds a Master’s in International Relations from Oxford University and an Executive Master’s in Energy Management from BI Norwegian Business School. Previously a fellow at Chatham House, Hudson Institute, and Legatum Institute. Specializes in Russian corruption networks, illicit financial flows, and energy geopolitics. Worked in Russia’s energy sector until 2008, when he was targeted in a politically motivated case. Publishes research on sanctions, authoritarian influence, and corporate transparency.

12 Publications

Publications

12 publications
Economics

Nord Stream 2—Entrenching Putin’s Economic and Political Corruption

Nord Stream 2—Entrenching Putin’s Economic and Political Corruption The traumatic exit of the US military from Kabul has removed covers from an elephant in the room…

Article Aug 31, 2021
Economics

Monaco’s Minister of Justice implicated by Kremlin’s oligarch

The case of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is a story of impunity both in Russia and in the West. This oligarch, who was connected with the Kremlin and…

Article Jun 11, 2019
Kremlin's Malign Influence

Is Putin’s Kremlin subverting Israeli democracy? A Russia expert thinks so

A devastating, complacency-shattering interview with Ilya Zaslavskiy, one of the world's leading experts on Moscow's overt and covert designs on the West. This article originally appeared in The…

Article Aug 22, 2018
Civil Society

Justice Ginsburg, don’t accept a prize backed by Putin’s oligarchs

Whatever Natalie Portman’s own reasons were for turning down the so-called “Jewish Nobel” awarded by the Genesis Prize Foundation, she did the right thing. The Genesis Foundation now…

Article Apr 26, 2018
Economics

Corruption Pipeline: The Threat of Nord Stream 2 to EU Security and Democracy

This paper is a continuation of publications on the Kremlin’s subversive activity in Europe prepared by Free Russia Foundation. The first paper, The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe,…

Report Oct 16, 2017
Politics

How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West

When the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991, it was widely believed that Western-style democracy and liberal capitalism based on free elections, separation of powers and the rule of…

Article Sep 9, 2017
Economics

Conclusions from exposing security threats of Nord Stream-2 and post-Soviet corruption in the West

As part of my work for Free Russia Foundation, I am carrying out research on two projects. The first one is devoted to influencing that Gazprom and its…

Article Aug 22, 2017
Politics

Trump’s Pledge To Enforce the Global Magnitsky Act—A Skeptical View

Earlier this month the White House sent a letter to Congress pledging a commitment to the “robust and thorough enforcement” of the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act (GMA). The GMA, which grew…

Article Jun 1, 2017
Kremlin's Malign Influence

The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers

Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu’s Eurasia Center and the Free Russia Foundation presents "The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers," a new brief by our expert…

Report May 25, 2017
Politics

Kislyak’s spider web of networks of oligarchs and Putin’s apologists in the U.S.

U.S. media has recently thrown a lot of light on subversion operations of Russian officials in the US.  But even today, after waves of revelations of Moscow’s state-led

Article Mar 15, 2017
Economics

The Tsar and His Business Serfs

Free Russia Foundation and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies are happy to present our new joint report “The Tsar and His Business Serfs. Russian Oligarchs and SMEs…

Report Sep 20, 2016
Politics

Putin’s values pose old and new existential threats to the West

Vladimir Putin is coming to the General Assembly (GA) of the United Nations this month. This visit has sparked a discussion about his motives and intentions among Russian-speaking

Article Sep 10, 2015

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