Category: Economics

Russia has fundamentally changed after 2014

Russia has fundamentally changed after 2014

Valeria Jegisman of Free Russia Foundation, sat down with Alexandr Morozov during his recent visit to Washington, D.C., to talk about Russia’s political system and future, the impact…

dsr_admin Apr 21, 2018

Putin’s 4 percent: How criminal kingpins with Kremlin connections launder oil money in Monaco

As The Insider found out, money made by Russian businessmen with gang affiliations and Kremlin connections in Russian ports are still being laundered in Monaco and Liechtenstein—after…

admin Jan 18, 2018
The Return of the Prodigal Trillion

The Return of the Prodigal Trillion

Gorgeous fall colors in Washington, DC. The perfect season for tourists. Including businesspeople. This fall, a new and growing class of tourists is roaming the DC streets: Russian…

admin Oct 24, 2017
Corruption Pipeline: The Threat of Nord Stream 2 to EU Security and Democracy

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,…

admin Oct 16, 2017

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…

natalya Aug 22, 2017

Kremlin has simply no time for Russian regions

In the context of recent all-Russia protests we have decided to take a deeper look on what is happening in Russian regions and what kind of local agenda…

admin Mar 31, 2017

Stop funding RT: Better ways to spend the budget money

State Duma, the Russian Parliament have just adopted Russian federal budget for 2017. No cuts for funding propaganda was made, of course.

anya Dec 21, 2016

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…

admin Sep 20, 2016

Corruption A La Russe

Until a few years ago most Russian opposition members had strongly believed that exposing corruption schemes is a way to consolidate people with different views making them realize…

webeditor Apr 11, 2016

Economic Crisis and The Protests

A section of Russian analysts view the political potential for protests in Russia in the near future with scepticism: in the conditions of an economic crisis, Russians- adapting…

admin Mar 29, 2016

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