Economics
A clear-eyed assessment of the Russian economy under the weight of war and sanctions: the pressures building beneath the surface, the cost borne by ordinary people, and the ways the system adapts—and what it all means for Russia's future and for markets far beyond its borders
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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. If you are interested how “Russia…
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…
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…
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…