Vadim Shtepa is an analyst and Editor-in-Chief of the Region.Expert web-magazine. His main research interests include Russian federalism and regionalism. He is a regular author for web-journals and newspapers, including Forbes.ru (Russia), New Region (Ukraine), Intersection (Poland), Spektr (Latvia), Ru.Delfi (Lithuania), Venäjän Kauppatie Lehti (Finland), and others. He is the author of two books, “Rutopia” (Moscow, 2004) and “Interregnum” (Petrozavodsk, 2012).
Today, all analytical attention seems to be focused on the full-scale war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine. However, thousands…
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Support for the Taliban regime appears to be unprecedented in Russian foreign policy, as it calls into question the official…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin interprets the nation not as a civil phenomenon, but as an ethno-religious community. This imperial mentality…
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Vladimir Putin has been declared a world pariah. This pariah aims to “conquer Europe”, primarily by financial and economic means.…
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