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Jul 31, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Ivan Kurilla |Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan |RM Associates

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of his country in February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with Western countries to leave Russia.

Jul 18, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan |RM Associates

Moreover, the two times Levada asked Russians whether it was Russia or Ukraine that was more interested in peace talks, the share of respondents who pointed to their country exceeded the share of those who pointed to Ukraine. In June 2023, 17% of Levada’s Russian respondents said Ukraine was more interested in peace talks, while 38% of these respondents said Russia was more interested, and 30% said both countries were equally interested.

Jun 27, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan |RM Associates |Kate Davidson

The Labour Party, which is set to take power in the U.K. after the General Election on July 4, has campaigned under the slogan “Time for Change.” While there are many areas where Labour’s leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is eyeing change, policy toward Russia and Ukraine will not be among them.

Jun 20, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Olga Kiyan |RM Associates |Kate Davidson |Raphael J. Piliero

June 20, 2024 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s post-inaugural reshuffles have created ripples in the pool of potential successors. Promoted to the rank of a vice premier, Dmitry Patrushev, son of ex-secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, has been highlighted as a contender, as has Aleksey Dyumin, whom Putin has just made his assistant responsible for Russia’s sprawling defense industry.

Jun 12, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Kate Davidson |Andrei Yakovlev |Simon Saradzhyan |RM Associates

When Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a fifth term as Russia’s president at the age of 71, the Russian ruler—whom the country’s exiled opposition likes to refer to as the “old man in the bunker”— he was visibly the oldest participants in the lavish ceremony broadcast from the grand halls of the Kremlin on May 7, 2024.