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Briefing Notes
  • 19 September 2025

Escalation in Europe: How the Kremlin is testing NATO’s limits

Russia is testing NATO’s defences through drone incursions and hybrid tactics, seeking to limit support for Ukraine and reshape Europe’s political landscape

Briefing Notes
  • 12 September 2025

Turning East: How Russia’s ambitions in Asia are confronted by reality

Russia’s Far East remains key to its Eastern strategy — but faces demographic decline, weak returns, and dependence on China despite major state investment

Briefing Notes
  • 5 September 2025

Russia in a multipolar world: equal player or junior partner to China?

Russia presents itself as China’s equal, but behind the rhetoric lies asymmetry: growing dependence, limited trust, and China’s rising dominance in Central Asia

Briefing Notes
  • 29 August 2025

The return of coercive signalling: why Moscow is resorting to nuclear blackmail

Following the failed Alaska summit, Moscow ramps up nuclear signalling and seeks to pressure the US into pushing Kyiv to make concessions

Briefing Notes
  • 22 August 2025

The Kremlin between war and negotiations

Putin seeks to secure the Donbas and limit Ukraine’s sovereignty, yet military shortfalls and shifting public opinion leave the Kremlin with few strategic options

Briefing Notes
  • 15 August 2025

What will Putin bring to Alaska?

Putin approaches the Alaska talks convinced the balance favours him, yet signalling readiness for tactical concessions to cement control of occupied territories and seek sanctions relief

Briefing Notes
  • 8 August 2025

Putin-Trump summit: Is Moscow changing course?

Moscow sees Trump’s vulnerability as a chance to explore a settlement in Ukraine while maintaining strategic advantage

Briefing Notes
  • 1 August 2025

Spiralling tensions: Is war between Russia and NATO possible?

While the Kremlin understands the strategic risks of direct conflict with NATO, it sees the Alliance’s current institutional and political fragmentation as an opportunity to intensify pressure by hybrid means

Briefing Notes
  • 27 July 2025

Digital sovereignty or digital dictatorship? How the Kremlin is tightening control over cyberspace during wartime

Russia tightens digital control with new bans and internet shutdowns, blending China’s isolation model with Belarus-style intimidation

Briefing Notes
  • 18 July 2025

Ultimatum without consequences: Russia’s view of Trump’s ‘major statement’

Trump’s 50-day ultimatum is seen in Moscow not as a threat, but as a window of opportunity: a chance to press ahead with the summer offensive before new sanctions return to the table

Briefing Notes
  • 12 July 2025

No longer looking to the Kremlin: how Russia is losing influence in the South Caucasus

Russia is losing its grip on the South Caucasus as Azerbaijan distances itself from Moscow – with wider implications

Briefing Notes
  • 3 July 2025

NATO’s five per cent pledge: the Kremlin’s reaction

NATO pledges 5% GDP defence spend by 2035, sparking Kremlin fears of a widening military gap and fuelling Moscow’s bid to exploit Western divisions

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