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Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov have a personal relationship based on mutual dependence. Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

November 9, 2023

Chechnya’s boss and Putin’s foot soldier: How Ramzan Kadyrov became such a feared figure in Russia

Anya Free, Arizona State University and Marat Iliyasov, George Washington University

The leader of Chechnya rules with brute force, impunity and near autonomy. Why doesn’t Vladimir Putin rein him in?

Recruits attend military training at a firing range in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia in October 2022, eight months into Russia’s war in Ukraine. The mobilization of recruits was a sign of Russian acknowledgement that it was engaged in full-fledged war, not a ‘special military operation.’ (AP Photo)

January 25, 2023

Why Russia’s war in Ukraine today is so different from a year ago

Alexander Hill, University of Calgary

Russia’s army in Ukraine is fighting a much more artillery-intensive and methodical war than it was almost a year ago.

October 30, 2022

Could Russia collapse?

Matthew Sussex, Australian National University

There are 3 reasons why we shouldn’t discount the possibility that defeat in Ukraine might make the Kremlin’s edifice crumble.

The Wagner Group: highly trained mercenaries linked to a supporter of Vladimir Putin. Adeline Fjodorowitsch/Alamy Stock Photo

April 13, 2022

Ukraine war: the key role played by volunteer militias on both sides of the conflict

Dale Pankhurst, Queen's University Belfast

A lot of the fighting in Ukraine is being done by non-state militias, some with a chequered history.

Cars drive past a building with a huge letter Z, a symbol of the Russian military, and a hashtag reading ‘we don’t abandon our own’ in Moscow on March 30, 2022. (AP Photo)

April 4, 2022

War‑time media reporting is shaping opinions about Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Anton Oleinik, Memorial University of Newfoundland

The transmission of truth about the war against Ukraine is a criminal offense in Russia. Without access to the complete information about the war, Russian population continues to support it.

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