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Springtime for Dima?
22nd May 2010 Rumours abound that a new, pro-western foreign policy shift is underway in Moscow. But if Russia really wants to attract European investment and American technology for the long-term it...
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The “Inertia Scenario”, Part Two: Russia’s Naval Ambitions
14th September 2010, In recent posts, Democratist has sought to highlight the significance, historical and contemporary, of Russia’s preoccupation with military competition – above all in relation to...
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Keeping Russia’s (other) army fed.
November 11th 2010. Democratist has been interested to read that Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin recently officially announced that Russia plans to spend $63 billion during the coming year in an attempt...
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Will the Egyptian Revolution influence Russian Military Reform?
8th February 2011, A stimulating piece by Pavel Baev in today’s Jamestown Eurasia Daily monitor . While we don’t necessarily agree with everything he says we found the following passage very...
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Autocracy and Innovation: Lessons from Russia and China.
17th February 2011, Democratist has just read another interesting article by Stephen Blank over at Jamestown, which serves to once again illustrate our oft-repeated point that autocratic rule and...
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Policy and innovation: A more detailed view.
March 14th 2011, So far in our “Democracy and Innovation” series, Democratist has outlined the liberal case that innovation generally requires the development of a creative and competitive culture,...
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The Russian Military Industrial Complex: An Unresolvable Discrepancy.
15th March 2011, In our last article in our “Democracy and Innovation” series we looked at Crane and Usanov’s analyis of the relationship between Russian government policy and the main internationally...
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Democracy and Innovation: Mr Putin’s Very Very Large White Elephant.
21st April 2011, Apart from its political implications, the most interesting thing about Prime Minister Putin’s speech to the Duma yesterday is what he said with regard the future of Russia’s five...
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