In Moscow's Shadows 182: Things To Watch in 2025

In Moscow's Shadows

Outright prediction may be a mug's game, but what are some of the people and processes I will be watching in 2025?
For those who get lost in the flow, they are:
PERSONALIA

· Elvira Nabiullina

· Ramzan Kadyrov

· Alexander Khinshtein

· Alexei Dyumin

· Sergei Naryshkin

· Nikolai Patrushev

· (Not Mikhail Mishustin/Anton Vaino)

INSTITS

· Security Council

· FSB

· State Council

PROCESSES

· ‘Covert federalisation’

· Lateral alliances

· End of party pseudo-politics?

· Rise of SVO generation?

· Labour shortage

· Deviancy

POLICIES

· Shadow War

· Africa/North Africa

· India
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