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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