Mikhail Komin
@kominmo.bsky.social
Political analyst, Russia expert (elites, bureaucracy, government data, policy-making process). Editor at Novaya Gazeta Europe; Research Fellow at CEPA
1/ Together with @Veer_Laine, I’ve contributed a chapter on Russia to the new Routledge volume Competing Visions for International Order (2025). It explores how Moscow imagines the world as a “sovereign state-civilisation” — a moral counterpole to the West
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www.routledge.com/Competing-V...
Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation
This book explores the international ordering visions of key global and regional powers in the international system from 2014 onwards.
Using a fourfold analytical framework based on the distributional, normative, institutional, and temporal dimensions of the visions propagated by the relevant political elites in the states/actors in question, the book addresses the ultimate question in international relations for the coming decades: To what extent can the visions pushed forward by the leading po
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November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
1/ Together with @Veer_Laine, I’ve contributed a chapter on Russia to the new Routledge volume Competing Visions for International Order (2025). It explores how Moscow imagines the world as a “sovereign state-civilisation” — a moral counterpole to the West
www.routledge.com/Competing-V...
www.routledge.com/Competing-V...
1/ The Kremlin’s hierarchy is shifting.
The new "The Economist" story with my small contibutions explains how the war in Ukraine has elevated a new class — ultra-conservatives, relatives, and "svp" veterans — while sidelining old groups and technocrats in particular
www.economist.com/1843/2025/1...
The new "The Economist" story with my small contibutions explains how the war in Ukraine has elevated a new class — ultra-conservatives, relatives, and "svp" veterans — while sidelining old groups and technocrats in particular
www.economist.com/1843/2025/1...
October 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
1/ The Kremlin’s hierarchy is shifting.
The new "The Economist" story with my small contibutions explains how the war in Ukraine has elevated a new class — ultra-conservatives, relatives, and "svp" veterans — while sidelining old groups and technocrats in particular
www.economist.com/1843/2025/1...
The new "The Economist" story with my small contibutions explains how the war in Ukraine has elevated a new class — ultra-conservatives, relatives, and "svp" veterans — while sidelining old groups and technocrats in particular
www.economist.com/1843/2025/1...
1/ Russia is quietly preparing a new way to send more men to war — without announcing another mobilization.
A new, announced today amendment allows special reservists to be mobilized without Martial law and been sent to fight abroad
www.rbc.ru/politics/13...
A new, announced today amendment allows special reservists to be mobilized without Martial law and been sent to fight abroad
www.rbc.ru/politics/13...
В правительстве одобрили идею Минобороны о спецсборах для резервистов
Правительственная комиссия по законопроектной деятельности поддержала идею Минобороны разрешить использовать резервистов в мирное время. Они смогут решать задачи за пределами России, отметил генерал
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October 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
1/ Russia is quietly preparing a new way to send more men to war — without announcing another mobilization.
A new, announced today amendment allows special reservists to be mobilized without Martial law and been sent to fight abroad
www.rbc.ru/politics/13...
A new, announced today amendment allows special reservists to be mobilized without Martial law and been sent to fight abroad
www.rbc.ru/politics/13...
1/ If you’re puzzled by the recent flurry of asset seizures from Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office — and why Igor Krasnov, on his way to a “promotion,” kept signing new expropriation suits — I unpack it in the recently published commentary for Carnegie carnegieendowment.org/russia-eura...
Изъятия на посошок. Как замена генпрокурора перебалансировала силовой блок
Похоже, президент в последний момент решил не вознаграждать за эффективность принесшего бюджету триллионы рублей Краснова, а предпочел умерить его пыл и обезопасить систему от слишком вознесшегося молодого волка с товарищами в ФСБ.
carnegieendowment.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
1/ If you’re puzzled by the recent flurry of asset seizures from Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office — and why Igor Krasnov, on his way to a “promotion,” kept signing new expropriation suits — I unpack it in the recently published commentary for Carnegie carnegieendowment.org/russia-eura...
1/ Russia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, before moving to the Supreme Court, launched a new asset seizure — this time against SPbGUP, the fiefdom of Alexander Zapesotsky.
🔗 www.kommersant.ru/doc/8058267
🔗 www.kommersant.ru/doc/8058267
Прокуроры занялись профсоюзным обучением
Генпрокуратура требует вернуть государству имущество гуманитарного университета
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September 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
1/ Russia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, before moving to the Supreme Court, launched a new asset seizure — this time against SPbGUP, the fiefdom of Alexander Zapesotsky.
🔗 www.kommersant.ru/doc/8058267
🔗 www.kommersant.ru/doc/8058267
1/ New @bbcrussian piece with my comments on Russia’s icebreaker fleet and why sanctions hit especially hard in the Arctic.
🔗 www.bbc.com/russian/art...
🔗 www.bbc.com/russian/art...
Битва за Арктику. Как Россия начала отставать в производстве ледоколов - BBC News Русская служба
В России за последние три года сдали в эксплуатацию всего один атомный ледокол, хотя до начала полномасштабной войны с Украиной сдавали по судну в год. Российский ледокольный флот стремительно устаревает. Планы Кремля по покорению Арктики буксуют на фоне санкций и сложностей с поставками запчастей.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
1/ New @bbcrussian piece with my comments on Russia’s icebreaker fleet and why sanctions hit especially hard in the Arctic.
🔗 www.bbc.com/russian/art...
🔗 www.bbc.com/russian/art...
Continued my annual tradition of writing for @ecfr.eu on Russia’s local elections. The Kremlin uses these votes to test what may happen in the real campaigns
In 2025 we saw the growing role of war veterans—now entering regional parliaments and expected to fill the Duma in 2026
ecfr.eu/article/fro...
In 2025 we saw the growing role of war veterans—now entering regional parliaments and expected to fill the Duma in 2026
ecfr.eu/article/fro...
From battlefield to ballot box: Why Russia is drafting war veterans into politics
The rising prominence of veterans of the war in Ukraine will widen Russia’s elite coalition pushing for continued confrontation with the West…
ecfr.eu
September 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Continued my annual tradition of writing for @ecfr.eu on Russia’s local elections. The Kremlin uses these votes to test what may happen in the real campaigns
In 2025 we saw the growing role of war veterans—now entering regional parliaments and expected to fill the Duma in 2026
ecfr.eu/article/fro...
In 2025 we saw the growing role of war veterans—now entering regional parliaments and expected to fill the Duma in 2026
ecfr.eu/article/fro...
Reposted by Mikhail Komin
The rising prominence of veterans of the war in Ukraine will widen Russia’s elite coalition pushing for continued confrontation with the West, writes Mikhail Komin @ecfrpower.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/41ZOv1o
https://bit.ly/41ZOv1o
From battlefield to ballot box: Why Russia is drafting war veterans into politics
The rising prominence of veterans of the war in Ukraine will widen Russia’s elite coalition pushing for continued confrontation with the West…
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September 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The rising prominence of veterans of the war in Ukraine will widen Russia’s elite coalition pushing for continued confrontation with the West, writes Mikhail Komin @ecfrpower.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/41ZOv1o
https://bit.ly/41ZOv1o