is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and head of its Centre for European Security. His most recent book, The Vory: Russia’s super mafia, will be published by Yale University Press in April 2018. He blogs at ‘In Moscow’s Shadows’ and tweets @MarkGaleotti.
The term ‘hybrid war’ has become synonymous with Russian aggression. It denotes a style of warfare that combines the political, economic, social and kinetic, in a kind of conflict that recognizes no boundaries between covert and overt war. However, this definition fails to recognize crucial distinctions in Russian strategy, writes Mark Galeotti.
Having turned the law into an instrument of state policy and private vendetta, and having turned the legislature into a caricature without power or independence, can Vladimir Putin afford to become an ex-president? As the Russian leader prepares to be re-anointed in an election on 18 March, Mark Galeotti explores Putin’s options.
