title: Imagining Russia’s future after Putin
abstract: The structure and dynamics of Russia’s future state system could take many forms and have been the subject of much analytical debate. The inner workings and decision-making processes of the Russian state are opaque and inaccessible, and challenged the understanding of Western governments even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This briefing paper attempts to investigate how one single tightly defined scenario constructed by the author – which assumes that the phase of active conflic