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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