If 2020 taught us anything, it is humbly to acknowledge that any predictions are subject to the whims of fate. We cannot know with any certainty what will come in 2021, either. We can, however, at least try and unpick what appear to be the intentions of the Kremlin and other players in the political game, and extrapolate from that, but this does not give itself to especially upbeat speculation.
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Mark Galeotti: Russia in 2021
Cars are seen stuck in a traffic jam on an embankment of the Moskva river outside the Kremlin during a heavy snowfall in Moscow on Dec. 25, 2020.
