Historian Sergey Chernyshov talks about a new phenomenon in education in Russia: backed by oligarch money, Russian schools are ditching Western models and going back to Soviet and even prerevolutionary ones.

Political analyst Andrei Kolesnikov looks at public sentiment in Russia two and a half years since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and why attitudes toward the government remain unchanged despite the Ukrainian penetration into Kursk Region or the threat of drones attacking Russian cities.

Oil and gas market expert Mikhail Krutikhin says the lack of interest from China in the Power of Siberia 2 project rendered Putin’s recent visit to Mongolia largely meaningless.

The latest Levada Center monthly surveys, conducted weeks after the Ukrainian army attacked Kursk Region, have recorded rising anxiety, though it is currently at much lower levels than during the partial mobilization in the autumn of 2022. Perhaps a more alarming sign for the authorities, as Levada Center Director Denis Volkov points out, is deteriorating assessments of the economy.