‘Putin Will Be Forced to Choose Between Oligarchs and Public,’ Wikistrat, 1 January 2016

‘Talking Policy: Mark Galeotti on Russia,’ interview in World Policy Blog, 1 January 2016

‘Russia’s New National Security Strategy: familiar themes, gaudy rhetoric,’ War On The Rocks, 4 January 2016

‘Yuri Andropov Would Drop Assad Like a Hot Kartoshka,’ Foreign Policy, 7 January 2016

‘Fix Russia’s ****ing Prison System,’ Russia! magazine, 18 January 2016

‘STOLYPIN: Russia needs its Brains,’ IntelliNews Business New Europe, 18 January 2016

‘We Don’t Know What To Call Russian Military Intelligence and That May Be A Problem,’ War On The Rocks, 19 January 2016

‘Who Needs Assassins When You’ve Got Hackers?’, New York Times, 22 January 2016

‘Mark Galeotti: in Russia corrupted elite often interact with organized crime‘, interview with Dozhd-TV, 27 January 2016 [video, in English; here dubbed into Russian]

‘The Litvinenko Affair: An Anglo-Russian Exercise in Futility,’ Moscow Times, 28 January 2016