By Christian May Kremlinology is an old Cold War concept referring to the study of key individuals high up in the Soviet government. Who was in favour, who hadn’t been seen in a while, who was winning power struggles and who had been shot; Western analysts devoured such intelligence in an effort to understand who was actually in charge and what policies might emerge as a result. Without a doubt, the British state continues to deploy considerable human and technical resources to the task of monitoring and understanding leading figures in the modern-day Kremlin, an institution every bit as paran…