Tag: Russia

(Russia/Gazprom/Dagestan) Gazprom Wants to Abandon Money-Losing Gas Distribution Obligations in Dagestan (The Jamestown Foundation)

Valery Dzutsati Russian energy giant Gazprom wants to completely abandon its natural gas retail sales and distribution business in Dagestan because those operations bring the...

(Russia/Europe) Russia Blackmails and Courts Europe (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev Tense political relations with Europe have come into sharp focus in Russian domestic debates, forcing a sudden backtrack. https://jamestown.org/program/russia-blackmails-and-courts-europe/

(USA/Russia) More Coherence, Greater Tension: Prospects for US Policy toward Russia under Biden (INSS)

Ari Heistein Under President Trump, the United States did not have a coherent and unified Russia policy. Congress maintained a traditional approach of using sanctions...

(Russia/Alexey Navalny) What the Navalny Affair Actually Means for Russia (The National Interest)

Mark Episkopos The fallout from the ongoing Navalny saga extends beyond Russia’s domestic affairs, contributing to a dangerous cycle of escalation between Moscow and the...

(Russia/Alexey Navalny) Can Navalny Take Down Putin? (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA Unlike the protests that roiled Russia in 2011-12 in response to Vladimir Putin’s third presidency, today’s protest movement has a charismatic and...

(Russia) Alexei Navalny and Public Dissent in Russia (BESA Center)

Emil Avdaliani The massive protests staged in Russia by supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny pose a serious threat to the country’s political elite. The...

(Russia/Free Press) Meet Mediazona, the punk rock-founded Russian news outlet whose editor was jailed for a tweet (CPJ)

Elena Rodina, Europe and Central Asia Research Associate Of the more than 100 Russian journalists who have been arrested or fined covering rallies in support of jailed...

(Russia) Russia Cracks Down on Planned Valentine’s Day Protest (HRW)

Damelya Aitkhozhina Today, Russian authorities threatened to file charges against people who take part in protests scheduled for February 14. Prosecutors also threatened prosecution of social media and website...

(Russia/NATO) Russian Aerospace Forces Journal Recommends Preventive Strike Against NATO (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy, visited Moscow in person last week (February 5)—still highly unusual during...

(Russia/Climate Change) Moscow’s Climate Change Dilemma (Carnegie Moscow Center)

Olivia Lazard https://carnegie.ru/commentary/83842

(USA/Russia) EU support for Russian democracy is inadequate (Brookings)

Constanze Stelzenmüller https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/02/09/eu-support-for-russian-democracy-is-inadequate/

(Russia/Red Sea) Russia Joins the Red Sea Scramble (Fair Observer)

Corrado Cok https://www.fairobserver.com/region/middle_east_north_africa/corrado-cok-russia-red-sea-port-sudan-turkey-gulf-us-international-security-news-14151/

(Germany/Russia) Dead-end pragmatism: Germany’s Russia strategy after Merkel (ECFR)

Gustav Gressel https://ecfr.eu/article/dead-end-pragmatism-germanys-russia-strategy-after-merkel/

(Russia) Russia Aims To Win The Hypersonic Weapons Arms Race (1945)

Peter Suciu https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/02/russia-aims-to-win-the-hypersonic-weapons-arms-race/

(Russia) Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Is Armed To The Teeth (1945)

Caleb Larson https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/02/russias-only-aircraft-carrier-is-armed-to-the-teeth/

(USA/Russia) Dealing With Biden’s America (Carnegie Moscow Center)

Dmitri Trenin https://carnegie.ru/commentary/83829