Tag: Russia

Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference (Kremlin)

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues. I think that we can get down to work. There is quite a distance between us, but I do hope that our technical staff...
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Foreign Minister Says Euro-Atlantic Security Will Soon Be ‘Decided In Ukraine’ (RFE RL)

Amid a Russian military buildup, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called on the United States and Europe to treat Ukraine as part of...
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Chinese embassy debunks US media report claiming Beijing requested Moscow not to invade Ukraine during Winter Olympics: TASS (Global Times)

Chinese Embassy in Russia refuted a Bloomberg report which claimed that the Chinese leader allegedly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine...
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Biden must act now to better arm Ukraine. Here’s what that should look like (Bradley Bowman, John Hardie and Jack Sullivan, Defense News)

As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to add troops on Ukraine’s borders in preparation for a potential large-scale military operation, the Biden administration is reportedly weighing...
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Russian-Led Mission in Kazakhstan Unveils New Peacekeeping Model (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia’s peacekeeping intervention with four minor allies in Kazakhstan (January 6 through January 19—see Part One in EDM, January 19, 2022) brings to six the number...
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Kremlin Refocuses Its Propaganda in Preparation for War (Kseniya Kirillova, The Jamestown Foundation)

While Russia continues to build up its military forces on the Ukrainian border (see EDM, December 13, 2021 and January 20, 2022), the Kremlin has also stepped...
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Water Crises and the Looming Ecological Catastrophe in Occupied Crimea and Devastated Donbas (Alla Hurska, The Jamestown Foundation)

The critical, chronic and worsening water shortages gripping the Crimean Peninsula derive from a combination of long-term and complex (both anthropogenic and natural) factors...
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Russian Hybrid Threats Report: Troops arrive in Belarus as propaganda narratives heat up (Atlantic Council)

As the crisis in Europe over Ukraine heats up, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Russia’s movements across...
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What if Russia invades Ukraine (again)? Consider these options for sanctions escalation (Brian O’Toole and Daniel Fried, Atlantic Council)

Just weeks into 2022—amid Western refusal to give into Kremlin demands for a sphere of domination in Central and Eastern Europe—intensified Russian attacks on...
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Kazakhstan Protests Involve Russians, Adding to Moscow’s Worries About Stability (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Moscow was alarmed by the protests in Kazakhstan earlier this month primarily because they represented an attack of the population against the regime, something...
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Russian Troops Deploy to Belarus With Fanfare (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tensions have been flying high between Moscow and the West for months, with little prospect currently of imminent de-escalation. Stress is also mounting between...
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By intervening in Kazakhstan, Russia strengthens its hand in China’s energy market (Paddy Ryan, Atlantic Council)

As a popular uprising ousted Nursultan Nazarbayev, a thirty-year strongman ruler-turned eminence gris, Kazakhstan stood on the precipice of revolution. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s decision to solicit...
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How Europe can reclaim its voice in the Russia crisis (Ana Palacio, El Pais, Atlantic Council)

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States are reconstituted on the basis of national sovereignty.” This warning by Jean Monnet—the crux...
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Will Russia make a military move against Ukraine? Follow these clues (Atlantic Council)

For weeks, the eyes of the world have been on a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine, as Western officials struggle to decipher Russian President...
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China, Russia, Iran complete joint drill amid ‘restrictions on sea routes from some major powers’ (Leng Shumei, Global Times)

China, Russia and Iran held a three-day maritime joint exercise in the Gulf of Oman, aiming to deepen pragmatic cooperation among the navies of...
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US, Europe present united front before Blinken-Lavrov talks (Al Jazeera)

The United States and its Western allies have insisted they will be united in responding strongly to any Russian incursion into Ukraine before talks...
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