Tag: Russia

Moscow tells 13 mostly U.S. tech firms they must set up in Russia by 2022 (Alexander Marrow and Gleb Stolyarov, Reuters)

Russia has demanded that 13 foreign and mostly U.S. technology companies be officially represented on Russian soil by the end of 2021 or face...

How to Deter Russia Now (Daniel Fried, John E. Herbst, Alexander Vershbow, Atlantic Council)

War drums are beating in Europe. For the second time this year, Moscow is assembling up to 100,000 troops and military hardware on its...

Second Lawyer Working On High Treason Case Flees Russia (RFE RL)

A second lawyer for jailed Russian journalist Ivan Safronov, who is charged with high treason, has fled the country. Yevgeny Smirnov told The Insider investigative group on...

Russia, Ukraine Both Hold Combat Drills Amid Heightened Tensions (RFE RL)

Russia and Ukraine both held military exercises on November 24 amid rising tensions prompted by reports of a large Russian military buildup near the...

Navalny Files Another Lawsuit Against The Penal Colony Where He’s Being Held (RFE RL)

Jailed Kremlin-critic Aleksei Navalny has filed another lawsuit against Correctional Colony No. 2 in the Vladimir region where he is serving a prison sentence that he...

Russia and Ukraine step up military alert with combat drills (Al Jazeera)

Russia has staged military drills in the Black Sea, south of Ukraine, and said it needed to sharpen the combat-readiness of its conventional and...

Will Russia ever leave fossil fuels behind? (Angelina Davydova, BBC)

The small West Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, home to just over 100,000 people, is Russia's unofficial capital of oil. The town is surrounded by...

Chinese, Russian militaries to strengthen strategic exercises, joint patrols: defense ministers (Fan Anqi and Du Qiongfang, Global Times)

Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense, Wei Fenghe, and Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, held talks on Tuesday via video link, during...

If the Russian military crashes through a forest, will NATO hear a sound? (John R. Deni, Defense News)

Russian military forces have massed on the border with Ukraine as well as in Russian-occupied Crimea. Tens of thousands of Russian troops, armored forces and elite...

Will Putin miscalculate? (Steven Pifer, Brookings)

Europe currently faces several crises exploited or instigated by Russia. Speculation runs rampant regarding what Vladimir Putin hopes to achieve. He should take care...

Space Force general: ‘We’re not as advanced as the Chinese or the Russians’ with hypersonic missiles (Brad Dress, The Hill)

American hypersonic missile capabilities are "not as advanced" as those of China or Russia, Space Force General David Thompson said Saturday at the Halifax...

Podcast: What’s the Kremlin’s Strategy on the European Energy Crunch? (Alexander Gabuev, Sergei Kapitonov, Katja Yafimava, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Podcast host Alexander Gabuev is joined by Katja Yafimava, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and Sergei Kapitonov, a...

Russian Foreign Policy: Shifting Gears (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

President Vladimir Putin often makes statements on foreign policy. Just last month, he spent several hours discussing world affairs at the annual Valdai Club...

What Does China’s Isolation Mean for Ties With Russia? (Yaroslav Shevchenko, Carnegie Moscow Center)

When the devastating wave of the pandemic was only just rising over Europe and the United States in March 2020, China had already declared victory over...

One Year On: Russia and the South Caucasus After the Karabakh War (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Recent fresh clashes on the Armenian-Azeri border have highlighted the harsh reality: the Second Karabakh War has changed the status quo, but failed to...

Can COP26 Clear the Air Between Russia and the West? (Alexander Baunov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The COP26 summit on climate change in Glasgow was an attempt to write global climate rules with which everyone—or almost everyone—will agree. The fight...