Tag: Russia

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...

After COP26: Russia’s Path to the Global Green Future (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

At the COP26 UN climate change summit that ended last week, Russia was noted mainly for President Vladimir Putin’s decision not to attend in...

New Paradigm of US Foreign Policy and Relations with Russia (Dmitry Suslov, Valdai Discussion Club)

US foreign policy is undergoing an important transition. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan drew a final and symbolic line under the period of its foreign policy, which began not...

Russian ASAT Test Highlights (Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan, ORF)

Russia has joined the anti-satellite test frenzy, conducting a successful test on November 15. The United States Space Command issued a statement confirming that...

Russian-U.S. Diaspora Group Shuts Down, Blaming ‘FBI Measures’ (Mike Eckel, RFE RL)

A Russian cultural group in the United States says it has shut down after some of its members were questioned by FBI agents allegedly...

China highly appreciates Putin’s ‘China-Russia model’: FM (Global Times)

Russian President Vladimir Putin's positive statement on China-Russia relations once again shows that Russia, especially Putin himself, attaches great importance to the development of...