Tag: Russia

Prague-Based Media Group Faces Fine For Not Observing Requirements Of Russia’s ‘Foreign Agent’ Law (RFE RL)

The Prague-based MEDIUM-ORIENT news agency is facing a fine in Russia for its alleged failure to follow the requirements of Russia's controversial "foreign agent"...
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Belarusian-Russian Economic Dependency and Trade Wars: Is There a Contradiction? (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two stories involving Belarus that have been unfolding over the past few weeks appear to contradict each other on the surface. These are the...
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Russia’s ‘Re-Exploration’ of Siberia and the Far East: Tools, Plans, Ambitions (Part One) (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

In addition to other notable developments, the Sixth Eastern Economic Forum 2021 (EEF-2021), held on September 2–4, in Vladivostok (see EDM, September 14), unraveled an...
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Putin’s Valdai Platitudes Obscure Worsening Domestic Situation (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The annual meeting of the Valdai Club last week (October 18–21) was less pompous than usual, and many foreign guests attended virtually; but Russian...
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Russia’s Communist Comeback (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Russia's Communist Party performed strongly in last month’s parliamentary and regional elections – and would have performed better, had the vote not been (most...
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Moscow expects US to fulfill promise of assistance to Afghanistan, says Russian envoy (TASS)

Moscow is counting on Washington to will fulfill its promise of socio-economic assistance to Afghanistan, Russian Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said, addressing...
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Russia to support UN in organizing donor conference on Afghanistan — envoy (TASS)

Moscow is interested in convening a UN donor conference on Afghanistan as soon as possible, Special Russian Presidential Representative for Afghanistan, Director of the...
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Putin requests providing measures to neutralize European energy crisis aftermath in Russia (TASS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked the government with developing measures to neutralize in the country the negative consequences of Europe’s energy crisis by...
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Moscow to push for unfreezing of Afghan foreign assets, says Russian envoy (TASS)

The freezing of Afghanistan’s assets in the US and EU is ridiculous, they should be unfrozen, which Moscow will be pushing for, Russian Presidential...
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Russia preparing emergency humanitarian aid for Afghanistan — envoy (TASS)

Russia’s Defense and Emergencies Ministries are preparing humanitarian aid that they will render to Afghanistan as emergency assistance soon, Special Russian Presidential Representative for...
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Chinese, Russian warships tackle Japanese close-in recon, ‘display confidence’ in 1st joint sea patrol (Global Times)

A Chinese-Russian naval flotilla tackled external challenges, including close-in reconnaissance by Japanese forces, during the fleets' first joint sea patrol over the past week. The...
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Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Prison-Torture Whistle-Blower (RFE RL)

Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a former prison inmate who has admitted to releasing graphic video evidence of hundreds of cases of...
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Kyrgyz President Rejects Idea Of New U.S. Base In Kyrgyzstan (RFE RL)

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has rejected the idea of hosting a U.S. military base in his country, saying such a move would place Kyrgyzstan...
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Russian-Led CSTO Stages More Counterterrorism Drills On Tajik-Afghan Border (RFE RL)

Members of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have completed another joint counterterrorism training exercise in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan. The exercise...
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Chinese-Russian task force sails around Japan (Mike Yeo, Defense News)

A joint Chinese-Russian naval armada has sailed around Japan following a joint exercise in the Sea of Japan, sailing through a narrow international waterway...
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NATO to boost air and missile defense investments to counter Russia (Joe Gould, Defense News)

NATO’s forthcoming plans to deter Russia includes “significant improvements to our air and missile defenses” as well as fifth-generation jets, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg...
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