Tag: Russia

Triple Threat? Russia Halts Coal Exports To Ukraine, Cancels Power Auction Amid Gas Crisis (Yevhen Solonyna, Todd Prince, RFE RL)

For months, critics have accused Russia of withholding additional natural-gas shipments to Europe via Ukraine in order to pressure Brussels to fast-track its new...

Unfortunate but Inevitable: Moldova’s Gas Supply Agreement With the Kremlin and Gazprom (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 29, Moscow and Chisinau agreed on a conditional resumption of Russian natural gas supplies to Moldova as of October 30. The Russian...

Russia’s Armed Forces Rehearse the Defense of Crimea (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

At the end of October, the Russian Armed Forces staged a military exercise in Crimea to rehearse the defense of the occupied peninsula. The...

Building ‘stable, predicable’ US-Russia ties: dream or reality? (ORF)

On November 2, the Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and CIA Director William Burns met to discuss various issues related to US-Russia ties....

Russian LNG Shipments to India: Strategic Implications and Long-Term Prospects (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late September, Russia’s first Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU)—specifically designed for emergency transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) via the Baltic Sea to...

Putin’s Ukraine War: Russian MP recalls efforts to push civil war myth (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

“Russia’s foreign minister accused Ukrainian leaders on Monday of trying to drag Moscow into the conflict in eastern Ukraine, following an escalation in fighting...

Moscow, Kyiv deny reports of Russian military buildup near border (Al Jazeera)

Russia has denied media reports that it is massing military units near its border with Ukraine. Tuesday’s rebuttal came after the United States-based Politico news...

Russian nuclear weapons stand out in defense budget request (Alexander Bratersky, Defense News)

Russia plans to gradually increase spending on its nuclear weapons capabilities over the next three years, according to the draft of the national budget...

Is Russia finally getting serious on climate change? (Ian Hill)

At last month’s annual Valdai forum in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said it was “impossible” to deny climate change when disasters had become “almost a...

Spurning Pair of International Summits, Putin Denounces Globalization (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The back-to-back international summits of the G20 in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow at the end of October brought together hosts of dignitaries and...

Russian Military Thought on the Changing Character of War: Harnessing Technology in the Information Age (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia’s General Staff has long-established interests in the analysis of developments in the means and methods of military conflict. In the early Soviet era,...

Russian Gazprom Ready to Pounce on Moldovan Prey (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Four rounds of Russian-Moldovan negotiations in October over natural gas supplies have revealed the two sides’ conflicting positions (see Part One). The Russians propose signing a...

Russian Gazprom Ready to Pounce on Moldovan Prey (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Using Gazprom as its political instrument, the Kremlin threatens to halt natural gas supplies to Moldova temporarily on November 1, and indefinitely from December...

Internal Fruit of Russian Propaganda: The Political Repercussions of COVID-19 in Russia (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

October 2021 marked the most dramatic month-over-month increase in reported COVID-19 cases in the Russian Federation since the pandemic began, with up to 40,000...

US to face backlash in forming ‘united front’ with new cyber bureau to suppress China, Russia: expert (Xu Keyue, Global Times)

The US is stepping up its pace in grabbing its discourse power globally on cyberspace and other emerging technologies with its move to form...

Russia ‘weaponising’ gas supply in Moldova dispute, EU says (Al Jazeera)

The European Union’s top diplomat has accused Russia of using natural gas to bully neighbouring Moldova in remarks that are likely to worsen simmering tensions between...