Tag: Russia

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NATO agrees new plan to deter Russian attacks (Al Jazeera)

NATO defence ministers have agreed upon a new master plan to defend against any potential Russian attack on multiple fronts, reaffirming the alliance’s core...

Putin’s Labyrinth: Career Stagnation in Russia’s Corridors of Power (Andrey Pertsev, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Enough time has passed since September’s State Duma elections to be able to say with confidence that unlike previous elections, they have not led...

How the Arms Control Approach Could Help Russia Tackle Climate Change (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The energy crunch in Europe; the knee-jerk accusations of Russia having engineered it to win early approval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline;...

The Impact of Sino-American Rivalry on Russia’s Relations With China (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The world’s three foremost geopolitical players and leading military powers of the day—the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China, and the...

Why Russia Officially Broke With NATO (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Russia’s decision to end diplomatic engagement with NATO should have been a nonevent. Responding to NATO’s decision to expel a number of Russian military officers serving at Moscow’s mission...

The Kremlin Is Pleased After Kozak-Nuland Talks on Ukraine (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make Under Secretary Victoria Nuland’s visit possible....

The Kremlin Is Pleased After Kozak-Nuland Talks on Ukraine (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas. On October 13,...

The Commercial Space Sector and Russia’s Space Strategy (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Even as the commercial space sector grows quickly in the United States as well as in Europe, China, Japan, India and other countries, Russia...

Russian Military Enhances UACV Strike Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

The leadership of Russia’s Armed Forces has used the introduction and diversification of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as a means to boost target acquisition...

‘Moscow format’ talks highlight China-Russia coordination on Afghan issue, conspicuous US absence (Liu Caiyu, Global Times)

The "Moscow format" talks on Wednesday highlighted the prominent role of China-Russia coordination on the Afghan crisis when the US and some Western countries...

Russia-Belarus ‘Union Shield’ drills to become key event of 2023 — defense chief (TASS)

"We summed up and approved the results of the joint work of our defense ministries in 2019-2021 and mapped out measures for military security...