Tag: Russia

On Russia’s Obstructionism at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE Yesterday, the premier human rights conference of the Europe-Eurasia region should have opened in Warsaw, Poland.  Unfortunately, the...
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Russian Gas, German Elections, and US sanctions (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two high-resonance processes have been simultaneously unfolding in Europe in the last few weeks: the sharp increase in the prices on natural gas (see EDM,...
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New US Navy task group taps destroyers to focus on countering Russian undersea threat (Diana Stancy Correll and Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Navy is organizing East Coast destroyers to better protect the homeland from Russian threats — specifically those undersea — as part of a...
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China and Russia step in to assist Mongolia with fuel shortage (Global Times)

Photo: CCTV China and Russia are exporting gasoline to Mongolia on an emergency basis to assist the country to cope an energy supply shortage. China and...
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Sideswiped: Apple, Google, and the Kremlin’s Make-Believe Election (Steven Feldstein, Andrew S. Weiss, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Western tech firms were sucked into the vortex of the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s organization in the run-up to last week’s predictably dull Duma elections....
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Zelenskyy slams UN inaction over Putin’s Ukraine war (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the UN General Assembly in New York. September 22, 2021. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his September 22 address...
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Nothing threatens Putin’s regime more than Ukraine (Daniel N. Hoffman, The Washington Times)

During a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House earlier this month, President Biden “firmly committed” to supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity...
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Azerbaijan Increasingly Critical of Russia’s Peacekeeping Mission in Karabakh (Vasif Huseynov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 6–10, Azerbaijan and Turkey held joint special forces exercises in the Lachin region of Azerbaijan, marking the first time Turkish troops carried...
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Russia’s Military Boosts Electromagnetic Spectrum Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

As a result of major reforms and continued state investment in modernization over more than a decade, the Russian Armed Forces have significantly advanced...
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Demographic Decline and Urbanization Threaten Moscow’s Control over Borderlands (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Demography is not destiny except over the long term, it is often said. But for Russia, that time may be now. Accelerating population decline,...
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Amidst Zapad 2021 Exercise, Russia and Belarus Establish Joint Air-Defense and Air Force Training and Combat Center (Arseny Sivitsky, The Jamestown Foundation)

While Russia and Belarus made final preparations to kick off their quadrennial joint strategic-operational exercise Zapad 2021, the two countries’ air-defense and air force...
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Fake Elections and Russia’s Belligerent Foreign Policy (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The outcome of Russia’s crudely manipulated parliamentary elections on September 17–19 was never in question: the Kremlin executed extra-rigid control over the campaigning and...
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Russian envoy terms SCO membership as first foreign policy achievement by Raisi (IRNA)

Russian Ambassador to Tehran Levan Dzhagaryan said on Saturday that the beginning of Iran’s permanent membership process was the first foreign policy achievement of...
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Iran, Russia emphasize banking ties (IRNA)

Iran and Russia emphasized expanding banking cooperation in the ninth meeting of joint financial and banking cooperation working group held in Iran’s Embassy in...
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Roscosmos to deploy GLONASS monitoring stations in five countries (TASS)

The Precision Instrument-Making Systems research and production corporation (part of the state space corporation Roscosmos) plans to place non-request measuring stations of the SM-Glonass...
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Russia, Kazakhstan sign agreement on construction of Soyuz-5 launch complex — Roscosmos (TASS)

Roscosmos Center for Operation of ground-based space infrastructure and Basis Construction (Kazakhstan) signed an agreement for construction of a launch complex for the Soyuz-5...
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