Tag: Russia

Russia/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan/Afghanistan/Defense – Russia redeploys attack aircraft from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan for drills on Afghan border (TASS)

TASS writes: A wing of Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft has redeployed from Russia’s Kant integrated airbase in Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan for the joint...

Russia/Georgia/Defense – Kremlin raises red flag about ‘any covert steps against Russia’ during drills in Georgia (TASS)

TASS writes: NATO is not hiding who is the alliance’s key adversary and it’s important that the scenario of the Agile Spirit 2021 drills that...

Russia/China/Defense – Russian, Chinese troops to hold joint drills in China’s north in August (TASS)

TASS writes: The Russian and Chinese troops will hold joint drills in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northern China in the first half...

Russia/Defense – Russian Defense Ministry signs contract on first 10 S-500 air defense systems — source (TASS)

TASS writes: Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with Almaz-Antey on shipment of the first batch of the S-500 Prometey air defense systems,...

Russia/Google – Moscow court fines Google over $40,000 for refusing to localize users’ data in Russia (TASS)

TASS writes: The Magistrates' Court in Moscow has fined Google 3 mln rubles ($40,975) for refusing to localize its users’ data in Russia, a...

Russia/Afghanistan – Russia’s regional clout to strengthen further amid post Afghan exit turmoil, says envoy (TASS)

TASS writes: Moscow’s powerful regional clout amid the current situation in Afghanistan will expand even further following the pullout of US troops from that...

Russia/Syria – Russian-Syrian intergovernmental commission to meet in August in Syria, Ambassador says (TASS)

TASS writes: A meeting of the Russian-Syrian Intergovernmental Commission on trade-economic and scientific, and technical cooperation is scheduled for August in Syria, the republic’s ambassador...

Russia/USA/Afghanistan – Russian-US dialogue on Afghanistan developing positively, senior diplomat says (TASS)

TASS writes: Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov noted that Russian and US interests in the Afghan settlement generally coincided go to TASS:...

Russia/USA/Europe – Countering Putin’s Grand Strategy (Project-Syndicate)

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, HEATHER ASHBY write: Russia is playing a global game, and the US and Europe are so busy protecting their corners that they are...

Russia/Defense – Russia is producing two new Doomsday planes, says government news agency (Defense News)

Alexander Bratersky writes: Russia is reportedly working on two so-called Doomsday planes to carry the country’s senior military and political leadership in case of...

Russia/Defense – Putin Expresses Support for Cossack Battalion in Russian National Guard (The Jamestown Foundation)

Richard Arnold writes: In a further sign of the rising importance of Cossack neo-imperial structures in Russia’s current political system, apparently President Vladimir Putin...

Russia/Defense – Naval Parade Plays Into Putin’s Dangerous Vanity (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev writes: Combat ships lined the Neva River in St. Petersburg and crowded the harbor of the nearby Kronstadt naval base last...

Russia – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s website blocked by regulator before election (Euractiv, Reuters)

Euractiv writes: Russian authorities blocked access to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s website on Monday (26 July) in the run-up to a parliamentary election,...

Afghanistan/China/Russia/SCO – China, Russia have aligned interests to facilitate SCO role for Afghanistan (Global Times)

Danil Bochkov writes: President Joe Biden's decision on the swift withdrawal of American military forces from Afghanistan by August 31 has had a very...

Podcast: A Closer Look at Russia’s New National Security Strategy (Carnegie Moscow Center)

Carnegie Moscow Center writes: How does the latest version of Russia’s National Security Strategy differ from the last one, released in 2015? Does the...

Is There a New Status Quo in Russia-West Relations? (Carnegie Moscow Center)

Liana Fix writes: The Biden-Putin summit has elicited hopes for a new status quo in relations between Russia and the West, marked by guardrails...