Tag: Russia

Russia’s Armed Forces Enhance UAV Strike Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

The joint Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2021 combined strategic exercise (sovmestnoe strategicheskoe uchenie), which lasted from September 10 to 16, witnessed numerous tests and experiments involving Russia’s...

Joint Statement on the Outcomes of the U.S. – Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue in Geneva on September 30 (US Department of State)

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Russian Federation at the conclusion...

Should Russia Be Worried by the New AUKUS Alliance? (Andrey Kortunov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The establishment of a new trilateral military and political alliance consisting of the United States, Australia, and the UK (AUKUS) and the corollary rupture...

Disappointed by the US, Turkey cautiously looks to Russia (Resul Serdar Atas, Al Jazeera)

After US President Joe Biden refused to grant a one-on-one meeting with his Turkish counterpart on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),...

Radical Sanctions on Belarus Will Not Push Minsk Into Moscow’s Arms, Russian Experts Argue (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Angered by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive moves and desirous of being on the right side of history, Western governments have imposed increasingly tough sanctions on...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...