Tag: Russia

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Zapad-2021 exercise shows Union State’s ability to defend itself — Belarusian minister (TASS)

During the Zapad-2021 military exercise, Russia and Belarus demonstrated their ability to protect sovereignty and independence of the Union State, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor...

Akkuyu NPP construction never stopped for an hour despite pandemic — Rosatom chief (TASS)

The construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey never stopped during the pandemic period, not even for an hour, Rosatom Direcotr General...

US Department of State regrets Russia’s closure of OSCE border observer mission (TASS)

The US Department of State regrets Russia’s decision not to extend the mandate of an OSCE border observer mission at Russia’s Gukovo and Donetsk...

Telegram messenger restricts access to bots associated with campaigning — founder (TASS)

The Telegram messenger will limit access to all bots associated with electoral campaigning starting from 00:00 Moscow time on Saturday, Telegram founder Pavel Durov...

Work of Russian online voting systems stable despite cyberattacks — Rostelecom (TASS)

Hacker attacks targeting Russia’s online vote systems have had no impact on electoral process, said Yuri Satirov, Deputy General Director of Rostelecom department for...

Planned Closure of the OSCE Border Observer Mission (US Department of State)

NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON The United States deeply regrets the decision by the Russian Federation to block consensus to extend the OSCE Border Observer Mission...

How the Duma Elections Could Decide United Russia’s Fate (Tatiana Stanovaya, Carnegie Moscow Center)

A glimpse inside the black hole of Russia’s corridors of power reveals that the fault line within the regime is getting deeper, and the...

What would Norway be without oil? And Ukraine without Russian gas? (Trine Villumsen Berling, Izabela Surwillo, Sandra Sørensen, DIIS

Energy security used to be about uninterrupted flows of affordable and available resources. This article argues that it is much more than that. By...

Moscow Promotes Naval Cooperation Among Caspian States to Exclude Others (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

When the five Caspian littoral states signed a maritime delimitation pact in August 2018, they additionally agreed not to allow any outside power to...

Zapad 2021 Ends Peacefully but East-West Tensions Still Simmer (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

The massive, Russo-Belarusian Zapad 2021 operational-strategic war games have ended. The scenario of this year’s iteration of Zapad (September 10–16) envisaged an attack on...

Russia votes: State Duma elections 2021 (Nivedita Kapoor, ORF)

As Russia prepares to vote for the State Duma elections from September 17-19, the ruling United Russia (UR) party is expected to retain control...