Tag: Russia

Afghanistan/Russia/China/Iran – How Russia, China, and Iran will shape Afghanistan’s future (Nilofar Sakhi, Atlantic Council)

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's deputy leader and negotiator, and other delegation members attend the Afghan peace conference in Moscow, Russia, on March...

USA/Russia – Biden e Putin hanno discusso di come contenere le guerre informatiche (Kevin Carboni, Wired Italia)

Joe Biden e Vladimir Putin a Ginevra (Foto: Peter Klaunzer/Getty Images) Stati Uniti e Russia si sono dichiarate disponibili ad avviare un percorso di consultazioni sulla sicurezza...

USA/Russia – Biden and Putin Project Optimism After Resolving Practically Nothing in Geneva (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

United States President Joseph Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, met in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, for their first summit since Biden...

USA/Russia – The Success of the Biden-Putin Summit Will Depend on Follow-Through (Thomas Graham, CFR)

What is the most significant takeaway from the summit? The meeting was a small step forward in injecting the stability and predictability that President Biden...

USA/Russia/Cybersecurity – What the Biden-Putin summit reveals about future of cyber attacks – and how to increase cybersecurity (Georges De Moura, Tal Goldstein, WEF)

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed cybersecurity at their summit in Geneva, Switzerland, on 16 June. This discussion elevated...

USA/Russia – Did Biden succeed with Putin? Check back in six months (Steven Pifer, Brookings)

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a short summit yesterday in Switzerland that both sides described as substantive, efficient, and...

Russia/USA – Russia’s Impact on US National Interests: 5 Primers (Russia Matters)

America today is grappling with a transition from its “unipolar moment” of the 1990s to renewed great-power competition with Russia and China. As U.S....

USA/Russia/Cyberspasce – US-Russian Contention in Cyberspace: Are Rules of the Road Necessary or Possible? (Lauren Zabierek, Christie Lawrence, Miles Neumann and Pavel Sharikov, Russia...

Experts have grown increasingly concerned about cyber operations against critical infrastructure, including nuclear facilities. Photo: Sergey Pyatakov, RIA Novosti. Introduction By Natasha Yefimova-Trilling and Simon Saradzhyan In...

Turkey/Russia – New Turkish-Built Dry Dock Will Not Solve Russia’s Deeper Shipbuilding Problems (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

The problems plaguing Russia’s shipbuilding sector, both military and civilian, run so deep and widespread that even Moscow’s decision to award a contract to...

Belarus/Russia – The Hijacking of the Ryanair Flight Over Belarus: A Russian ‘Reflexive Control’ Operation? (Arseny Sivitsky, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Belarusian authorities’ forced landing of the Vilnius-bound Ryanair Flight 4978 at Minsk airport, on May 23, and the arrest of the opposition NEXTA Telegram channel...

Russia – Russia’s energy sector: Accumulating effects of Western sanctions (Maria Shagina, The Interpreter)

Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and incursion into eastern Ukraine, the West imposed targeted sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, the most revenue-generating...

USA/Russia – Biden seeks ‘predictable, stable’ Russia relations in Putin meet (Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera)

United States President Joe Biden will cap off his European tour – his first foreign trip – with a meeting in Geneva on Wednesday...

USA/Russia – Biden suggests ‘autocrat’ Putin’s Russia might be weaker than it seems (Euractiv)

US President Joe Biden at the leaders welcome during the G7 Summit in Carbis Bay, Britain, 11 June 2021. Britain hosted the Group of...

USA/Russia – US sanctions on Russia’s sovereign debt formally come into force on Monday (TASS)

The US sanctions on a number of transactions with Russia’s sovereign debt, announced back in April, formally come into force on Monday. It concerns the...

USA/Russia – Biden to notify NATO allies about his coming agenda with Putin (TASS)

US President Joe Biden will notify his colleagues from NATO member countries about the agenda of his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

USA/Russia – US wants to cooperate with Russia on strategic stability, Syria and Arctic – White House (TASS)

The United States believes it could work with Russia on strategic stability, humanitarian access in Syria, issues related to Arctic, and a number of...