Tag: Russia

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...

Russia’s History Wars: Why Is Stalin’s Popularity On the Rise? (Carnegie Moscow Center)

Andrei Kolesnikov writes: Stalin stands in for the lack of modern heroes, and overshadows all the most important historical events of the twentieth century,...

Kharkiv State Aviation Production Enterprise Enters Freefall (Jamestown Foundation)

John C.K. Daly writes for Jamestown Foundation: The sudden collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), in December 1991, and fracturing into...

Checkmate: Russia’s So-Called Fifth-Generation Stealth Fighter (Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel E. Felgenhauer writes for Jamestown Foundation: Despite another wave of deadly COVID-19 coronavirus infections ravaging Moscow and spreading out into the provinces, the...

Nord Stream 2. Merkel ha sacrificato il dialogo Ue-Russia? (Formiche)

Gabriele Carrer writes for Formiche: Per essere un progetto privato, la Germania ha investito molto capitale politico nel Nord Stream 2. Tanto che il...

(USA/Russia) Deputy Secretary Sherman to Lead U.S. Delegation in Strategic Stability Dialogue with Russian Federation (US Department of State)

MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman will travel to Geneva, Switzerland to lead the U.S. delegation’s participation in a...

(Russia) A Fuse for the Future (Valdai Discussion Club)

Fyodor Lukyanov writes for The Jamestown Foundation: Vladimir Putin’s article “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” evoked a variety of responses, which is quite understandable. The author...

(Russia) The Putin Doctrine? How the Ideas of a 20th Century Thinker Ostracized by the Soviets Help to Shape Russia’s New Foreign Policy (Valdai...

Piotr Dutkiewicz writes for Valdai Discussion Club: In an article ostensibly about Ukraine, published last week, the Russian president expanded Gumilev’s initial argument, outlining...

(Ukraine/Russia) Ukraine’s Chance for Rational Behaviour (Valdai Discussion Club)

Timofei Bordachev writes for Valdai Discussion Club: From the point of view of international politics, the most important thing in the recently-published article by the President of Russia on the...

(France/Sahel/Russia) France’s exit from the Sahel war offers Russia an opportunity to move in (Euractiv, Syndication Bureau)

Faisal Al Yafai  writes: To surprisingly little fanfare, France has announced it is ending Operation Barkhane, its almost decade-long military intervention in the Sahel....

(Argentina/Russia) Argentina complains to Russia over vaccine delivery (Euractiv)

Euractiv writes: Argentina has complained to Russia about delays in delivering second doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a letter warning of...

(Russia/Japan/Kuril Islands) The Kuril Islands roadblock on a Russia–Japan peace treaty (East Asia Forum)

Andrey Gubin, Far Eastern Federal University, writes for East Asia Forum: During a press briefing at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum on 5...