Tag: Russia

Russia/Green Agenda – Russia’s ‘Green’ Agenda in Action: Economic Tools and Political Motivations (Part One) (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

On April 19, during the presentation of a report compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Secretary General António Guterres stated that...

Russia/Caspian Sea – Russia’s Caspian Flotilla No Longer Only Force That Matters There (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Although Russia’s Caspian Flotilla remains the dominant naval force on the Caspian, it is not the only one that matters anymore. All four other...

Russia – Russia Bungles Pre-Planned Intercept of UK Navy Vessel off Coast of Crimea (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

A shooting skirmish or a deadly collision between Russian and Western warships or aircraft in the Black Sea would almost certainly cause a serious...

NATO/Turkey/Russia – Can Turkish Drones Bolster NATO’s Eastern Flank Against Russia? (Can Kasapoglu, The Jamestown Foundation)

Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are becoming popular strategic assets and affordable military modernization solutions on the international arms market. Can Turkish Drones Bolster NATO’s...

Serbia/Russia – Russia and Serbia: From Historical Memory to Future Relations (Oleg Barabanov, The Jamestown Foundation)

The phrase “Be realistic, demand the impossible” is well-known. Russia and Serbia now face approximately the same task in order to preserve their partnership in the future, writes Valdai...

Serbia/Russia – Serbia and Russia: Why Do We Know So Little About Each Other? (Boyan Bilbia, Valdai Discussion Club)

In May of this year, the inimitable Djordje Marjanović, a great performer of Serbian and Yugoslav, Soviet and Russian pop music, died. The coronavirus had cost...

Russia/Roscosmos/USA – Roscosmos Suffers From Russia’s Confrontation With the US (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, confirmed during parliamentary hearings earlier this month that Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s...

Russia/Arctic Council – Moscow Ready to Exploit Increasingly Independent-Minded Greenland against West (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Russian government is already signaling that it plans an activist approach during its three-year term as chair of the Arctic Council (see EDM, April...

Iran/Russia/Turkey – Iran, Russia, and Turkey: A Eurasionist Model of Foreign Relations (Emil Avdaliani, BESA Center)

Trilateral Iran-Russia-Turkey Summit in Tehran, September 2018, image by Russian Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Iran, Turkey, and Russia are building...

USA/Russia – Biden and Putin summit: What it means for future of nuclear nonproliferation (Pulkit Mohan, ORF)

The recent meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva comes as a welcome change to the extremely tense relationship between...

Russia/USA/China/India – Need to Talk: The Necessity of a Four-Way Dialogue Between Russia, the United States, China and India (Andrey Sushentsov, Valdai Discussion Club)

Global politics continues to be highly competitive. Fortunately for us, this competition is shifting from the military arena to one of ​​economic rivalry and...

Russia/Serbia/Balkans – Russia, Serbia and the Balkans: Prospects (Vladimir Kršljanin, Valdai Discussion Club)

Cooperation as the main paradigm of the new world, in which Russia and China are leading with their spiritual and moral values, undoubtedly awaits triumph, since it has...

USA/Russia – Putin’s Satisfaction With Geneva Summit Will Not Last (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Expectations regarding the summit between Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva last Wednesday (June 16) were set quite low (see EDM, June 14, 17),...

USA/Russia – Takeaways from the Biden-Putin Summit (Himani Pant, VIF)

The downturn in the trajectory of US-Russia ties has become more pronounced since 2014. The differences over Ukraine, Middle East and others have been...

USA/Russia/Ukraine – Dopo l’incontro Biden-Putin, a che punto è l’Ucraina? (Dario Quintavalle, Formiche)

Il vertice ginevrino tra i presidenti Joe Biden e Vladimir Putin può essere riguardato come un successo o un fallimento, a seconda delle aspettative, modeste o eccessive, che...

USA/Russia – Biden meets Putin: America, Russia, and the return of diplomacy (Kadri Liik, ECFR)

Joe Biden is the fifth American president to hold a bilateral summit with Vladimir Putin. But he is likely the first post-cold war US...