Tag: Russia

Ukraine/Russia/France/Germany – Macron, Merkel, Zelenskyy Meet to Defuse Russian War Scare (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor On April 16, in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in person and with German Chancellor Angela...

USA/Russia – Putin’s Power Play Foiled by Biden’s Punch-and-Placate Tactics (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev An extraordinary sequence of oscillating hostile and conciliatory steps between the United States and Russia was initiated by President Joseph Biden’s phone...

USA/Russia – Sticks and carrots in Biden’s Russia strategy (The Interpreter)

Matthew Sussex Washington deserves two cheers for its early moves againstMoscow. But the approach remains fundamentally reactive. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/sticks-and-carrots-biden-s-russia-strategy

Germany/Russia/Bosnia – Germany, Russia and the Gambit for Bosnia (RUSI)

Harun Karčić Berlin wants to replace the country’s High Representative with its own candidate, but Russia has plans of its own. https://rusi.org/commentary/germany-russia-and-gambit-bosnia

Russia – The Imperfect Equilibrium of Russian Civil–Military Relations (RUSI)

Kirill Shamiev Although the Russian military tends to be apolitical and obedient to civilian authorities, its political role is complicated in the increasingly authoritarian regime...

USA/NATO/Russia/Ukraine – US commander warns NATO is ready to respond to aggression (Defense News)

Joe Gould Amid Russia’s massive troop buildup along its border with Ukraine, the top U.S. commander in Europe warned Thursday that NATO was prepared to...

Russia/Ukraine – A pipeline deal could help end Putin’s Ukraine war (Atlantic Council)

Colin Cleary The Russian-led conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany are...

Russia/Ukraine – Russian passports: Putin’s secret weapon in the war against Ukraine (Atlantic Council)

Peter Dickinson The international community has expressed growing alarm in recent weeks over a major Russian military build-up along the Ukrainian border. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russian-passports-putins-secret-weapon-in-the-war-against-ukraine/

Russia/Ukraine – What if Russia invades Ukraine (again)? Consider these options for sanctions escalation (Atlantic Council)

Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried Vladimir Putin is again massing troops near Ukraine’s borders, Kremlin-controlled media has ramped up threats of war, and the United States and key European...

Russia’s Defense-Industrial Complex at a Crossroads: Aura Versus Reality (Part One) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin On March 31, during a virtual meeting with the Kremlin, the president of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR), Mikhail...

Russia/Ukraine – Moscow Moving 15 Warships From Caspian Sea to Waters off Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today (April 13) that Moscow is sending 15 naval vessels from its Caspian Flotilla to waters off Ukraine...

Russia/Baltic Basin – Russia Builds up Its Export Potential in Baltic Basin (The Jamestown Foundation)

Rauf Mammadov Russian natural gas giant Gazprom signed a preliminary agreement with global engineering company Linde to deliver engineering and procurement services for the Ust-Luga...

Russia/Ukraine – Penned in on Multiple International Issues, Putin Strives to Show Resolve on Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev Putting military pressure on Ukraine could have seemed to the Russian leadership to be the most practical way to assert Moscow’s central...

China/Russia – China Learning From Russia’s “Emerging Great Power” Global Media Tactics (The Jamestown Foundation)

Elizabeth Chen Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers observed that China has employed newly assertive tactics—including spreading widespread Russian-style disinformation—which suggested that “Beijing...

Russia – Russia to send three missions to Moon by 2026 (TASS)

The Moon has now become a place for the space race (lunar race 2), President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeyev said https://tass.com/science/1277263

Russia – Kremlin does not rule out Russia’s disconnection from Western payment systems (TASS)

In one form or another, restrictions against Russia are used by a number of states that pursue the goal of containing Russia, the Kremlin...