Tag: Russia

Russia/Iran – Is Russia Going to Provide Iran a Spy Satellite and What Are the Implications? (Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA)

The Noor-1 satellite, launched atop an Islamic Revolutionary Guard rocket in April 2020. “A tumbling webcam.” (Tehran Times) According to a June 11, 2021, report in the Washington...

Afghanistan/Russia/USA – The Russian perspective on the Afghanistan situation post US withdrawal (Georgi Asatryan, ORF)

Afghanistan is not yet destined to become like Switzerland, and full-fledged peace in this state will not be a reality in the foreseeable future....

Russia – Russia and Its Neighbors, Thirty Years after the Fall (William Hill, Valdai Discussion Club)

1991 was a remarkable year.  The map of Europe was re-drawn, one of the two major protagonists in the Cold War disappeared, and the...

USA/Russia – Russia and the United States Must Cooperate to Achieve Their Own National Interests (Valdai Discussion Club)

On June 16, at 6:30 PM Moscow time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club conference hall will host a discussion dedicated to the summit meeting of...

USA/Russia – Russia and the US: The ‘Red Lines’ Summit (Jonathan Eyal, RUSI)

After a week of hugs and back-patting from the US’s closest allies in the G7, NATO and the EU, US President Joe Biden has...

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...