Tag: Russia

(Russia/Ukraine) Russia Escalates Its Proxy War in Eastern Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer The ceasefire on the line of control in the breakaway Donbas region of eastern Ukraine is unraveling. In July 2020, both sides—the Ukrainian...
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(Russia/Arctic) Russia’s Digitalization of the Arctic Region: Plans and Achievements (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin The “Strategy for the Development of the Russian Arctic Zone and Provision of National Security Through 2035” (Pravo.gov.ru, October 26, 2020) highlights, among...
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(Russia) Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities as a Threat to GPS (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott According to Russian military media, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has expressed growing confidence in the Armed Forces’ electronic warfare (EW) capabilities. https://jamestown.org/program/russias-electronic-warfare-capabilities-as-a-threat-to-gps/
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(USA/Russia/Middle East) How Should Joe Biden Respond to Russia’s Middle East Strategy? (The Washington Institute)

Anna Borshchevskaya Washington has prioritized counterterrorism for years and is only now shifting to great-power competition, but Moscow has never lost sight of geopolitics, and...
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(Russia) Do fresh Russia sanctions signal new ‘defence of democracy’ geopolitics? (The Strategist)

Anastasia Kapetas After weeks of considering how to respond to the poisoning and arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the EU and US announced coordinated...
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(Russia) Russia pilots its first 5G network (Global Times)

Russia's leading telecom operator MTS announced on Friday that it has launched the country's first 5G network for trial use in Moscow. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1217494.shtml
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(Russia/Ukraine) Crimean Tatar Leader Barred From Entering Crimea Until 2034 (RFE/RL)

Russia has barred long-time Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev from entering Crimea for the next 13 years. https://www.rferl.org/a/crimean-tatar-leader-barred-from-entering-crimea/31135509.html
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(Russia) Participant In Navalny Rallies Gets Three Years In Russian Prison (RFE/RL)

A court in the Russian city of Vladimir has sentenced a man to three years in prison on a criminal charge of attacking a...
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(Russia) Moscow Angered but Not Deterred by Newest Round of Western Sanctions (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer After repeatedly and unsuccessfully pleading with the Kremlin to release imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the European Union and the United States, in...
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(Russia/Iran) Including Iran in Moscow-Led Economic Group Will Upend Former Soviet Space (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Reports claiming that Russia will, within a few weeks, welcome Iran as a new member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) may be...
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(Russia) A rebuttal to Russia’s narrative about the West, grounded in history (Atlantic Council)

Ian Brzezinski, Daniel Fried, Alexander Vershbow Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West is yet again engaged in an increasingly tense confrontation with...
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(Russia/Iran) Russia and Iran Sign an Intelligence Pact (BESA Center)

Ardavan Khoshnood The Islamic Republic of Iran has experienced a number of serious counterintelligence failures over the years. Last month, Iran and Russia, a close...
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(USA) CISA emergency directive urges to fix Microsoft Exchange zero-days (Security Affairs)

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive related to recently fixed Microsoft Exchange zero-days. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115278/security/cisa-microsoft-exchange-zero-days.html
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(Russia) Potemkin Putin (Project-Syndicate)

ANDERS ÅSLUND Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has proven adept at weathering storms of popular unrest, there are good reasons to think that this year's...
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(Russia) Moscow Prioritizes the Development of Hypersonic Weapons (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott Since Moscow’s entry into the civil war in Syria in September 2015, its experimentation with high-precision cruise missile strikes has served to boost...
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(USA/Russia) Three big takeaways from Biden’s first Russia sanctions (Atlantic Council)

Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried After weeks of speculation, we now know how the Biden administration will sanction Russia in direct response to the poisoning, sentencing, and detention of...
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