Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

USA/Russia – The Dimming Prospects of US-Russian Deescalation (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, met for the first time in person on...

Russia/Belarus – Lukashenka Agrees to Joint Air Patrols and Training Centers With Russia, but Still Opposes Military Base (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Arseny Sivitsky In addition to restarting joint air-patrol missions beginning this summer (see Part One), Belarus and Russia have agreed to establish three shared combat-training centers...

Russia/Belarus – Lukashenka Agrees to Joint Air Patrols and Training Centers With Russia, but Still Opposes Military Base (Part One) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Arseny Sivitsky The air forces of Russia and Belarus will begin joint air-defense missions out of one of the Belarusian airfields this summer. In reaching...

Russia/Crimea – Moscow to Drill for Fresh Water Under Azov Sea, Not to Help Crimea But to Back Its Claims (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Moscow has announced it will begin drilling for fresh water under the Sea of Azov this summer to address growing water shortages in...

Ukraine – New Reservists Law in Ukraine: A Forced Step Forward (The Jamestown Foundation)

Yuri Lapaiev On March 30, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) adopted a new law on reservists, #1357-IX, which modifies existing legislation (Rada.gov.ua, March 30)....

USA/Ukraine – Blinken’s Debut in Ukraine: A Case for Managing Expectations (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his closest entourage sometimes raise public expectations of what the United States can deliver to Ukraine to unrealistically high...

Russia/USA – Russia Recoils From Possibility of Stable Relationship With US (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev The traditional May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow was not a grand affair this year, unlike the one originally planned for...

Belarus – Belarusian State-Run TV Scores Propaganda Victories (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe In his April 29 interview to Euronews, Belarus’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei had this to say about the crackdown on the protest movement that...

Chechnya/Ingushetia – Chechen Officials and Ingush Activists Agree to Meet to Discuss Border Issues (The Jamestown Foundation)

Valery Dzutsati Chechen officials and Ingush activists reached an agreement to hold negotiations on the contentious administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. https://jamestown.org/program/chechen-officials-and-ingush-activists-agree-to-meet-to-discuss-border-issues/

Russian UAV Technology and Loitering Munitions (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott During the ongoing modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces, increasing attention has turned to developing and exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned combat...

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

Sergey Sukhankin President Vladimir Putin’s remarks about possibly nationalizing the Russian defense industry (DI) (Interfax, March 31) reinvigorated a debate on measures to optimize this...

Making Sense of the ‘Semenchenko’s PMC’ Affair (The Jamestown Foundation)

Alla Hurska On March 24, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced it had exposed and impeded the activity of two illegal private military companies...

Russia/Ukraine – Ukrainians Fear Moscow May Use Their Co-Ethnics in Russia in Provocation to Restart War (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble A recent wave of arrests of ethnic Ukrainians across the Russian Federation for supposedly organizing extremist groups and planning terrorist attacks has sparked...

Russia/Crimea – Role of Airborne Troops in Russia’s Military Buildup in Crimea (The Jamestown Foundation)

At the end of each winter training cycle, the Russian Armed Forces typically hold extensive readiness checks in the month of April. So unsurprisingly,...

Ukraine/Russia – One-on-One With Putin: A Reckless Adventure for Zelenskyy (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

“We should not let Mr. Zelenskyy and his team off the hook, but let them twist there,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently...

Russia – Putin Pauses, but Russia’s Propensity for Trouble-Making Persists (The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apparent plan to emerge from his extended self-isolation with new energy did not quite work out as expected, and he...