Kimberly Marten

Russia’s Loss of Reputation and Status in the Middle East: Potential Consequences for Putin at Home and Abroad

Image credit/license Throughout 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin remained active in the Middle East, expanding trade relations with Arab countries and strengthening Moscow’s security relationship with Iran. He also partially…

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Where’s Wagner Now? One Year after the Mutiny

Image credit/license Following the June 2023 mutiny of Russia’s Wagner Group and the August death of its primary contractor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a suspicious plane crash, it seemed that the…

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President Putin’s Rationality and Escalation in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Prominent Western policy figures, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Canada’s United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae, and retired U.S. National Security Advisor General H. R. McMaster, have recently questioned whether…

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Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The French government has been taking a balanced and often supportive diplomatic and economic approach to Russia in recent years, so Moscow should logically be trying…

Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Yevgeny Prigozhin, the corrupt military contractor from St. Petersburg who funds the informal armed organization known as the Wagner Group, expanded his lucrative foreign adventures into…

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