Irrelevant Intrigues and Diminished Power Projection: Russia in Retreat from the Middle East

Ambitions rather than interests have shaped Russian policy in the Middle East in the last decade, and the overlapping crises in this turbulent region have indeed presented many useful opportunities…

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The Arctic as a Test for a “Stable and Predictable” Russia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Two events of major import for Russia’s foreign policymaking occurred in quick sequence in the middle of this pandemically perturbed year of 2021. On May 20,…

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Two Words That Shook Putin’s Regime

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last Wednesday (March 17) has been extraordinarily loud—and the bilateral consequences could…

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West’s Renewed Focus on Solidarity and Coordination Perturbs Kremlin

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The disastrous visit to Moscow of the European Union’s top diplomat, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, on February 4–6, followed in quick succession…

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Baev: Moscow is pretending to act as a key peace-promoter in Libya, but in fact is acting as a spoiler

(Brookings) The United States should retain a stake in the international management of the Libyan conflict for many reasons, and one of them is that Russia is deeply engaged. Moscow is…

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Navalny Has Set a Damning Dilemma for Putin’s Regime

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The decision of Russian democratic opposition leader Alexei Navalny to return to Moscow was announced on January 13 in a deliberately matter-of-fact way—and produced a full-blown political storm.…

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Year 2020 in Review: The Maturation of Russia’s Autocracy

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Russia’s post-Soviet counter-transition arrived at its logical conclusion in 2020: Starting from a fledgling democracy in the 1990s, the country shifted to an “enlightened authoritarianism” in the 2000s,…

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Russia Strives for an Oil and Gas Resurgence

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) As the global economy—animated by the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines—hopes for the first signs of recovery, expectations also rise in Russia for an accompanying surge in demand…

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Russians Contemplate Importance of US Elections for Russia

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) As the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the United States became clear, many Russians began to reflect on what the result might mean for Russia’s position…

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New Wave of Islamic Extremism Adds to Putin’s Troubles

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The series of terrorist attacks in France, in late October, attracted much attention in Russia, sharply dividing public opinion and leaving President Vladimir Putin in an awkward limbo.…

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