Military Force: A Driver Aggravating Russia’s Decline
(EDM) Looking into the remaining years of the 2010s, it is only too obvious that decline is set to be the dominant trend in Russia, and it is easy to…
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Russia’s ‘Pivot’ to China Is Reduced to High-Level Bonhomie
(EDM) Expectations regarding President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing on Saturday (June 25) had been rather subdued, and the modest results were mostly immaterial. Last year, the two leaders grandiosely…
The Futility of Dialogue With Putin
(EDM) The need to keep the channels of dialogue open with an unpredictable Russia is taken as an absolute imperative by many Western politicians. But they are often surprised when this…
Putin Commits to Countering New Strategic ‘Threat’ to Russia
(EDM) The ceremony of opening the United States’ missile defense base in Deveselu, Romania, last week (Thursday, May 12), was greeted by a barrage of condemnation and criticism from Russian…
Virtual Militarism Grows Into Real Peril for Russia
(EDM) Tanks rumbled through Moscow over the past week before rolling across Red Square today (May 9) in the traditional, extravagant military parade marking Victory Day. Unlike in 2015 (which marked…
Russia Seeks to Reenergize Its Pivot to the East
(EDM) Over the past several years, whenever Moscow entered into a difficult encounter on the Western “front,” it has typically tried to show interest in expanding ties in the Asia-Pacific. In…
Russia’s Aggressive-Repressive Policies Bring No Long-Term Gains
(EDM) Claims of “stability” and “confidence” shaped President Vladimir Putin’s answers to the carefully selected questions posed during his annual 220-minute-long live TV call-in program, which aired on April 14.…
Russian futures: horizon 2025
(EUISS Report) Predicting Russia’s future is a perilous exercise. Many, indeed perhaps most, of those who have ventured to make such predictions in the past have erred in one way or…
Newly-Formed National Guard Cannot Dispel Putin’s Multiple Insecurities
(EDM) The recent release of the “Panama Papers,” which revealed notorious cases of hidden money flows tied to the global elite, continues to cause a political stir across the world. But…
Nuclear Security and Arms Control Are Non-Issues for Russia
(EDM) Russia’s absence from the nuclear summit in Washington, DC, last week was entirely predictable and yet baffling. Moscow announced its non-participation last November, and Secretary of State John Kerry…