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Putin’s Desperation Deepens as His Blunders Accumulate

(EDM) Russian foreign policy took an unexpected turn and suffered a serious setback last week when President Vladimir Putin suggested sending to Washington a delegation headed by Prime Minister Dmitry…

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Baev: Russia’s options in Syria include firing missiles from bombers and Mediterranean submarines

(CNN) Two weeks after they started, Russian airstrikes in Syria are ratcheting up — and are being closely coordinated with regime ground forces as they try to seize rebel-held territory. According to many observers of…

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Baev: Russia conflates the Islamic State with other Islamist factions and opposition groups

(Wall Street Journal) Russian warplanes continued airstrikes overnight in Syria, as officials Thursday dismissed Western assertions that Moscow wasn’t targeting Islamic State in Syria but was aiming at other opponents…

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Putin’s Syrian intrigue has yielded zero dividends

(European Leadership Network) Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war appeared to gain momentum every day over the past month, up until President Vladimir Putin’s address to the UN General…

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Video: What does Moscow get from offering Assad military support? (with P. Baev)

(PBS NewsHour) What do we know about Russia’s military involvement in Syria? Gwen Ifill speaks to Pavel Baev of the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Steven Simon of Dartmouth College.…

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Baev: Russia’s Arctic theme is militarization rather than climate change

(BBC News) When, like Evon Peter, you know your ancestors have lived, hunted and fished the same land for 14,000 years, the concerns of nations which have existed only for…

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Putin’s Pivot to China: Profit-Free, but Problem-Rich

(EDM) China will host a huge military parade in Beijing on September 3, and President Vladimir Putin will be in attendance—returning President Xi Jinping’s earlier gesture of Sino-Russian partnership, which the…

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Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today

(POLITICO) HELSINKI — When Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of the Soviet Union, he did not see much need to threaten Europe with his country’s vast nuclear arsenal: The USSR’s overwhelming…

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Russia’s Reputation Sinks Precipitously in International Opinion Polls

(EDM) While breaking the norms of international behavior at its own discretion, Russia may fancy itself a champion of change in the world order; but in fact, it is increasingly…

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Baev: Kremlin sees nuclear weapons as ultimate proof that Russia is a great power

(The Japan Times) In the nervous aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, people worldwide spent decades on alert for a nuclear war that would wipe out billions in a radioactive firestorm and…

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Putin’s Desperation Deepens as His Blunders Accumulate

Baev: Russia’s options in Syria include firing missiles from bombers and Mediterranean submarines

Baev: Russia conflates the Islamic State with other Islamist factions and opposition groups

Putin’s Syrian intrigue has yielded zero dividends

Video: What does Moscow get from offering Assad military support? (with P. Baev)

Baev: Russia’s Arctic theme is militarization rather than climate change

Putin’s Pivot to China: Profit-Free, but Problem-Rich

Baev: Soviet troops were far better organized, trained, and supplied than today

Russia’s Reputation Sinks Precipitously in International Opinion Polls

Baev: Kremlin sees nuclear weapons as ultimate proof that Russia is a great power