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Russia Retreats From International Developments

(EDM) The end of April was extraordinarily rich in high-profile international events—and Russia was conspicuously absent from all these dynamics. The president of South Korea and the North Korean dictator planted…

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Putin’s Leadership Is Reduced to Indecisive Posturing

(EDM) Grand geopolitical scheming took a break in Moscow last week. The main news—improbably—turned to the fiasco of the government trying, since April 16, to ban the popular instant messenger Telegram.…

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US Again Calls Russia’s Bluff on Syria

(EDM) For a week following the April 7 chemical attack in Douma (a suburb or Damascus, Syria), Russia was high-strung with anxiety about the United States’ forthcoming punishment of the Bashar…

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Baev: America and its international partners have a major advantage in Syria: money

(WSJ) The crisis in Syria—the chemical weapons attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, followed by the limited U.S.-U.K.-France military response—creates an opportunity to develop the broader Syria strategy the West now…

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Black Friday’ Sanctions Against Putin’s Inner Circle

(EDM) The fact that, last Friday (April 6), the United States Department of the Treasury published a new list of severe sanctions targeting Russian businessmen, officials and companies came as no…

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Russia Escalates Novichok Crisis, Shifting Onus to US

(EDM) Moscow announced last week (March 29) that 60 American diplomats would be expelled, delivering a “mirror” response to every Western country that had sanctioned Russia in solidarity with the United…

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Putin’s Fake Victory Is Boring, but His New Term Will Be Anything But

(EDM) No surprises happened in Russia on Sunday, March 18, in the carefully orchestrated voting procedure generously described by the media as a “presidential elections.” But many questions loom over the…

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Baev: Now that the fight against Daesh is over, each party has its own agenda and Russia is suddenly lost

(Gulf News) Nearly two and a half years after the Russian military began an intensive bombing campaign in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, Russia is struggling to…

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Missiles of March: A political means of last resort for Putin

(Brookings) President Vladimir Putin’s extra-heavy emphasis on new strategic missile systems in his March 1 address to parliament was quite unexpected and rather out of character. My colleague Steven Pifer suspects that Putin…

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Baev: Russia is facing a series of new challenges in Syria as adversaries maneuver to secure zones of influence

(VOA) Moscow may have deployed two of its latest generation stealth warplanes to Syria, according to video footage of a pair of Su-57s landing at a Russian airbase in the…

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Russia Retreats From International Developments

Putin’s Leadership Is Reduced to Indecisive Posturing

US Again Calls Russia’s Bluff on Syria

Baev: America and its international partners have a major advantage in Syria: money

Black Friday’ Sanctions Against Putin’s Inner Circle

Russia Escalates Novichok Crisis, Shifting Onus to US

Putin’s Fake Victory Is Boring, but His New Term Will Be Anything But

Baev: Now that the fight against Daesh is over, each party has its own agenda and Russia is suddenly lost

Missiles of March: A political means of last resort for Putin

Baev: Russia is facing a series of new challenges in Syria as adversaries maneuver to secure zones of influence