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Gorenburg: Companies want security in Russian Arctic shipping lanes

(The Moscow Times) Long-discussed Russian plans to develop an Arctic passage rivaling the Suez Canal are finally coming closer to reality, even as low oil prices threaten the financial viability of the route.   After years of little…

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Gorenburg: Kaliningrad the “obvious place” to deploy more military hardware

(RFE/RL) Russia is pouring troops and weapons — including missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads — into its western exclave of Kaliningrad at such a rate that the region is…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 5: International cooperation in combating terrorism

With apologies for the long delay, today I'm posting the final installment of my notes from the 2015 Moscow Conference on International Security, covering the panel on combating terrorism and…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 4: Russian views of NATO

In addition, to the plenary session, there were two panels at this year's MCIS conference. The second, on the role of military and political instruments in ensuring regional and global…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 3: Speeches by foreign defense ministers

This year, there were a lot of foreign defense ministers participating in the Moscow Conference on International Security. In fact, there were so many that the organizers had to take…

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Gorenburg: Russian military programs will keep running, but cuts or delays are inevitable

(WSJ) MOSCOW—Russia’s economic crisis is forcing President Vladimir Putin to quietly scale back plans to build an “indomitable” military, even as Moscow readies one of the largest-ever displays of its might on Red…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 2: Gerasimov on military threats facing Russia

Here’s the second installment of my reporting from the 2015 MCIS conference. This one and the next will focus on Russian views of NATO as the primary source of military threat…

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Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 1: The plenary speeches

Last week, I was once again in attendance at the Russian MOD's Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS). As I did last year, over the next couple of weeks I'll…

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Interview on last month’s Russian military exercises

(L’Indro) A couple of weeks ago, I gave an interview to an Italian newspaper on the significance of the Russian military exercises that were conducting in conjunction with the first anniversary of the…

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Gorenburg: Russia has ambitions of restoring its blue water navy in the long term

(The Diplomat) In the last two years, Russia’s second-biggest fleet, the Pacific Fleet, has been receiving new ships for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2013…

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Gorenburg

Gorenburg: Companies want security in Russian Arctic shipping lanes

Gorenburg: Kaliningrad the “obvious place” to deploy more military hardware

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 5: International cooperation in combating terrorism

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 4: Russian views of NATO

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 3: Speeches by foreign defense ministers

Gorenburg: Russian military programs will keep running, but cuts or delays are inevitable

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 2: Gerasimov on military threats facing Russia

Moscow Conference on International Security 2015 Part 1: The plenary speeches

Interview on last month’s Russian military exercises

Gorenburg: Russia has ambitions of restoring its blue water navy in the long term