Kramer: Some of the remarks in the email exchanges hint at collusion
(BI) The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016 at Trump Tower, under the guise of offering the Trump campaign damaging information on Hillary Clinton, may have…
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Kramer: I’m inclined to trust Lavrov, who maintains that Trump accepted Putin’s denials
(Business Insider) As President Donald Trump finished his two-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Moscow was already declaring the bilateral sit-down a victory for Russia and preparing to tell…
The Soviet Roots of Meddling in U.S. Politics
(PONARS Policy Memo) The release on January 6 of an unclassified version of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s report describing efforts by Russian security services to influence last year’s U.S. presidential…
Kramer: Soviet intelligence and security agencies waged a vigorous campaign for decades to meddle in U.S. politics
(NYTimes) Spies are usually thought of as bystanders who quietly steal secrets in the shadows. But the Russian versions, schooled in techniques used during the Cold War against the United States,…
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
(New Book) The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the…
Kramer: There is a distinct Soviet approach to counterinsurgency
(Boston Globe) When Russian jets started bombing Syrian insurgents, it was no surprise that fans of President Bashar Assad felt buoyed. What was surprising was the outsized, even over-the-top expectations…
High-Level Corruption in Russia
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Vladimir Putin has now ruled Russia as president, prime minister, and president for sixteen years. The current political system in Russia, including the corruption that pervades it,…
Kramer offers a compelling explanation of the Kremlin’s worry about revolutions
(WP) Is Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to engineer a frozen conflict in Eastern Ukraine? That’s what some observers argue: that the main goal of sending troops there is to create permafrost, much like…
New Policy Memo: The Return of Islamic State Fighters: The Impact on the Caucasus and Central Asia
The devastating civil war in Syria and the long-standing turmoil in Iraq have been magnets for jihadists (and aspiring jihadists) from the Caucasus and Central Asia. No sooner had a…
The Return of Islamic State Fighters: The Impact on the Caucasus and Central Asia
The devastating civil war in Syria and the long-standing turmoil in Iraq have been magnets for jihadists (and aspiring jihadists) from the Caucasus and Central Asia. No sooner had a…