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The Kremlin’s Arctic Plans: More Gutted than Grand

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Over the past decade, Russia has launched a diplomatic and symbolic offensive in the Arctic, supported by increased military activity, grandiose economic plans, and showy assertions…

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Sergei Medvedev: If there’s a Brexit, a crisis in the EU, this will be a local propaganda victory

(BBC) You don't have to be British to have an opinion on Brexit. In recent weeks a string of world leaders have expressed their views on the UK's EU referendum. And…

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Alexseev/Hale survey shows Russians are not interested in further territorial expansion

(Washington Post) Is nationalism what really drives Russian politics? Many politicians and political scientists (including, for example, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Zbigniew Brzezinski) argue that the 2014 annexation of Crimea showed President Vladimir Putin’s desire…

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Podvig: It’s possible Russia does not have a plan for anti-satellite missiles

(Newsmax) Russia held a successful flight test of an anti-satellite missile that has the capability of shooting down orbiting satellites, according to American defense officials. The Washington Free Beacon U.S. intelligence…

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Charap: Normalizing relations with Russia has been a personal foreign policy priority of Japan’s prime minster

(FT) For 17 years, until 2014, the G7 was the G8. In a goodwill gesture to post-communist Russia, the Group of Seven industrialised democracies invited Russian president Boris Yeltsin to attend…

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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…

The “Return of Stalin”: Understanding the Surge of Historical Politics in Russia

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) At the beginning of this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov published an article in Russia in Global Affairs explaining the recent radical changes in Russia’s foreign…

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The Costs to the United States of the August 2008 War

May 19, 2016

(SCAR) To assess the question of what kind of costs the 2008 war imposed on the United States or to U.S. foreign policy, we need to distinguish between a few meanings…

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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…

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Belarus defense minister slides from MCIS 2016

Today’s installment of the Moscow International Security Conference 2016 slides brings us to Andrei Ravkov, the Minister of Defense of Belarus, who spoke at the European security plenary session near the end…

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The Kremlin’s Arctic Plans: More Gutted than Grand

Sergei Medvedev: If there’s a Brexit, a crisis in the EU, this will be a local propaganda victory

Alexseev/Hale survey shows Russians are not interested in further territorial expansion

Podvig: It’s possible Russia does not have a plan for anti-satellite missiles

Charap: Normalizing relations with Russia has been a personal foreign policy priority of Japan’s prime minster

The Futility of Dialogue With Putin

The “Return of Stalin”: Understanding the Surge of Historical Politics in Russia

The Costs to the United States of the August 2008 War

Putin Commits to Countering New Strategic ‘Threat’ to Russia

Belarus defense minister slides from MCIS 2016