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Podvig: Rogozin confirmed that missiles (with nuclear warheads) were on the Russian submarine that caught fire in 2011

(Popular Mechanics) Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has admitted that a December 2011 incident involving a nuclear missile submarine almost became one of the worst nuclear weapons disasters ever recorded.…

Russia’s Syria Policy: The Hard Path of Military Disengagement

(PONARS Policy Memo) On December 11, 2017, two and a half years after the start of Russia’s military campaign in Syria, President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Hmeimim Air Base…

Marten: If misinformation continues to flood social media and tech companies fail to improve moderation, the remedy may be in media literacy

(LA Times) Russia has been trolling the United States for decades. It bankrolled American authors who claimed Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy under the direction of the FBI and CIA;…

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…

Russia on the Eve of its Presidential Election: How Long Can Change and Stasis Coexist?

(PONARS Policy Memo) At last, Vladimir Putin has decided that he will indeed be a candidate in the 2018 presidential election. Considering how long he has been in charge, it…

New ‘Hybrid’ Plots Revealed in Russian Anti-Western Policy

(EDM) The central theme of the traditional Munich Security Conference last weekend was the current assessment of the Russian threat. The briefs prepared for the high-level participants, including US Secretary of…

Trump maintains ‘no collusion’ after Russian indictments | PBS Interview with Kimberly Marten

(PBS) The indictment by Special Counsel, Robert Mueller detailed a coordinated scheme by Russians to interfere in the U.S. electoral process, boost President Trumps presidential campaign and undermine Hillary Clinton. The…

Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia

(Brookings Report) Lenin was famously, perhaps apocryphally, asked how to advance a political cause. He’s reported to have answered, “Probe with a bayonet; if you meet steel, stop! If you meet…

Why Trump’s Bid to Improve U.S.-Russian Relations Backfired in Congress

(PONARS Policy Memo) One of Donald Trump’s 2016 keynote foreign policy pledges was to improve relations with Russia. Few would have predicted that after a year in office, his plan would…

VIDEO: Atlantic Council book discussion with Hale, Yatsyk: Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics

The Atlantic Council and the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies held a book discussion on Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance. On the night of February 27,…

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