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Podvig linked mysterious Russian “forest flash” in 2016 to test of Yars-M ICBM

(Barents Observer) Locals in the village of Ust-Pocha in the Pinega district (Arkhangelsk Oblast) were all shocked by two huge explosions on August 25th last year. The powerful blasts could be heard from…

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Podvig: Sending actual rocket engines to North Korea would be a very difficult thing to pull off, whether in Russia or Ukraine

(SN) In the days that followed Monday’s report in The New York Times that North Korea may have illicitly procured advanced Soviet-era rocket engines from Ukraine, the response out of the post-Soviet nation…

Putin’s Renationalization Campaign: Fighting Corruption or Forcing Officials’ Loyalty?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Large street protests returned to Russia on March 26, 2017, following the posting by Alexei Navalny, the well-known Russian blogger, of a YouTube video accusing Prime Minister Dmitry…

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A Roadmap for U.S.-Russia Relations

(CSIS Report) At a time when tension between the US and Russia is higher than it has been in decades, we cannot forget that the relationship between these two countries is…

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Not All Is Lost in Russian-EU Cross-Border Cooperation

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian-EU relations have dramatically worsened since Russia’s involvement in Ukrainian affairs in 2014. Mutual mistrust and suspicion have rapidly increased and many cooperative efforts have been canceled.…

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Podvig: Russia’s early warning radars are reasonably adequate for the job (threat identification)

(National Interest) If the United States decides to attempt to shoot down future North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests using the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, it is likely that Russia’s early…

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Everything You Need to Know: Russia’s Massive Zapad Military Exercise

(National Interest) The Zapad-2017 military exercise that will take place in September in Russia and Belarus has already begun to draw attention in the Western press. In recent days, media outlets…

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Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945 [NEW BOOK]

As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia…

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President Trump’s Warsaw Speech: A Window into a Trump Doctrine?

Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for half a year. Over this time, observers have been trying to see through the cloud of his often controversial…

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Kuchins: The new Russia sanctions are significant; they are tied to Ukraine, Syria, and US elections [Audio]

(Wharton Business Radio) New Russian Sanctions with Rudra Sil, Richard Connolly, and Andrew Kuchins. A bill has been passed on new tougher sanctions on Russia. Moscow is warning retaliation against Washington and…

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Podvig linked mysterious Russian “forest flash” in 2016 to test of Yars-M ICBM

Podvig: Sending actual rocket engines to North Korea would be a very difficult thing to pull off, whether in Russia or Ukraine

Putin’s Renationalization Campaign: Fighting Corruption or Forcing Officials’ Loyalty?

A Roadmap for U.S.-Russia Relations

Not All Is Lost in Russian-EU Cross-Border Cooperation

Podvig: Russia’s early warning radars are reasonably adequate for the job (threat identification)

Everything You Need to Know: Russia’s Massive Zapad Military Exercise

Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945 [NEW BOOK]

President Trump’s Warsaw Speech: A Window into a Trump Doctrine?

Kuchins: The new Russia sanctions are significant; they are tied to Ukraine, Syria, and US elections [Audio]