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Podvig: My understanding of Russia’s Status-6 “nuclear torpedo”: it’s till kind of a paper project

(FOX News) Russia’s reported development of a formidable nuclear-powered torpedo or underwater drone is fueling concern about the potential devastation if the weapon were ever unleashed against U.S. cities. While there…

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Moscow Security Conference Soft Power Panel

(Russiamil blog) Today’s MCIS slides installment comes from Lt. General Sergey Kuralenko, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief for Peacekeeping Operations of the Russian Ground Forces. This comes from the breakout session on…

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Missiles of March: A political means of last resort for Putin

(Brookings) President Vladimir Putin’s extra-heavy emphasis on new strategic missile systems in his March 1 address to parliament was quite unexpected and rather out of character. My colleague Steven Pifer suspects that Putin…

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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.…

How Russia’s Nuclear Buildup Offers a Good Opportunity for Renewed Arms Control Dialogue

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russian President Vladimir Putin said in 2015 that he viewed the United States as seeking “to destroy strategic balance, to change the balance of power in such a…

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Russian Air Force procurement plans

(RMR) The last month or so has seen a number of good overviews in the Russian press of recent procurement and future plans of the Russian Air Force. The Russian Air…

Russia’s Military Modernization Plans: 2018-2027

(PONARS Policy Memo) By the end of 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin will approve Russia’s State Armament Program for 2018-2027. This memo summarizes publicly available information regarding the types of armaments…

Russia’s Entanglement in Syria: A Protracted, Extreme Stress Factor for the Russian Navy

(PONARS Policy Memo) On Russian Navy Day, July 30, 2017, a high-profile naval parade was held in St. Petersburg to demonstrate the power of the Russian Navy both to the world…

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Baev: We did not see a demonstration of readiness of newly formed divisions in Russia’s military exercises

(Washington Post) VILNIUS, Lithuania — The vast Russian military exercises that ended this week showed off a muscular fighting force practicing state-on-state warfare, NATO’s deputy military commander said, in one of the…

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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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Russian Military Reform

Podvig: My understanding of Russia’s Status-6 “nuclear torpedo”: it’s till kind of a paper project

Moscow Security Conference Soft Power Panel

Missiles of March: A political means of last resort for Putin

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

How Russia’s Nuclear Buildup Offers a Good Opportunity for Renewed Arms Control Dialogue

Russian Air Force procurement plans

Russia’s Military Modernization Plans: 2018-2027

Russia’s Entanglement in Syria: A Protracted, Extreme Stress Factor for the Russian Navy

Baev: We did not see a demonstration of readiness of newly formed divisions in Russia’s military exercises

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