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Putin’s Indifference to the Turkish Offensive in Syria

(EDM) The massive and indiscriminate air strikes and the limited land offensive into Kurdish-controlled northern Syria launched by Turkey last Wednesday (October 9) have attracted prime international attention and caused much…

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Russian-Turkish Missile Deal Enacted by Weakening Autocrats

(EDM) Since July 12, Russian transport planes have been landing at the Murted Air Base near Ankara, delivering elements of the S-400 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, which Turkey purchased despite strong…

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Roberts: The situation in Xinjiang led to a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of Uyghur militancy

(Radio Free Asia) A number of ethnic Uyghur Muslims have trained and fought with Islamic insurgents battling the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria in the hope of using their experience to…

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Kremlin Tries to Pivot Attention to Syria Upon Release of Mueller Report

(EDM) The conclusion of the 22-month-long investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and the presentation of his report to United States Attorney General William Barr is certain to capture prime…

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Three Conferences and a New Set of Russian Sanctions

(EDM) Mid-February registered a remarkable sequence of international forums, whose participants debated and sought to counter Russia’s power politics in Europe and the Middle East. First, defense ministers of the North…

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Marten: The Venezuelan crisis is unfolding during a dangerous period in U.S.-Russian relations

(Eurasianet) A leading American scholar on U.S.-Russian relations is voicing alarm over reports that paramilitaries from a Russian military contractor have filtered into Venezuela, the Latin American nation where the…

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The Syrian Predicament Turns Precarious for Russia

(EDM) Foreign affairs have yielded few successes and much chagrin for Russia since the start of 2019 (see EDM, January 14, 2019). Relations with the United States are going from bad to…

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Aktürk: The relationship between the Turkish and Syrian presidents was broken after the Assad regime launched its policy of mass murder

(Al Jazeera) Ten years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then prime minister of Turkey, hosted Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for a family holiday in the Aegean resort of Bodrum as relations between Turkey and Syria soared to new…

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Putin’s Anti-Israeli ‘Surge’ in Syria

(EDM) The Russian Ministry of Defense did not wait long to deliver its promised S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria. On the night of October 3, a huge An-124 Ruslan transport plane…

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Marten: Wagner soldiers also offer the Russian government “plausible deniability” if something goes wrong

(Global News) Three Russian journalists wound up dead last week in the Central African Republic, where they’d been following a shadowy paramilitary force that often backs Kremlin causes. It’s unclear who killed the three men, but…

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Putin’s Indifference to the Turkish Offensive in Syria

Russian-Turkish Missile Deal Enacted by Weakening Autocrats

Roberts: The situation in Xinjiang led to a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of Uyghur militancy

Kremlin Tries to Pivot Attention to Syria Upon Release of Mueller Report

Three Conferences and a New Set of Russian Sanctions

Marten: The Venezuelan crisis is unfolding during a dangerous period in U.S.-Russian relations

The Syrian Predicament Turns Precarious for Russia

Aktürk: The relationship between the Turkish and Syrian presidents was broken after the Assad regime launched its policy of mass murder

Putin’s Anti-Israeli ‘Surge’ in Syria

Marten: Wagner soldiers also offer the Russian government “plausible deniability” if something goes wrong