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Russia’s ‘Victory’ in Syria is Debunked, Derailed and Defeated

(EDM) Premature announcements of political triumphs often result in negative blowback, but Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of victory in the Syrian war was debunked particularly swiftly (see EDM, January 11, 2018).…

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Declaring Victory in Syria, Putin Stands to Lose the Elusive Peace

(EDM) The meeting of three presidents—Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani—in Sochi last Wednesday (November 22), was supposed to mark a triumph for Russian foreign policy.…

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Redefining Europe: Russia and the 2015 Refugee Crisis

(Geopolitics) Abstract: This article uses approaches embedded in practical and popular geopolitics for analysing how Russia capitalizes on the refugee crisis to redefine Europe. Two of Russia’s European policies are at…

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Russia Tries to Conclude Its Syrian Venture

(EDM) The working dinner in Ankara, last Thursday (September 27), between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, was not a productive affair or a cordial meeting of…

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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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Special Issue of Pathways to Peace and Security: Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization

Two PONARS Eurasia members contributed to the special issue of Pathways to Peace and Security, "Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization: Perspectives from Russia and the United States," published by Russia’s Institute…

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Midrats Springtime for Russia

(RMR blog) In what seems to have become an annual tradition, I was on the Blog Talk Radio show Midrats this week, talking about the Russian military, Russian political developments,…

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Herron: It is hard to think how the United States would cooperate with Russia in Syria

(WRNR Talk Radio) Erik Herron discusses Russia, U.S.-Russian relations, Syria, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin's domestic political system, Russia's undermining of Western institutions, the situation in Turkey, Donald Trump's orientation on foreign…

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Moscow Int’l Security Conference 2017 – Rudskoi slides

(Russian Military Reform) One last set of slides from the Moscow International Security Conference, this one mostly maps describing operations in Syria. A lot of the slides in this set were actually…

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Interview with Troitskiy: Russian-backed Syria peace talks suffer a setback

(ABC Australia) The latest effort to bring peace to Syria has suffered a major setback with the main opposition group walking out of Russian-backed talks, despite Vladmir Putin holding 24…

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Russia’s ‘Victory’ in Syria is Debunked, Derailed and Defeated

Declaring Victory in Syria, Putin Stands to Lose the Elusive Peace

Redefining Europe: Russia and the 2015 Refugee Crisis

Russia Tries to Conclude Its Syrian Venture

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Herron: It is hard to think how the United States would cooperate with Russia in Syria

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Interview with Troitskiy: Russian-backed Syria peace talks suffer a setback