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As Putin’s Grasp on Power Weakens, His Foreign Policy Is Slackening

(EDM) Something quite extraordinary happened in Russia last week: a loud public outcry forced the authorities to set free Ivan Golunov, an investigative journalist crudely framed by the police for drug…

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Russian Intrigues in the Middle East

(EDM) Russian diplomacy is well known for its apparent readiness to engage with all parties to the multiple conflicts in the Middle East, and this characteristic has recently produced another awkward…

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Control Over Russian Political Agenda Slipping From Putin’s Hands

(EDM) In key global debates, Russia’s voice has been uncharacteristically timid lately, and various Russian domestic controversies are developing without the usual heavy-handed interference from the Kremlin—almost as if President Vladimir…

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Russia Undecided and Apprehensive About Elections in Ukraine

(EDM) The second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine, held last Sunday (April 21), was a rather unconventional democratic exercise. And for millions of keen followers in Russia, who…

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Putin Lauds Arctic Cooperation While Boosting Regional Militarization

(EDM) The fifth Russia-sponsored international forum “The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue” was staged last week (April 9–10), in St. Petersburg, and President Vladimir Putin used the occasion to demonstrate his particular…

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Russia Sets an Anniversary Ambush for NATO

(EDM) The meeting of 29 foreign ministers from member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in Washington, DC, last week (April 3–4), marking the 70th anniversary of the North…

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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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Fifth Anniversary of the Land Grab That Cost Russia Its Future

(EDM) By mid-March 2014, Russian “little green men” took full control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. And on March 18, President Vladimir Putin made a jubilant address to the Russian Federation Council…

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Five Issues Putin Preferred Not to Talk About

(EDM) The annual presidential address to the Federal Assembly (upper chamber of the Russian parliament) is a big political show in Russia, which tells little about the state of the country…

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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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As Putin’s Grasp on Power Weakens, His Foreign Policy Is Slackening

Russian Intrigues in the Middle East

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Russia Undecided and Apprehensive About Elections in Ukraine

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Five Issues Putin Preferred Not to Talk About

Three Conferences and a New Set of Russian Sanctions