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Doomed to Cooperate: US-Russian Lab-to-Lab Collaboration

(New Book) An account edited by Siegfried Hecker, Doomed to Cooperate tells the story of the collaboration through the words of American and Russian scientists who traveled to each other’s nuclear complexes…

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Charap: Russia is engaged in a new global Cold War against the U.S.

(Washington Post) The U.S.-Russia relationship is too big to fail, but it’s failing. The Obama administration came into office with a big idea about this relationship: that these two world powers…

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Russia’s Baltic Fleet shakeup

More information has come out on the June 29 purge of the Russian Baltic Fleet command structure. First of all, the size of the purge is unprecedented, with around 50 high ranking officers…

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Russia’s leaders are happy about Brexit, but it won’t help the regime much at home

(Washington Post) Before last week’s “Brexit” vote, British Prime Minister David Cameron claimed that Vladimir Putin (and the Islamic State) “might be happy” if the United Kingdom left the European Union. Putin responded that Russia…

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Sokov: Russia Quick to Threaten Nuclear Strikes in Regional Conflicts

(USDI) The Soviet Union’s old doctrine was: You deter World War III with nuclear weapons. Now Russia’s new doctrine: Threaten to use nuclear weapons against any major power that may try…

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Russia’s ‘Pivot’ to China Is Reduced to High-Level Bonhomie

(EDM) Expectations regarding President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing on Saturday (June 25) had been rather subdued, and the modest results were mostly immaterial. Last year, the two leaders grandiosely…

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Petrov: The Kremlin is interested in any kind of disagreement in the EU which makes it weaker

(NYT) President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia received the geopolitical equivalent of manna from heaven when British voters opted to leave the European Union, speeding his long-term goal of weakening…

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Podvig: Russian missile designers and military not threatened by US-backed shield

(Reuters) Russia is likely to deploy advanced nuclear-capable missiles in its European exclave of Kaliningrad by 2019, casting the move as a reply to a U.S.-backed missile shield, and may…

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The South Ossetia Referendum: No Rush for the Russians

(Carnegie Moscow Center) Over the past few years, the situation in and around South Ossetia has frequently incited heated debates. A new status quo was established in the Caucasus following the…

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What Russia’s Olympic ban means for Vladimir Putin

(Washington Post) Russia is the first country in the history of the Olympics to have an entire team—track and field—banned from participating in the Games because of doping. Individual athletes,…

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Doomed to Cooperate: US-Russian Lab-to-Lab Collaboration

Charap: Russia is engaged in a new global Cold War against the U.S.

Russia’s Baltic Fleet shakeup

Russia’s leaders are happy about Brexit, but it won’t help the regime much at home

Sokov: Russia Quick to Threaten Nuclear Strikes in Regional Conflicts

Russia’s ‘Pivot’ to China Is Reduced to High-Level Bonhomie

Petrov: The Kremlin is interested in any kind of disagreement in the EU which makes it weaker

Podvig: Russian missile designers and military not threatened by US-backed shield

The South Ossetia Referendum: No Rush for the Russians

What Russia’s Olympic ban means for Vladimir Putin