Russia’s policy in the Middle East imperilled by the Syrian intervention
(oDR/NOREF) The Middle East is the only area where Russia can try to prove that it is not just a regional post-Soviet power with a revisionist agenda, but a global…
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Petrov: They feel that the government is trying to fix the budget by taking money out of their pockets
(NYTimes) MOSCOW—Hundreds of long-distance truckers blocked a lengthy section of the ring road circling the capital on Friday to protest a new national toll, in the first sign that Russia’s economic…
Road Rage Redux
In case you haven’t noticed, Russia’s long-distance truck drivers are angry. And they are, finally, in Moscow. Right now. It is poetic, I suppose, that today’s long-awaited descent of Russian truckers…
Petrov: Conflict with Turkey is a useful development – offers Putin a chance to ease standoff with the West
(Times Oracle) "The conflict with Turkey is a useful development that offers Putin a chance to pick a new enemy and ease the standoff with the West", said Nikolai Petrov, a professor…
The Nuclear Element in Russia’s Asymmetric Warfare Strategies
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As events in recent years have made clear, Vladimir Putin’s Russia operates by a Cold War logic that divides the globe into spheres of influence: a “balanced…
The danger of Russian and Turkish competitive machismo in Syria
(Brookings) (Co-authored with Jeremy Shapiro) The downing of a Russian jet by Turkish fighters has brought the dangers posed by Moscow's intervention in Syria into sharp relief. While the Russian…
The Russian government has just asked 12 million citizens to forget about their ethnic identity
Vladimir Medinsky may be the undoing of the current Russian regime. As Minister of Culture, Medinsky is not in any formal sense a powerful person. But ever since President Vladimir…
Tkachenko: The Russian economy cannot replace what Turkey exports
(Daily Sabah) Russia will restrict its imports of Turkish fruit and vegetables as part of a new group of sanctions following Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane last week. Turkey, on…
Gorenburg: The differing interests of countries involved in Syria make working together a difficult proposition now
(RFE/RL) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country does not want an escalation in tensions with Russia after its jets shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane that Ankara said had…
Kurilla: The end of the Yeltsin era was when we said good-bye to independent journalism
(The Moscow Times) The opening of the center devoted to the legacy of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president, on Nov. 25 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, came on the heels of speculations surfacing among politicians that the notorious presidential…