If Putin has kompromat on Trump, how might he use it?
(WP) Imagine for one moment you are Vladimir Putin. Sitting on the desk in front of you is a file labeled “Trump, Donald.” Inside is a stack of documents your spy…
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Putin’s Leadership Is Reduced to Indecisive Posturing
(EDM) Grand geopolitical scheming took a break in Moscow last week. The main news—improbably—turned to the fiasco of the government trying, since April 16, to ban the popular instant messenger Telegram.…
Szakonyi: The attempted Trump-Putin cool-down won’t undo the recent, damaging sanctions
(VICE News) Two days after the U.S. launched missile strikes on Syria, President Trump’s U.N. Ambassador, Nikki Haley, made the rounds of Sunday political talk showspromising more economic sanctions for Russia over…
Russian Security Conference Slides 2018
MCIS slides on regional security in the Middle East and North Africa Today’s installment of MCIS slides comes courtesy of Sam Charap, who attended the breakout session on regional security in…
Post-election Russia; International sports politics; Russian soft power, conservatism & biopolitics; New Nemtsov book | Makarychev, Yatsyk
Post-elections Russia: what to expect? There are some questions how Russia would look after Putin`s expected re-election in March 2018. Whether Russia can attempt some changes internally and how West-Russia…
Ukraine’s 2017 Education Law Incites International Controversy Over Language Stipulation
(PONARS Policy Memo) The Ukrainian parliament launched a long-expected education reform policy with the adoption of a new “law on education” in September 2017. This development was welcomed by civil society and…
US Again Calls Russia’s Bluff on Syria
(EDM) For a week following the April 7 chemical attack in Douma (a suburb or Damascus, Syria), Russia was high-strung with anxiety about the United States’ forthcoming punishment of the Bashar…
How the West Should Respond to Russia’s “Borderization” in Georgia
(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia’s swift achievement of its political objectives in Crimea while firing hardly a shot generated much debate about the use and effectiveness of “hybrid warfare.” Although the term…
Baev: America and its international partners have a major advantage in Syria: money
(WSJ) The crisis in Syria—the chemical weapons attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, followed by the limited U.S.-U.K.-France military response—creates an opportunity to develop the broader Syria strategy the West now…
US, Russia keep from escalating conflict after Syrian strike | Interview with Kimberly Marten
(PBS) Russian President Putin on Saturday condemned a series of strikes on Syrian targets, calling the military action by the U.S. and its allies “an act of aggression against a sovereign…