RT recently translated and republished another article by Timofei Bordachev, one of the Valdai Club’s Programme Directors who’s among Russia’s top experts, about the situation along Russia’s southern flank. The immediate context concerned Putin’s successful trip to Kazakhstan in...
Zelensky published a highly incendiary open letter to Putin last week requesting a bilateral meeting for ending the Ukrainian Conflict by freezing the frontlines with no Ukrainian concessions whatsoever at all. Putin rejected this request with good reason, but...
New President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Dmitriy Trenin has become famous for breaking taboos like he did here and here respectively regarding his clarion call for correcting foreign policy misperceptions, including about Ukraine, and his constructive...
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Christopher Smith told lawmakers at a hearing on threats to the Baltic States in mid-May that the US expects Russia to redirect some of its forces from Ukraine towards...
Trump 2.0’s Neo-Reagan Doctrine, which refers to its aggressive rolling back of Russian influence worldwide as a means of pressuring Putin into (potentially painful) compromises on Ukraine, has been very successful along Russia’s entire southern periphery in the South...
Several top “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” (NRPR) influencers rang the alarm last month about Russia’s alleged plans to attack NATO, which were inspired by top hawk Sergey Karaganov and then Russian Ambassador to the OSCE Dmitry Polyanskiy ominously channeling his rhetoric....
Politico reported last week that “Pentagon likely to cancel missile sale to Germany over fears of Russia” but editorialized that “American officials, even if primarily fearful of Russia’s reaction, likely are also worried about the shrinking U.S. weapons stockpile.”...
New President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Dmitri Trenin pioneered the trend of breaking Russian political taboos in early April after issuing a clarion call for correcting foreign policy misperceptions. RIAC Director General Ivan Timofeev followed his...
The Lithuanian Defense Minister recently revealed that his country is in talks with the US about hosting its nukes as part of the nuclear sharing program, which Politico reminded readers follows on the heels of the Financial Times’ report...
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov warned during a recent meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services that “The West seeks to disrupt integration processes and undermine stability in CIS countries...
