As the cease-fire in Syria crumbles, negotiations over another area of contention between Moscow and the West — Ukraine — seem to be faring better. At a meeting in Minsk on Wednesday, representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for ...
Whether a ploy to draw the United States into coordinating with its forces or an attempt to undercut a potentially threatening rebel group, Russia took a bold step in Syria a few days ago. Russian aircraft carried out a series ...
The previous cease fire negotiated in Minsk in May 2015 is for now largely holding. No serious fightings have been reported since between the two countries. But things are about to change, with Russia awaiting EU decisions concerning the financial ...
After nine years in office, popular Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that he is done with public service. In a Feb. 27 interview, he declared that he will leave his post in April at the end of his current term, ...
Summary Feb. 27 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Russian opposition heavyweight Boris Nemtsov. His killing sparked two weeks of intrigue in Russia’s top political circles, laying bare previously obscured Kremlin infighting and putting President Vladimir Putin’s continued control in question. ...
Forecast Unless the Russian government changes its policies on combating and treating HIV, the number of Russians with the virus will double in the next four years, according to Russia’s Federal AIDS Center. Cultural traditions, economic weakness and Russia’s standoff ...
Summary Russia wants to expand its transit networks – and its influence – south, but doing so will not be easy. Over the past two years, Russia has been busy expanding its road and rail networks southward, through the North ...
Forecast Persistent tension between Moscow and Kiev will encourage Russia to keep looking for pipeline routes to Europe that bypass Ukraine. TurkStream will probably remain shuttered until icy Russia-Turkey relations thaw. Given numerous political hurdles, South Stream’s prospects are similarly ...
Analysis Moscow’s assertive stance since a Turkish fighter downed a Russian Su-24 in late November has started to affect Washington and Ankara’s air operations over Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a Dec. 17 interview that he sees no prospect ...
They called the First World War simply ‘The Great War’ until the start of the second truly global conflict erupted in 1939. Fortunately, despite a few proxy wars and more than a few close calls during the Cold War, the world ...