Niger’s Pivot to Moscow: What’s Next for US Engagement in Africa?
On March 12, a delegation of US officials arrived in Niamey in a highly anticipated meeting on the future...
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Russia
Russian Women in the Face of War Against Ukraine
Introduction Consider the following pieces of a puzzle. Russia’s war against Ukraine has revealed stories about the heroic...
Crocus City Hall Concert Attack
On Friday, March 22, an attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow killed or wounded hundreds...
The Fire That Didn’t Burn: Transnistria’s Unanswered Call for Russian Support
On February 28, the legislature of Transnistria, a pro-Russia, de facto independent state internationally recognized as part of Moldova,...
Putin’s Warped Idea of Russian History
The total wartime losses of Russia and Ukraine are difficult to estimate. Neither country publishes accurate data, exaggerating the...
NATO Needs to Get Serious at Seventy-Five
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently arrived in Washington seeking to persuade the White House and Congress to successfully...
The Visegrád Four: Disunity in Central Europe
When the Russian army rolled into Ukraine in late February of 2022, it was clear that the invasion would...
Navalny’s Death and the Future of Dissent in Russia
On February 16, Russian authorities announced that long-time opposition figure and Putin critic, Alexei Navalny, had died in prison...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine
Key Findings Russia’s Black Sea Fleet’s supremacy on the Black Sea naval theater was contested in the early...
China’s Challenge to the International Economic Order
The United States has led the international economic order for the last seventy-eight years, with only the Soviet Union...