Russia

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The following report was produced in partnership with the Applied Policy Research Institute Armenia.  Executive Summary The article examines the significant geopolitical ramifications of the upcoming 2024 elections in the Republic of Georgia and the United States, in relation...

Introduction Historically, Russia has done everything it can to keep countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union in its so-called “sphere of influence” as far from the West’s orbit as possible. However, in recent years, some of...

On Monday, September 16, 2024, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that the US had completed its military withdrawal from Niger, leaving behind only its embassy security detachment. Unlike the rapid and chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021,...

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, August 30, Russia launched five glide bombs toward Kharkiv. One bomb obliterated the entrance of a twelve-story residential building, where a seventy-one-year-old burned alive. Another killed a fourteen-year-old girl sitting on a bench in...

G7 and BRICS The G7, led by the United States in the Global North, and BRICS, led by China in the Global South, are each working diligently to control the rules-based international order. To better understand this competition, it...

In early August, the Ukrainian army broke into Russia and, virtually undeterred, rapidly advanced seizing a significant area of the borderline region of Kursk. Given that this was the first foreign invasion of Russia since World War II, Russia’s...

Apparently, the collapse of the USSR did not mean the end of the Cold War. It took less than ten years for people trained within the KGB to take over the state management of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin...

The war in Ukraine has underscored the dangers of energy reliance on Russia for US national security. However, while much attention is directed toward Russia’s use of oil and gas as instruments of coercion on Europe, how Russia and...

On July 8, a Russian Kh-101 rocket flew into a children’s hospital in the center of Kyiv. On July 9, no less a figure than Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s primary mouthpiece, took to TASS, a preferred Kremlin megaphone, to...