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Moldova held its first nationwide presidential election in sixteen years on Sunday, 30 October with 49.03 percent of registered voters casting ballots for nine candidates. The first-place finisher was Igor Dodon, who represents the Russia-favoring Socialist Party. Mr. Dodon...

Al-Majalla On September 18th, Chechnya, one of the Russian Federation’s 22 constituent republics, held elections to vote for its Head, lawmakers of the republic’s parliament, as well as local government bodies. Early election results showed that Ramzan Kadyrov was...

Russia Matters One of the first things that the new Barack Obama administration initiated after taking office in January 2009 was a systemic, comprehensive review of U.S. policy toward Russia. Given the sustained criticism that President Obama has received...

Australian Institute of International Affairs Russia’s Far East is just as susceptible to Chinese power as the countries of the Indo-Pacific and if the country wants to shore up control over this region, repairing relations with the US will...

PBS NOVAnext Another day, another hacking. At least, that’s what it seemed at first. In August, two election databases in Arizona and Illinois were hacked. Arizona responded by shutting down voter registration for nearly a week, and in Illinois,...

The upcoming presidential elections in Moldova will determine whether the country further integrates with the European Union or develops a closer relationship with Russia....

In the early 1950s, the British government adopted a new approach to conducting covert operations behind the Iron Curtain. Dubbed "pinpricks" by the head of MI6, Stewart Menzies, it employed overt propaganda and limited covert action to chip away...

Foreign Affairs The month of October is never a quiet one in a U.S. presidential election year. But this time, the run-up to the vote has been marked by a series of high-stakes cyber-skirmishes between Washington and Moscow. Over...

U.S. mainstream media failed to properly investigate the Assad regime's handover of its chemical weapon stockpiles. Even as evidence mounted that all was not as it seemed, major news outlets ignored the signs. Recent reports vindicate Adam Garfinkle, the...

Al-Majalla President Putin’s government’s actions over the past few years have left Russia largely isolated from majority of the rest of the world; certainly from Europe and the U.S. Annexing Crimea in 2014, starting a war in Ukraine’s East,...