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Putin Moves to Heighten Russia’s Role After Suleimani Killing
Since its pivotal intervention in the Syrian civil war in 2015, Russia has sought to position itself as a major player in the Middle East, establishing itself as a rare broker...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Satellite Images Reveal New Russian Long-Range Radar in the Arctic
For much of the past decade Russia has reactivated and expanded military bases and infrastructure along its northern frontier. Earlier this year High North News published a de...
By Jim Townsend
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In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia's Military Buildup
There are precisely 525 stairs from the icy waters of the Barents Sea to the top of the observation post in the far northeast corner of Norway, along the Russian border. It's ...
By Jim Townsend
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'Spaghetti at the wall': Russia rewriting World War II history to justify modern aggression
Several Twitter accounts belonging to the Russian Foreign Ministry have been pushing false narratives about the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II in what experts beli...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Russians Begin to Consider Life Without Putin
At the height of summer, the Russian capital was plunged into an unexpected political crisis as thousands of people took to the streets week after week to protest the election...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russian interference, 2020
Americans are at each other's throats. Politically, socially and culturally, we suspect each other's motives and plain sanity. So certain are we of the other's intent to do th...
By Richard Fontaine
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The US is silent as Turkey starts receiving a Russian missile system that could jeopardize the F-35 stealth fighter
As NATO ally Turkey receives its first shipment of the controversial Russian air defense system that has for months been driving a wedge between Ankara and Washington, the US ...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia looks for Asia LNG buyers to blunt Western sanctions' bite
Russia is boosting Arctic production of liquefied natural gas to counter growing competition from the U.S. while looking to Asia's major energy importers to buffer projects ag...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Is the U.S. Planning for the Right War?
On Sept. 10, 2001, the George W. Bush administration had a view of American national security that, in 24 hours, was buried under the rubble of the World Trade Center. The day...
By Elbridge Colby
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Why Russia is the big winner of the Iran deal fallout
Iran announced Wednesday that it would stop complying with certain elements of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal, in 60 days if the...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Inside the West’s Plans for Arctic War Against Russia
On the slope of a snow-covered hill deep in the Arctic Circle, some of the world’s best-trained commandos are struggling to complete an ambush exercise knee-deep in the snow. ...
By Jim Townsend
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What’s Russia still doing to interfere with U.S. politics — and what’s the U.S. doing about it?
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone Friday morning, covering, according to both sides, a wide range of issues. Included among them, according t...
By Carrie Cordero
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Why is Russia clashing with the United States over Venezuela?
There was an unexpected twist Tuesday evening as Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó's attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro’s government appeared to be spu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Is Still Russia. But Its Stocks Are Suddenly Worth Buying Again.
A lot of things are suddenly going Russia’s way, the most important of them emanating from Washington. The Mueller Report, despite voluminous detail on Moscow’s election inter...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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As the Russia investigation ends, experts see two years of American political dysfunction as a win for Putin
The special counsel investigation was often cast as a clash between President Trump and Robert S. Mueller III. But there was always a third player, for whom victory seemed ass...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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North Korean Dictator Seeks Russian Strongman for Support, Friendship
With little progress to show from two nuclear summits with the U.S., North Korea is turning to an old friend—Moscow—as leader Kim Jong Un tries to chart a course toward winnin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Neil Bhatiya
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US reacts to Chinese and Russian Arctic Activity, Pompeo to attend Arctic Council Meeting
Just weeks after the US Coast Guard secured funding for a new and long-awaited icebreaker and the US Navy announced that it plans to sail multiple vessels through the Arctic O...
By Jim Townsend
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Russian oligarch and Putin ally sues Treasury, demands lifting of U.S. sanctions
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska sued the Treasury Department and Secretary Steven Mnuchin in U.S. federal court to demand the lifting of remaining U.S. sanctions against hi...
By Peter Harrell
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Russia, Europe and the USA
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and James Townsend from the Center for a New American Security discuss varying perceptions and policies across Europe with regard to threats posed by Rus...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Kremlin seeks more control over internet in Russia
Russia is taking steps to tighten its grip on the internet within its borders, as the nation’s legislature advanced legislation this week that would test temporarily disconnec...
By LtCol Colin Smith