THE KREMLIN FILES / COLUMN — Recent weeks have seen seismic shifts in the world’s authoritarian landscape: from the dramatic removal of Venezuela’s [...]
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OPINION — I had an unpleasant episode with Aldrich Ames which taught me some life lessons. I was a mid-level CIA analyst working Caucasus and Central [...]
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OPINION — I had an unpleasant episode with Aldrich Ames which taught me some life lessons. I was a mid-level CIA analyst working Caucasus and Central [...]
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DEEP DIVE – By any traditional definition, the city of Ryazan doesn’t belong on a list of battlegrounds in the Ukraine war. There are no Ukrainian [...]
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EXPERT INTERVIEW – More Western leaders and national security experts are now saying that Russia’s recent drone incursion into Poland was not a [...]
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DEEP DIVE — Ukraine fired a wave of drones and missiles at Moscow and several other Russian regions late Monday, in one of its heaviest attacks [...]
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — “Mirror, mirror on the wall—who’s the fairest one of all?” is the famous misquote from the movie Snow White. Speaking at a press [...]
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — I hope CIA has an agent like Dmitry Polyakov operating in Moscow right now. A Major General in Soviet Military Intelligence (the [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontAt the end of 2019, more than 16% of Venezuela’s population have fled the country, an astonishing 4.7 million people.Venezuelans [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontSenior U.S. officials have inexplicably parroted statements echoing the Kremlin’s talking points that Russia was a victim of a [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn the heels of its suspension from the U.S. F-35 fighter jet program, Turkey is now reportedly considering joint development of [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontUpcoming Russian-Iranian naval drills put Moscow clearly on the side of Tehran in the crisis unfolding between the United States [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontLast week, members of the Afghan Taliban along with Afghan politicians and power brokers met in Moscow to discuss the contours of [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontTurkey’s ruling AKP party is asking for a full recount in the mayoral election in Istanbul, making accusations of ‘wide-spread [...]
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With the so-called Islamic State losing its remaining territory, the focus has pivoted to geopolitical competition between the major powers involved [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontThe U.S. has enacted sanctions against Venezuela’s national oil company as well as against embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontOn January 28, intelligence officials warned of a Sino-Russian entente, with China and Russia more closely aligned than at any [...]
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