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Vladimir Putin Has Reasons to be Nervous

OPINION - On the surface, Russian President Vladimir Putin projects calm and strength, as was evident as he hosted a Victory Day parade in Moscow’s [...] More

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Analysis: The U.S.-Russia Disagreement over the INF Treaty - Do Svedanya

Analysis: The U.S.-Russia Disagreement over the INF Treaty - Do Svedanya

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. decision to withdraw [...] More

The Russia Threat is More Comprehensive than you Think

Russia. We hear and read about it every day in the mainstream media, but the news seems almost exclusively focused on the various investigations of [...] More

Don't Lose Sight of the Russian Threat to American Democracy

Don't Lose Sight of the Russian Threat to American Democracy

It has now been 18 months since the November 2016 presidential election, during which the U.S. intelligence community believes Russia acted not only [...] More

In Putin’s Fourth Term, What—If Anything—Threatens His Control?

On May 7, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his fourth six-year term as President of Russia. He gained more than 76 percent of the vote and—despite [...] More

Beating Moscow at its Main Game: Espionage

We talk a lot these days about smart power and hard power and soft power even the sharp power of manipulating information. In the end, power and [...] More

Inside the Competitive, Corrupt World of Russian Intelligence

Inside the Competitive, Corrupt World of Russian Intelligence

Bottom Line: The Kremlin employs various often overlapping and competitive security and intelligence services to create multiple sources of [...] More

Another Russian Dossier, aka What Moscow Has Always Done

Another Russian Dossier, aka What Moscow Has Always Done

In the book “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy,” John Le Carré’s chief character, retired British intelligence officer George Smiley, is reminded of the [...] More

Time to Rethink Deterring Russia?

Time to Rethink Deterring Russia?

The United States has taken a number of steps in recent weeks to push back on Russian aggression, but they won’t deter Russia’s aggressive campaign [...] More

Behind the Curtain of Vladimir Putin’s “Democracy”

In the latter part of the 18th century, not too long after an earlier annexation of Crimea by Russia, a Russian governor by the name of Grigory [...] More

What Scares Vladimir Putin the Most? It's Still Democracy.

President Donald Trump seized upon Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 37-page indictment with a tweet that the Russians were laughing over their [...] More

The Last 48 Hours Have Been Good for Putin

Just ahead of President Donald Trump’s delivery of the State of the Union, the State Department released a list of “influential Russians,” including [...] More

Don't be Fooled by New Casks for Putin's Old Snake Oil

In the version of Aesop’s fable, “The Farmer and the Viper,” as recounted by Roman fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus, a farmer finds a viper freezing in [...] More