Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows how dangerously fragile the Russian Republic economy now is: Russia’s economic future beyond 2025 looks troubling. On the surface, economic growth and low unemployment create an illusion of stability for the country’s...
Radio Free Asia reports: Russian forces are burning the faces of North Korean soldiers killed in assaults on Ukrainian positions to conceal their identities and keep secret their deployment to help Russia in its war, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy....
UnderstandingWar.com reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued fixation on the Russian “Oreshnik” ballistic missile and Russia’s non-nuclear deterrents suggests that the Kremlin may be searching for off-ramps from its continued...
Per virtuoso blogger Chris Snow at Medium, Russia Plays Ruble Roulettenas their currency slides into the trash bin of history: Putin’s Russia will collapse, and only very few manage to see beyond the veil. Russia lies, but when you know where to look, then their...
Christopher S Chivvis, a senior fellow and director of the Carnegie Endowment’s American statecraft program, at The Guardian asks whether the war on Ukraine will escalate or end. Excerpt: To be sure, how Trump’s plans to end the war are still murky. A reasonable...
