Neo-Kennan Paranoia and the Hope for Russia’s Downfall
For more than two decades I have written about missed
opportunities and egregious missteps on the part of America (sometimes
accidental, sometimes seemingly deliberate) when it...
Russian Revisionism or Restoring Justice?
U.S. politicians have criticized the Russian application FaceApp, which
reads biometric data from user-uploaded photos and generates altered images:
those of the user in the future,...
Russia and Africa at the Crossroad
A decade
and half ago, precisely in May 2004, this opinion article has since remained
unpublished by the local Russian and foreign media. But, this time...
Russians Thinking About Constitutional Changes?
Hints in
the Russian media over the past several weeks suggest that there might be some
important constitutional changes ahead. In the long run, that could...
Shifting Sands: Chinese encroachment in Central Asia and challenges to US supremacy in the Gulf
China and Russia are as much allies as they are rivals.
A joint Tajik-Chinese
military exercise in
a Tajik region bordering on China’s troubled
north-western region of Xinjiang...
Hybrid Power and the Real Russian Realists
What is “hybrid power”? In the days of the
Vietnam war, the Vietnamese leadership described its strategy as
“politico-military-diplomatic”, by which they meant an organically integrated,
fused,...
Why Economic Sanctions Mean Little to Moscow
Realpolitik, a German term for
politics based on day-to-day calculations regarding the military and economic
balance of power among major states, should be used and discussed...
Russia and Italy: No Breakthroughs
The official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin
to Italy on July 4, 2019, the first in the past four years, became yet another
confirmation of...
Putin: Russia Ready to Work with Legitimate Leaders
President
Vladimir Putin accepted the credentials of 18 newly appointed foreign ambassadors,
among them seven from Africa, in a traditional ceremony in the St. Alexander
Hall of...
Russia’s State Duma and Foreign Parliaments Ready to Influence Global Politics
Russia’s
State Duma has gathered parliamentarians from Europe, Latin America, Asia and
Africa, creating a three-day solid platform to discuss the development of
international parliamentarism and the...