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Zapad 2017
The Zapad 2017 exercise will begin on September 14, 2017. It will be carried out jointly by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...
The Real Estate Cold War: Russia and America Fighting Over “Parity”
This past week the United States informed the Russian Federation that it was going to immediately close the Russian consulate in San Francisco as...
On Fighting Sanctions and Trump’s Thin Skin Vulnerability
The high level individuals leaving the Trump administration must be a record. Eleven since the end of January averaging out to almost two per...
Tillerson visits Moscow: A New “Yalta” during the Trump and Putin Administrations?
U .S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in the Russian capital Moscow on Wednesday, April 12 for talks with Russian Foreign Minister...
The Bully Brothers: Why the World should be Happy about a Fake Cold War
As America slowly immolates under the creeping self-implosion of a chaotic and possibly incompetent new presidential administration, it is time to take a step...
Should NATO and Europe seek to contain or cooperate with Russia?
Over the history, Russian-West relations have been distinguished with various kinds of factors. From the standpoint of the western policymakers, Russia has never been...
The curious case of a Russian hacking
Ever since Donald Trump won the elections, the Democrats who have been (or ‘were’) very magnanimous about the fact they would accept the election...
Russia self-trapped in Abkhazia and South Ossetia?
Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two Russia-backed breakaway regions of Georgia were recognized by Russia as independent states following the Russia-Georgia war of August,...
NATO and Russia in the Baltic and the North Pole
NATO strategic response to Ukraine's annexation by the Russian Federation in March 2014 is currently focused on the forward defense of the Baltic countries,...
US Foreign Policy: Transactional or Value-Based
The 2016 elections presents a divergence in US foreign policy between the two major candidates. On one hand is the continuance of the status-quo...