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'Spaghetti at the wall': Russia rewriting World War II history to justify modern aggression
In The News
Several Twitter accounts belonging to the Russian Foreign Ministry have been pushing false narratives about the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II in what experts beli...
By Carisa Nietsche
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Russians Begin to Consider Life Without Putin
In The News
At the height of summer, the Russian capital was plunged into an unexpected political crisis as thousands of people took to the streets week after week to protest the election...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russian interference, 2020
In The News
Americans are at each other's throats. Politically, socially and culturally, we suspect each other's motives and plain sanity. So certain are we of the other's intent to do th...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Defense / Transatlantic Security
The US is silent as Turkey starts receiving a Russian missile system that could jeopardize the F-35 stealth fighterAs NATO ally Turkey receives its first shipment of the controversial Russian air defense system that has for months been driving a wedge between Ankara and Washington, the US ...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russia looks for Asia LNG buyers to blunt Western sanctions' biteRussia is boosting Arctic production of liquefied natural gas to counter growing competition from the U.S. while looking to Asia's major energy importers to buffer projects ag...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Is the U.S. Planning for the Right War?On Sept. 10, 2001, the George W. Bush administration had a view of American national security that, in 24 hours, was buried under the rubble of the World Trade Center. The day...
By Elbridge Colby
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Why Russia is the big winner of the Iran deal falloutIran announced Wednesday that it would stop complying with certain elements of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal, in 60 days if the...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Inside the West’s Plans for Arctic War Against Russia
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On the slope of a snow-covered hill deep in the Arctic Circle, some of the world’s best-trained commandos are struggling to complete an ambush exercise knee-deep in the snow. ...
By Jim Townsend
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What’s Russia still doing to interfere with U.S. politics — and what’s the U.S. doing about it?
In The News
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone Friday morning, covering, according to both sides, a wide range of issues. Included among them, according t...
By Carrie Cordero
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Why is Russia clashing with the United States over Venezuela?
In The News
There was an unexpected twist Tuesday evening as Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó's attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro’s government appeared to be spu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russia Is Still Russia. But Its Stocks Are Suddenly Worth Buying Again.A lot of things are suddenly going Russia’s way, the most important of them emanating from Washington. The Mueller Report, despite voluminous detail on Moscow’s election inter...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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As the Russia investigation ends, experts see two years of American political dysfunction as a win for Putin
In The News
The special counsel investigation was often cast as a clash between President Trump and Robert S. Mueller III. But there was always a third player, for whom victory seemed ass...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
North Korean Dictator Seeks Russian Strongman for Support, FriendshipWith little progress to show from two nuclear summits with the U.S., North Korea is turning to an old friend—Moscow—as leader Kim Jong Un tries to chart a course toward winnin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Neil Bhatiya
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US reacts to Chinese and Russian Arctic Activity, Pompeo to attend Arctic Council Meeting
In The News
Just weeks after the US Coast Guard secured funding for a new and long-awaited icebreaker and the US Navy announced that it plans to sail multiple vessels through the Arctic O...
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russian oligarch and Putin ally sues Treasury, demands lifting of U.S. sanctionsRussian billionaire Oleg Deripaska sued the Treasury Department and Secretary Steven Mnuchin in U.S. federal court to demand the lifting of remaining U.S. sanctions against hi...
By Peter Harrell
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Russia, Europe and the USA
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor and James Townsend from the Center for a New American Security discuss varying perceptions and policies across Europe with regard to threats posed by Rus...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Kremlin seeks more control over internet in Russia
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Russia is taking steps to tighten its grip on the internet within its borders, as the nation’s legislature advanced legislation this week that would test temporarily disconnec...
By LtCol Colin Smith
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Questions linger over Deripaska's Rusal influence after U.S. dealThe U.S. Treasury believes it can curb the influence of Oleg Deripaska over aluminum giant Rusal despite concerns the Russian oligarch may still be able to pull the strings of...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The US is withdrawing from a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. An arms race might be next.The Trump administration just announced it will officially withdraw from an aging nuclear missile treaty with Russia, a move that could kick-start an arms race and threaten th...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter’s notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a ...
By Victoria Nuland
