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Biden’s Goal With Putin: Don’t Let U.S.-Russia Ties Worsen
In The News
President Joe Biden has a modest goal when he sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva this week: make sure the U.S.-Russia relationship doesn’t get any worse...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Will Biden Blink Over Navalny?
In The News
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced the long-awaited meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which will be held ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Strongmen who got cozy with Trump get the cold shoulder from Biden
The Biden administration has zinged Russia and China over human rights and alleged thuggery against their neighbors, cut off some arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and stiff-armed T...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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80,000 Russian Troops Remain at Ukraine Border as U.S. and NATO Hold Exercises
Russia has withdrawn only a few thousand troops from the border with Ukraine, senior Biden administration officials said, despite signals from Moscow last month that it was di...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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China and Russia Turn Deeper Ties into a Military Challenge for Biden
Deepening military and diplomatic cooperation between Russia and China is worrying U.S. defense planners, who fear the two frenemies that share military technology and many fo...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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U.S. Slaps Wide-Ranging Sanctions on Moscow—but Stops Short of Killer Blow
The Biden administration announced a sweeping package of sanctions on Russia on Thursday, including further restrictions on Moscow’s ability to tap capital markets and fresh d...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Biden administration imposes significant economic sanctions on Russia over cyberspying, efforts to influence presidential election
In The News
The Biden administration on Thursday imposed the first significant sanctions targeting the Russian economy in several years in order to punish the Kremlin for a cyberespionage...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Edward Fishman
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Is Russia Preparing to Go to War in Ukraine?
In The News
Russia’s military buildup near the border of Ukraine continued this week, deepening global concern about Moscow’s ultimate intentions as senior Russian officials and state med...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Beijing Continues Its Steady But Uneven Rise In the World
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior officials touted China’s ascent at the political gathering, setting up declared victories at home over the coronavirus and extrem...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia, China tensions rise with White House
In The News
Relations between the United States and Russia and China under President Biden are getting off to a difficult and hostile start.Biden this week agreed with an interviewer’s as...
By Lisa Curtis & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Hostility rises between Biden, Putin
In The News
President Biden is not holding back in confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a killer and promising tough action against a range of attacks by the Kremlin ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Biden’s Plan to Link Arms With Europe Against Russia and China Isn’t So Simple
Two weeks after President Biden’s inauguration, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke publicly about the importance of dialogue with Moscow, saying that Russia is a part ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Moscow Isn’t New Delhi’s Pal
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With border tensions between India and China at their worst in decades, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh headed late last month to a familiar destination: Moscow. There M...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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A New Chapter in Fraught Ties Between President, Spies
In The News
President Trump’s combative relationship with U.S. intelligence agencies has made it difficult for officials to speak candidly to him or the public about national security thr...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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White House does not plan any immediate response over intelligence reports on Russian bounties targeting U.S. troops
In The News
The White House is not planning an immediate response to intelligence reports of Russian bounties given to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition forces in Afghan...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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What’s This Unit of Russian Spies That Keeps Getting Outed?
In The News
On Friday, the New York Times broke the explosive story that a unit of Russia’s military intelligence—Unit 29155 of the GRU—had allegedly offered bounties to militants in Afgh...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Unquiet on the Western Front: Why the 74-Year Alliance Between Europe and America Is Falling Apart
In The News
When German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas suggested during a June 15 video conference between 28 European Union diplomats and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the U.S. and Eu...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Americans losing faith in elections as Trump discredits voting systems
In The News
The diatribes are as unnerving and unrelenting as they are untrue: An incumbent president warning that the nation’s voting systems are cauldrons for fraud and ripe for rigging...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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For Europe's strongmen, pandemic is opportunity and risk
In The News
Europe's strongmen leaders want to use the coronavirus pandemic to tighten their grip while touting their prowess in overcoming crises, but their authority risks being badly u...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Scores Pandemic Propaganda Triumph With Medical Delivery to U.S.
In The News
As top American officials bash the Russian government for spreading disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump is accepting a supply of medical eq...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
