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Russian Lawmakers Approve a Budget with a Record Amount Devoted to Defense Spending
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Record low unemployment, higher wages and targeted social spending should help the Kremlin ride out the domestic impact of pivoting the economy to a war footing but could pose...
By Richard Connolly
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Explosive Drones Are Everywhere In Ukraine. So the Infantry Head Underground, And Erect Screens.
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A Ukrainian FPV drone chasing down two Russian air-defenders speeding along on a motorbike. A Ukrainian drone watching a Russian infantry squad take shelter inside a wrecked a...
By Samuel Bendett
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As Kim Inspects Russia’s Military, Putin Cultivates ‘Axis of the Sanctioned’
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“I think it’s really serious,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, who previously led analyses of Russia by the U.S. intelli...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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‘Nothing left to lose’: Putin embraces role of spoiler with Kim Jong-un summit
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But there is an obvious logic to the Kremlin courting North Korea. It has ammunition that Russia needs to continue its war with Ukraine, where the Kremlin has had to ration it...
By Mike Kofman
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After death of Russia’s Wagner chief, what happens to his mercenary army?
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“Parts may be folded in under the Ministry of Defense, Russian intelligence, or to other oligarchs and leaders found more compliant, but none of those assets will wither at th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Charred wreckage, burning questions after Putin calls Prigozhin a ‘man of complicated fate’
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If Putin indeed ordered Prigozhin killed, the sheer brazenness of the act would probably deter would-be opponents, at least in the short term, said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a Ru...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle
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“The counteroffensive itself hasn’t failed; it will drag on for several months into the fall,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International...
By Michael Kofman
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Russia’s Fighter Jets Have Gone from Harassing Us Aircraft to Actually Breaking Them as Moscow Flexes Its Muscles Where It Still Can
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Russia sees its activities in Syria "as one area that really speaks to Russian global power and influence," Nicholas Lokker, an expert on Russian foreign policy at the Center ...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Could Putin Lose Power?
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Another former C.I.A. analyst, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, who was a deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia between 2015 and 2018 and now runs the Transatlanti...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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West to Putin: We hate you. Don’t go.
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At the moment, the lack of a clear successor, or the possibility of a violent warlord such as Prigozhin taking charge, leaves too many uncomfortable variables to openly root f...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘TikTok battalion’ seeks to replace Wagner in Ukraine
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Apti Alaudinov, commander of Kadyrov’s Akhmat battalion, said that his fighters had been deployed to Rostov to stave off the rebellion and came within 500 to 700 metre distanc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Failed Russian Mutiny Boosts Prospects for More US Arms to Ukraine
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With funds for Ukraine not expected to run out for months, some analysts say the more immediate concern is the outcome of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which is proving a diffic...
By Richard Fontaine
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Insights into Russia's Weekend of Instability
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Events over the weekend of June 24, 2023, unfolded quickly as reports came in that the Wagner Group Head Yevgeny Prigozhin had orchestrated an armed insurgency inside Russia. ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Nicholas Lokker, Michael Kofman & Richard Fontaine
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As revolt in Russia subsides, U.S. and allies brace for what comes next
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A weakened Putin could face challenges from the Russian elite, or inspire leaders in Russian regions such as Chechnya and Tatarstan, many of which have long-standing grievance...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Short-Lived Mutiny in Russia Sheds Light on Putin’s Hold on Power
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a longtime Russia intelligence analyst now at the Center for a New American Security, said the United States has limited capacity to influence events th...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Ukraine’s counteroffensive so far: steady gains, heavy losses
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Jim Townsend, an adjunct senior fellow in the Center for a New American Security’s Transatlantic Security Program, said Ukraine is moving through entrenched defenses and minef...
By Brad Dress
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Damage to Russian-held hydroelectric plant floods south Ukraine battlefield
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Michael Kofman, a Russian military analyst at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security, said he did not expect the dam breach to have a big impact on Ukraine’s ...
By Michael Kofman
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Russia Claims Bakhmut, but Some See a ‘Pyrrhic Victory’
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But a swift offensive by Ukrainian forces in the late summer and fall cleared Russia’s military out of Izium and out of a large chunk of Ukraine’s northeast. This removed the ...
By Michael Kofman
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As Putin Bides His Time, Ukraine Faces a Ticking Clock
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Mr. Putin has little incentive to end the war now, unless his hand is forced, because its continuation helps him retain power, said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia and Ukraine fight to control narrative, territory as war enters new phase
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Many of the troops fielded by both sides in the coming months will likely be seeing action for the first time in the war, Michael Kofman, a leading analyst of Russia's militar...
By Michael Kofman
