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Russian Troops in Final Stages of Readiness Add to Worries for Ukraine
While Russia is not yet capable of mounting a total invasion of Ukraine, portions of its army have reached full combat strength and appear to be in the final stages of readine...
By Michael Kofman
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The Situation on the Russia-Ukraine BorderAs Russia's troop build-up near its border with Ukraine raises alarm bells in Washington and across Europe, the Biden administration is consulting with allies and considering ...
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On a Quiet but Tense Corner of Russia's border, its Neighbors are Gaining on It
Thirty years ago, Russia's supremacy in the Caspian Sea was unquestioned. Even with the independence of new countries with their own navies in the early 1990s, Russia and its ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Report: China Is Hacking Russia, TooMuch has been made about the emerging relationship between China and Russia, two countries that the National Defense Strategy recognizes as near-peer competitors to the United...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Bionic arms and blue-eyed bots: How Russia aims to nurture a tech hub in its Far EastTo see Russia’s ambitions for its own version of Silicon Valley, head about 5,600 miles east of Moscow, snake through Vladivostok’s hills and then cross a bridge from the main...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Heavy-lifting Russian drones could resupply soldiers on future battlefieldsRostec, the massive Russian defense corporation, announced at the annual MAKS-2021 arms show in late July that it wants to make a better fleet of cargo drones, including one c...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russia’s Got A New Stealth Fighter—What’s It For?Russian plane-maker Sukhoi has developed a new single-engine stealth fighter. The jet, which Sukhoi apparently refers to as “Checkmate,” reportedly will make its debut at the ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Information Warfare Looms Larger in Russia’s New Security Strategy
The Russian government sees itself as increasingly vulnerable to foreign and domestic subversion, according to a July 3 update to the Kremlin’s 2015 national security strategy...
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Five things to watch on Biden's first foreign tripPresident Biden’s first international trip is intended to shore up alliances amid rising challenges to the United States from Russia and China. It comes after divis...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden picks Russia pro for key Pentagon post
President Joe Biden is set to nominate the chief executive of the U.S.-Russia Foundation and a former National Security Council official on Russia to be the assistant secretar...
By Jim Townsend
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The Sticking Points of the Biden-Putin Summit
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin need a great deal from one another. The American commander in chief must call his counterpart to account for ongoing R...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia's powerful Northern Fleet just got the first of a new class of submarines that has the US Navy worried
On May 7, the Russian Navy finally commissioned the Kazan, its first Yasen-M-class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine (SSGN). Kazan is the lead boat of a subclass descen...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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US ambassador to Russia warned senators that Biden administration risks repeating predecessors' mistakes in dealing with Putin
The day before the White House announced that President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin would hold their first in-person meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the US ...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia Is Working On A New Stealth Fighter It Probably Can’t Afford
Russian warplane-maker Sukhoi is developing a new stealth fighter, state media reported Wednesday. The single-engine, low-observable fighter would fly as fast as Mach 2, a com...
By Samuel Bendett
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Will Biden Blink Over Navalny?
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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Russia Is Accelerating Its Own Link-Everything Network
The United States isn’t the only major military power trying to digitally link all of its weapons and execute operations faster with artificial intelligence. Russia has been m...
By Samuel Bendett & Jeffrey Edmonds
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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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Defense / Transatlantic Security
80,000 Russian Troops Remain at Ukraine Border as U.S. and NATO Hold ExercisesRussia 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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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. RealityRussia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...
By Samuel Bendett
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Call for Applications | Wargaming with the Next Generation: A Russia Crisis Simulation
The CNAS Transatlantic Security and Defense programs today announced a call for applications for "Wargaming with the Next Generation: A Russia Crisis Simulation." The virtual ...