The “Moscow Project,” is a spin effort that surfaced as a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It’s led by Neera Tanden, a self-described “loyal solider” for Clinton who also runs the Center for American Progress.
HuffPoMay 15, 2017
The “Moscow Project,” is a spin effort that surfaced as a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It’s led by Neera Tanden, a self-described “loyal solider” for Clinton who also runs the Center for American Progress.
TNIMay 15, 2017
Misdirection is a fairly simple task for sophisticated cyber operators, who can spoof identifies, mask their locations, borrow or steal malware developed by others, writes George Beebe, a former chief of Russia analysis at the CIA and special advisor to Vice President Cheney on Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Stratfor(Geopolitical Diary)July 28, 2015
Since the Ukrainian crisis started nearly 18 months ago, two negotiation formats in particular stand out among numerous talks and meetings. The first is the Minsk talks between representatives from the Ukrainian government, the pro-Russia separatists and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which address the conflict on a tactical level. The other is the Normandy talks between representatives from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France, which consider the conflict on a broader, political level. Notably absent from both talks…is the United States.
NYTMay 15, 2017
The State Department would no doubt benefit from certain reforms. But putting America’s diplomats on a starvation diet is not the way to do it.
DAVID SPEEDIE, Nicolai Petro(Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs)July 27, 2015
David Speedie, the director of the program on U.S. Global Engagement at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, talks to Dr. Nicolai Petro, professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, and a specialist in Russia and its neighboring states. Petro has previously served in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Read it here.
Sam Sokol May 12, 2017
In the latest of a series of highly public antisemitic statements by prominent figures in Ukraine, a retired Ukrainian general affiliated with the country’s intelligence services this week called for the destruction of his country’s Jewish community.
Pietro Shakarian(Reconsidering Russia)July 27, 2015
Scholar and Reconsidering Russia blogger Pietro Shakarian interviews Dr. Halyna Mokrushyna on the state of democracy in Ukraine today. Dr. Mokrushyna holds a PhD in linguistics and an MA in communication. She is also currently enrolled in the PhD program in sociology at the University of Ottawa and is a part-time professor. Her doctoral research deals with the memory of Stalinism and the Stalinist purges in Ukraine.
TNIMay 12, 2017
At this point, Pyongyang might trust Moscow more than it trusts Beijing.
TACMay 12, 2017
A quarter-century after the Cold War, we remain committed to 60-year-old Cold War alliances to defend scores of nations on the other side of the world. Consider some of the places where America collides today with nuclear powers: the DMZ, the Senkakus, Scarborough Shoal, Crimea, the Donbass.
Dan Kovalik(Huffington Post)July 24, 2015
ACEWA Founding Board Member Stephen F. Cohen suggests, in this, the second installment of his wide-ranging interview with the Huffington Post’s Dan Kovalik, that American policymakers should try and adopt a foreign policy that seeks to engage, rather than to simply criticize, the Russian government.
Paul Robinson(IRRUSSIANALITY)July 23, 2015
Professor Paul Robinson notes that while both sides of the Ukrainian civil war have stubbornly denied culpability for civilian casualties, “What is perhaps surprising is the willingness of outsiders to let people get away with it. Neither Russia nor the West have shown any notable inclination to force their proxies to be more honest. Rather they seem to encourage the tendency to claim that others are at fault. It seems that the desire to maintain an ally’s image outweighs the desire for the truth.”
TNRMay 11, 2017
Louise Mensch is experienced in three areas: Writing chick lit, marrying famous music managers, and quitting a political career. Notice that Russian politics is not one of these areas.
TNIMay 11, 2017
The U.S.-Russia relationship is starved for normalcy.
john batchelor showMay 10, 2017
Princeton and NYU Professor Emeritus Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. Cohen emphasizes that while VE (Victory in Europe) Day – a major American holiday, on May 8, when he was growing up in Kentucky – is no longer observed, Victory Day, on May 9, remains the most sacred Russian holiday, a “holiday with tears.”
Katrina vanden Heuvel(Washington Post)July 22, 2015
The nuclear agreement with Iran provides ample proof of Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s remarkable commitment and skill in waging diplomacy. In an era when the Pentagon dominates our foreign policy and military options are too often trotted out as first responses, he has resuscitated the United States’ power to lead, pressure and negotiate, a capacity too often denigrated as “soft power.”
No good deed goes unpunished.
TNIMay 9, 2017
As George F. Kennan once noted, the average citizen who reads the New York Times knows as much, or even more, than many government officials. Comey made claims on the order of stating that Russia is the “greatest threat” to the United States. It isn’t the job of the FBI director to indulge in geopolitical analysis. Anyway, how would he know?
TNIMay 9, 2017
Sally Yates didn’t reveal much that was new in her testimony to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. But she has arguably invented an entirely new genre of political spectacle: the news remix. Taking elements already well known to the public, Yates added a personal touch of drama and defiance, and the result was a fresh spate of headlines.
TNIMay 8, 2017
Resurgent anti – Russia hysteria has broader, ominous implications for US foreign policy and the health of political discourse in the United States.
Paul J. Saunders(Al-Monitor)July 22, 2015
Will the success of US-Russian cooperation in reaching a major agreement on Iran’s nuclear program create a new opportunity — and new momentum — for a political solution to Syria’s seemingly unending civil war? Both Washington and Moscow appear to be leaving the door open. But walking through it will not be easy.
IrrussianalityMay 8, 2017
There is a foreign land so threatened by its neighbour that it requires Canadian troops to defend it, and so dangerous within its borders, so full of traps and snares, that it isn’t safe for those Canadian troops to leave their bases other than in large, organized groups. The country? Latvia.