BBC(Europe)December 30, 2015
Gunmen have shot and killed one person and wounded 11 others at the Derbent citadel in Dagestan, a Unesco World Heritage site in the North Caucasus.
A tourist group was attacked on Tuesday night outside the fortress in Derbent, one of Russia’s most ancient towns.
the nationNovember 16, 2017
At an international summit in Vietnam last week, President Trump took necessary steps to reduce the perils of the new Cold War with Russia. Liberal Democrats call it “treasonous.”
Paul Robinson(IRRUSSIANALITY)December 29, 2015
Professor Paul Robinson examines an article by Dan Healy, the Director of St Antony’s Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, entitled ‘Irreconcilable Foes? LGBT Russians and their government?’
According to Robinson it contains an interesting lesson about Russian democracy.
OSU OriginsNovember 16, 2017
Russia’s cooperation with the Kurds of Iraq and Syria in the fight against ISIL has been widely publicized by the Western media. However, less well-known is the fact that Russia’s relations with various Kurdish groups date back almost two centuries.
Staff writer(Al-Arabiya)December 29, 2015
Russia has released dramatic images of what officials claim to be a successful strikes targeting ISIS’s oil-smuggling tankers in northern Syria, without being more specific on their location.
“We’ve attacked many terrorist bases, hits were identified on targets and much damage was caused to the terrorist infrastructure,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement this week following the release of the footage.
Grayzone ProjectNovember 16, 2017
As the government’s crusade against Russian meddling widens, it appears increasingly like a pretext for online surveillance, ramped up securitization of social media and the suppression of dissent.
L Todd Wood(Wash. Times)December 29, 2015
The Russian Defense Ministry is accusing the Pentagon of fighting the Islamic State in ‘word only’ after the U.S. military refused to share targeting and intelligence information with Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Pentagon spokeswoman Michelle Baldanza recently said the U.S. would not “cooperate with Russia on Syria until they change their strategy of supporting Assad and instead focus on ISIL.”
the nationNovember 15, 2017
Stigmatizing Russian broadcasting is the latest unnecessary escalation in the new Cold War.
David Smith(Guardian)December 28, 2015
A ship carrying 25,000lb (11,000kg) of low-enriched uranium left Iran for Russiaon Monday, marking one of the most vital steps yet in a high-stakes deal to deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
“I am pleased to report that we have seen important indications of significant progress towards Iran completing its key nuclear commitments under the deal,” Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Grayzone ProjectNovember 15, 2017
So who is Watts, and how did he emerge seemingly from nowhere to become the star congressional witness on Russian meddling? Dubious expertise, impressive salesmanship.
John Pepper(Pepperspectives/ACEWA)December 28, 2015
ACEWA Founding Board Member and former Procter and Gamble CEO John Pepper has written an eloquent analysis of the civilizational dangers confronting us as we enter 2016: Ian Kershaw’s magisterial new history of Europe, 1914-1949,”To Hell and Back” reminds us that during the 40 year period from 1914 to 1945 Europe came close to “self-destruction” in two World Wars and an economic depression that cost over 50 million lives.
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TNINovember 15, 2017
Both Russia and the United States undertook major tests of their respective nuclear forces at the end of October 2017.
Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel(Reuters/Yahoo)December 28, 2015
In spite of the repeated claims by the likes of facile Washington Post reporters that Russia is “not turing the tide” in Syria, Reuters reports that: Three months into his military intervention in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved his central goal of stabilizing the Assad government and, with the costs relatively low, could sustain military operations at this level for years, U.S. officials and military analysts say.
Boston GlobeNovember 14, 2017
Today NATO systematically confronts Russia with troop movements, arms buildups and maneuvers near Russian borders. At the same time, it supports American “out-of-area” wars in places like Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Turkey has no interest in joining either of those projects. It feels no obligation to do so. That certifies its effective withdrawal from NATO.
Stephen F Cohen(John Batchelor Show)December 24, 2015
Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. Cohen argues that 2015 witnessed the crumbling of the US-led post-1991 international world order, many of the changes, for better or worse, pivoting around the New Cold War. While media attention is currently focused on the conflict over Syria and the Islamic State, Cohen points out that the political epicenter of the Cold War remains in Ukraine.
politicoNovember 13, 2017
As part of a new joint statement on Syria between the U.S. and Russia, the two countries have agreed that Syria must eventually hold U.N.-supervised elections to bring new leadership to the country as part of the process of ending its multiyear civil war, according to two senior State Department officials.
ACEWA Board Members(NYU - Jordan Center)December 24, 2015
On Nov 23rd ACEWA Founding Board Members Stephen F. Cohen, Bill Bradley, Jack Matlock, John Pepper and William vanden Heuvel took part in a panel discussion at the Jordan Center at NYU on the topic: “US-Russia Conflict from Ukraine to Syria: Did US Policy Contribute To It?” And…Happy Holidays from The American Committee for East-West Accord.
the nationNovember 13, 2017
Katrina vanden Heuvel reports on the dedication of Russia’s monument to victims of the Gulag on the Start Making Sense podcast.
John Mearsheimer(University of Chicago)December 23, 2015
Given in September 2015, a lecture by University of Chicago Professor John J. Mearsheimer on the origins of the Ukraine Crisis.
TACNovember 13, 2017
One need not be a Putin apologist to note that the United States was itself engaged in a program of instigation, one that ultimately induced a hostile—but arguably defensive—Russian response.