Steven Pifer

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference following the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Putin’s disaster in Ukraine

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer at a position on a front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine August 1, 2022. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

Russia, Ukraine, and the decision to negotiate

Monday, August 1, 2022

FILE PHOTO: NATO flag is seen during NATO enhanced Forward Presence battle group military exercise Silver Arrow in Adazi, Latvia October 5, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

One. More. Time. It’s not about NATO

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Pool

U.S.-Russia relations, one year after Geneva

Thursday, June 16, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A view of the flags of Finland, NATO and Sweden during a ceremony to mark Sweden's and Finland's application for membership in Brussels, Belgium, May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool/File Photo

NATO-Russia: It’s time to suspend the Founding Act

Daniel Fried and Steven Pifer

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Image of a nuclear warhead

Why Putin’s betrayal of Ukraine could trigger nuclear proliferation

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

A serial code of the unexploded Russian missile on the outskirt of the separatist region of Donetsk (Donbas). Ukraine's Donetsk (Donbas) region is under heavy attack from the Russian troops. The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on February 24, the war has killed thousands civilians and soldiers. (Photo by Alex Chan Tsz Yuk / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The Russia-Ukraine war: A setback for arms control

Monday, May 23, 2022

People stand amid newly-made graves at a cemetery in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the settlement of Staryi Krym outside Mariupol, Ukraine May 22, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

The Russia-Ukraine war at three months

Monday, May 23, 2022

Russian service members during a parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022. President Vladimir Putin told Russian soldiers in his speech that they are fighting for the same thing their fathers and grandfathers did as he used his Victory Day speech to justify his invasion of Ukraine.

A Victory Day update on the Russia-Ukraine war

Angela Stent, Steven Pifer, Amy J. Nelson, and James Goldgeier

Monday, May 16, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Region, Russia April 12, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

Belarus has good reason for concern over Putin’s nuclear intimidation

Tuesday, May 10, 2022