Russia & Eurasia

Ambassador of Germany to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr is seen outside the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Germany is well placed to lead a tougher EU response to Russia

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Peaceful protests in Belarus. August 23, 2020

What’s driving mass protests in Belarus?

Steven Pifer and Adrianna Pita

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

(L-R) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, attend a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace after holding the Normandy Format Summit. Russia has expressed doubts that a planned Berlin summit to resolve the Ukraine conflict will in fact take place, with Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko saying Kiev has done little to fulfil agreements made at an earlier summit between the warring sides.

Ukraine, NATO, and Russia

Turkish Policy Quarterly Friday, September 4, 2020

People gather near lit candles arranged to read "Maidan" during a rally marking the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Ukrainian pro-European Union (EU) mass demonstrations, in Kiev, Ukraine November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Ukraine, then and now

Friday, September 4, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the Sirius Educational Center in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia February 15, 2019. Sergei Chirikov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Is Putin about to make a costly mistake in Belarus?

Friday, August 28, 2020

Deligates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool

Balancing act: Major powers and the global response to US-China great power competition

Fiona Hill, Tanvi Madan, Amanda Sloat, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Bruce Jones, Emilie Kimball, Jesse I. Kornbluth, and Ted Reinert

July 2020

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talk during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

On arms control, little reason for optimism

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Russian President Putin attends wreath laying ceremony to mark Defender of Fatherland Day at Tomb of Unknown Soldier by Kremlin wall in Moscow

Russia: Do we live in Putin’s world?

Fiona Hill, Arkady Ostrovsky, Sir Laurie Bristow, and Alexey Minyaylo

The Oxford Union

Friday, May 1, 2020

If there’s depressed demand for oil for many years to come, [that leaves] Putin looking forward to a pretty bleak decade for Russia.

Fiona Hill Politico Friday, April 24, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing protective gear walks at a hospital for patients infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia March 24, 2020. Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Putin’s not-so-excellent spring

Thursday, April 23, 2020