Russia

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

China

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

A missile being fired out to sea from a mobile launch vehicle reportedly on the southern coast of Iran along the Gulf of Oman during a military exercise. Iran test-fired a "new generation" of cruise missiles on June 18, the navy said, in the first such military exercises since 19 sailors were killed last month in a friendly fire incident. The armed forces' website published pictures of the exercises in the Gulf of Oman showing missiles being fired from a warship and the back of a truck, and a vessel exploding out at sea. A statement said both short- and long-range missiles were test-fired, some reportedly hitting targets at a distance 280 kilometres (174 miles) away. Gulf of Oman, Iran, June 18, 2020. Photo by SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM

Order from Chaos

Unattainable conditions for New START extension?

Steven Pifer

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Party members, employees of at Tidal Star Group, use mobile phones during a weekly group study in an app Xuexi Qiangguo, which literally translates as 'Study to make China strong', at their party activity room in Beijing, China, February 25, 2019. Picture taken February 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee

TechStream

Podcast: Laura Rosenberger on Chinese information operations

Laura Rosenberger, Alina Polyakova, and Quinta Jurecic

Monday, June 22, 2020

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, wearing protective face masks amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), discuss a recent armed conflict between representatives of transportation companies in the town of Brovary, during a meeting in Kiev, Ukraine May 29, 2020. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

What does COVID-19 mean for Ukraine’s frontlines?

Steven Pifer

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Reports

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) toasts with Chinese President Xi Jinping while congratulating him on his birthday before the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan June 15, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS.

Report

The limits of authoritarian compatibility: Xi’s China and Putin’s Russia

Pavel K. Baev

June 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping look on during a signing ceremony in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Report

Russia and China: Axis of revisionists?

Angela Stent

February 2020

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcome France's President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2020

Thursday, January 23, 2020

People pass the East Side Gallery close to river Spree during sunset in Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1E5D992B80

Essay

German lessons

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, November 4, 2019

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens during a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1BBB443CF0

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – October 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Blog Posts

MOSCOW, RUSSIA- President Vladimir Putin held a video conference meeting with participants of the national campaign "We Are Together" in Moscow, Russia on June 26, 2020. "The coronavirus epidemic in Russia is on the decline", Putin declared this Friday (26). "Now, thanks to God, the epidemic is receding, and the volume of tasks that volunteers must complete begins to decrease little by little," said the Russian leader during a meeting with the participants of the "We Are Together" initiative that covered the entire territory of the country. The president stressed that the Russian volunteers "carried out their work successfully" and also announced that the NGOs that help people in precarious situations managed to raise some 1,800 million rubles (almost 25.9 million dollars) for people affected by the pandemic.

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: Is Russia avoiding blame and getting by on the cheap?

Steven Pifer

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A passenger is seen through a window of a tram, which drives past a banner spread out by Greenpeace activists during a protest against the arrival of "Mikhail Dudin" cargo ship reportedly carrying nuclear wastes from Germany in Saint Petersburg, Russia November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

Order from Chaos

Don’t resume nuclear testing

Steven Pifer

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Riot police protect members of the Ku Klux Klan from counter-protesters as they arrive to rally in opposition to city proposals to remove or make changes to Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

TechStream

Deen Freelon on why black trolls matter

Deen Freelon, Evelyn Douek, and Quinta Jurecic

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

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Defending NATO’s eastern flank: A conversation on Russia with Estonia’s minister of defense

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Russia

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with head of the Federal Taxation Service Mikhail Mishustin in Sochi, Russia November 20, 2018. Picture taken November 20, 2018. Sputnik/Alexey Nikolskiy/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Podcast Episode

What does Putin’s government shakeup mean for his role in Russia?

Angela Stent and Adrianna Pita

Friday, January 17, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC1455EA2DC0

Order from Chaos

Highlights: Navigating US-Russia relations in 2020 and beyond

Jesse I. Kornbluth

Thursday, January 9, 2020

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