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An ethnic Armenian soldier fires an artillery piece during fighting with Azerbaijan's forces in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in this handout picture released September 29, 2020. Defence Ministry of Armenia/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT. PICTURE WATERMARKED AT SOURCE. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

No peacemakers for the new/old Caucasian war

Pavel K. Baev

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

U.S. special envoy Marshall Billingslea gestures as he speaks to the media after a meeting with Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergej Rybakow in Vienna, Austria June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Arms Control

Washington’s arms control delusions and bluffs

Steven Pifer

Monday, September 28, 2020

TechStream

The shifting chessboard of international influence operations

Sarah Kreps

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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Israel

The other tribe: Israel’s Russian-speaking community and how it is changing the country

Lily Galili

Monday, September 21, 2020

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel look into documents during the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

Foreign ministers attend the 26th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Bangkok, Thailand August 2, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Report

Global China: Regional influence and strategy

Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, and Emilie Kimball

July 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

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

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.

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

Pavel K. Baev

June 2020

Blog Posts

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TechStream

Podcast: Ben Nimmo on the return of the Internet Research Agency

Ben Nimmo, Alina Polyakova, and Quinta Jurecic

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (3rd L), Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), U.S. President Donald Trump (3rd R) and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) attend a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Order from Chaos

Spinning good news on arms control

Steven Pifer

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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

Order from Chaos

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

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, September 10, 2020

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Russia: Do we live in Putin’s world?

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

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Friday, May 1, 2020

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

Angela Stent and Adrianna Pita

Friday, January 17, 2020

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Order from Chaos

Highlights: Navigating US-Russia relations in 2020 and beyond

Jesse I. Kornbluth

Thursday, January 9, 2020

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