The main Russian event of 2018 was President Vladimir Putin’s re-election for another six-year ... ... modernization — including a continued buildup of forces stationed along the border with Ukraine in order to give Moscow more instruments for intervening in the course of the... ... programs have effectively been pushed back to the mid-2020s or even beyond 2027.
In Syria, Putin will keep trying to convert the military success of the Russian intervention...
A series of Russian civil-military concepts can create great benefits for Europe, the Middle East ... ... Stockholm. The participation of Danes, Poles, and Germans is welcome, but not required.
Ukraine
Minsk agreements are fine, but one of the reasons they have not worked in practice... ... All these are secondary and solvable, issues, once the above hard-points are solved.
Syria
Andrey Kortunov:
Russia: the Power Broker in the Middle East?
If it is at all...
Relations between the U.S. and Russia appear to be almost at the point of no return
Relations ... ... that directly impact domestic politics and popular attitudes. Accusations of interference in the electoral systems raise questions ... ... include security concerns and disputes revolving around NATO and European Union enlargement, Russian actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, as well as the nature of the conventional and nuclear ... ... Then, in early April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military had allegedly ...