“Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say” “Reeling from an apparent security lapse that allowed … heavily-armed men to […]
Headlines
RUSSIALINK: “Russian Rights Chief Says Torturing Concert Attack Suspects ‘Inadmissible'” – Moscow Times
(Moscow Times – March 26, 2024) Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova has criticized the alleged violent detention of the four suspected gunmen in last […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Ukraine Needs from NATO: Advanced Weapons — and Clarity on What Membership Will Require” – Foreign Affairs: Ivo Daalder, Karen Donfried
“… Without new U.S. military assistance, Ukrainian ground forces may not be able to hold the line against a relentless Russian military. … The most […]
Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore The March 22 terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, in which more than 130 people […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia ‘spreading slurs against Princess of Wales'” – The Telegraph (UK)
“Whitehall figures fear hostile states have helped to fuel wild conspiracy theories in attempt to destabilise nation” “China, Russia and Iran are fuelling disinformation about […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
“… [T]he glaring failure of Putin’s security state to prevent the gruesome assault — despite the U.S. warning of March 7 that a strike on […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “For Putin, Even a Terrorist Attack Is a Chance to Spread Misinformation” – New York Times
“… In the past the Kremlin acknowledged its opponent and dealt ruthlessly with Islamist extremists. This time … Putin made no mention of the organization […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Ukraine obsession has blinded him to dangers at home” – Financial Times
“The Kremlin autocrat once wanted to align with the U.S. in fighting terrorism but is trapped in lies and paranoia” “… Today, Russia’s discourse seems […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Expect more strikes ‘deeper and deeper’ into Russia, Ukraine’s spy chief tells ABC News” – ABC
“Budanov was cagey talking about Ukraine’s responsibility for attacks in Russia.” “There will likely be further strikes into Russian territory … Budanov [said] … without […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.” – Christian Science Monitor
“While many Russians are trying to link Friday’s deadly terrorist attack to Kyiv, the more likely suspect is an older enemy: radical Islamists. Russia has […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Attack on Russian Concert Hall Threatens Putin’s Strongman Image” – WSJ
“Authoritarian system promised security. Now the Kremlin confronts Islamist terrorism at home and a costly war abroad.” “Last week, … Putin dismissed American warnings of […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine” – Washington Post 12.4.23
“… Top officials including Gen. Mark A. Milley, then chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukrainian […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Warned About Possible Moscow Attack Before Concert Hall Shooting; Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” -New York Times
“Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” “The U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert on March 7, warning […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries” – Financial Times
“Washington told Kyiv that drone attacks risk driving up crude prices and provoking retaliation” “… The repeated warnings from Washington [reportedly] were delivered to senior […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s European allies are either broke, small or irresolute; In search of the perfect partner to derail Russian aggression” – The Economist
“… Europeans should be in a position to deliver more than enough support to Ukraine. The 30 European countries that belong to NATO have, taken […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians Are Growing Tired of War; The people may cheer Putin, but they are increasingly resentful of the sacrifices he asks them to make.” – WSJ
“… Putin staked his campaign largely on the war, which he blames the West for provoking. …[T]he war’s negative effects are becoming hard to ignore. […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War” – Bloomberg
“Attacks on refineries have both symbolic and strategic goals Kyiv plans to send ever-increasing swarm of drones into Russia” “Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion has […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia is winning the global grain war; And it’s turning EU countries against Ukraine in the process.” – PoliticoEU
“The main reason … EU farmers can’t sell their … goods … has nothing to do with Ukraine and its huge agricultural sector. … [I]t […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia says it is pushing Ukrainian forces back, will create two new armies” – Reuters
“… Russia controls a little under one fifth of Ukraine and … Putin ordered troops to push further forward after Moscow took … Avdiivka …. […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Threat Forces Europe to Choose: Bolster Defense or Protect Social Spending” – WSJ
“With U.S. commitment to NATO uncertain, Europe faces a security rebuild that threatens budgets for other programs” “European countries are waking up to Russia’s danger […]
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Russia & Ukraine
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
“Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say” “Reeling from an apparent security lapse that allowed … heavily-armed men to […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Ukraine Needs from NATO: Advanced Weapons — and Clarity on What Membership Will Require” – Foreign Affairs: Ivo Daalder, Karen Donfried
“… Without new U.S. military assistance, Ukrainian ground forces may not be able to hold the line against a relentless Russian military. … The most […]
Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore The March 22 terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, in which more than 130 people […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
“… [T]he glaring failure of Putin’s security state to prevent the gruesome assault — despite the U.S. warning of March 7 that a strike on […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “For Putin, Even a Terrorist Attack Is a Chance to Spread Misinformation” – New York Times
“… In the past the Kremlin acknowledged its opponent and dealt ruthlessly with Islamist extremists. This time … Putin made no mention of the organization […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Ukraine obsession has blinded him to dangers at home” – Financial Times
“The Kremlin autocrat once wanted to align with the U.S. in fighting terrorism but is trapped in lies and paranoia” “… Today, Russia’s discourse seems […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Expect more strikes ‘deeper and deeper’ into Russia, Ukraine’s spy chief tells ABC News” – ABC
“Budanov was cagey talking about Ukraine’s responsibility for attacks in Russia.” “There will likely be further strikes into Russian territory … Budanov [said] … without […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.” – Christian Science Monitor
“While many Russians are trying to link Friday’s deadly terrorist attack to Kyiv, the more likely suspect is an older enemy: radical Islamists. Russia has […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Attack on Russian Concert Hall Threatens Putin’s Strongman Image” – WSJ
“Authoritarian system promised security. Now the Kremlin confronts Islamist terrorism at home and a costly war abroad.” “Last week, … Putin dismissed American warnings of […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine” – Washington Post 12.4.23
“… Top officials including Gen. Mark A. Milley, then chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukrainian […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Warned About Possible Moscow Attack Before Concert Hall Shooting; Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” -New York Times
“Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” “The U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert on March 7, warning […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries” – Financial Times
“Washington told Kyiv that drone attacks risk driving up crude prices and provoking retaliation” “… The repeated warnings from Washington [reportedly] were delivered to senior […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians Are Growing Tired of War; The people may cheer Putin, but they are increasingly resentful of the sacrifices he asks them to make.” – WSJ
“… Putin staked his campaign largely on the war, which he blames the West for provoking. …[T]he war’s negative effects are becoming hard to ignore. […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War” – Bloomberg
“Attacks on refineries have both symbolic and strategic goals Kyiv plans to send ever-increasing swarm of drones into Russia” “Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion has […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine needs 500,000 military recruits. Can it raise them?” – Financial Times
“Ahead of a new mobilisation law, exhausted soldiers on the frontline complain of low morale” “… A new [Ukrainian] mobilisation law — due to be […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
“As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
“Raising specter of nuclear confrontation allows Russian leader to keep his population on edge and convinced of need for militarism, analysts say.” “… Putin warned […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
“What survives of the mainstream press prides itself on delivering the anti-Trump message. … Anti-Trumpism is the gift that briefly arrested their decline, though the […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
“A false narrative is being peddled by the Kremlin and its Western friends.” “… Russia has never been a major market for EU firms, with […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
“Before the French Parliament debates support for Kyiv on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, in an interview with Le Monde and BFMTV, reacts to Macron’s statement […]
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Academia
RIP: Roger Kanet
Subject: RIP: Roger Kanet Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 From: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle@illinois.edu> When I joined the Law Faculty here in August of 1978, […]
Statement Condemning Scholars’ Support for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
(PONARS Eurasia (George Washington University) – March 11, 2022) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which we condemn in the harshest possible terms, continues to wreak carnage in […]
“The Russia Program at the George Washington University is a data-driven analytical center that combines knowledge, technologies, and networks into a research ecosystem.”
(The George Washington University – Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies – ieres.elliott.gwu.edu/ – The Russia Program – therussiaprogram.org) The Russia Program The Russia […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The State of Russian Studies in the United States: 2022” – ASEEES
The State of Russian Studies in the United States: 2022 [Excerpt] [Click here for full text PDF] An Assessment by the Association for Slavic, East […]
PONARS EVENT: “Political Reforms and Transitional Justice for Postwar Russia: Evidence from In-depth Interviews with Russian Wartime Migrants”
with Dr. Mikhail Turchenko (Indiana University) Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, 4pm to 5pm Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons Room 602, 1957 E […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “A critical look at Russian studies in the U.S.” – Meduza
“In a new piece for VoxUkraine that’s been circulating on Twitter, economists Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Ilona Sologoub, and Tatyana Deryugina make the case for a ‘major […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Interview – Marlene Laruelle” – E-International Relations
“… Q: Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field? I see a lot of exciting debates happening in the fields […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ivy league profs turn on each other after Columbia economist claims Ukraine war could be ‘next Afghanistan’; The letter claims Jeffery Sachs propagates ‘the Kremlin’s narratives'” – Fox
“… [H]undreds of economics professors signed on to an open letter to Columbia University Professor Jeffery Sachs, arguing the Ivy League economist has pushed Russian […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Announcing the Decolonization in Focus Seminar Series” – Harvard University/ Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
“… This year’s In Focus series will be devoted to decolonizing Slavic studies. Why does it matter and what does it look like? How will […]
ANNOUNCEMENT & EVENT: GW Launches New Russia Studies Program
War on Ukraine Drives Creation of New Research Program That Rethinks How We Study, Talk About, and Engage with Russia
Russian Research Center: Sic transit gloria mundi!
From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2023 To: Rosenberg, John S. <john_rosenberg@harvard.edu> Subject: Russian Research Center: Sic transit gloria mundi! It’s pretty pathetic! […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies” – Foreign Policy/ Artem Shaipov, Yuliia Shaipova
“Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?” “… Russia’s nature as an imperial […]
Videos
Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
“Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say” “Reeling from an apparent security lapse that allowed … heavily-armed men to […]
Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore The March 22 terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, in which more than 130 people […]
U.S.-Russian Relations, U.S.-Ukrainian Relations
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
“Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say” “Reeling from an apparent security lapse that allowed … heavily-armed men to […]
Europe, EU
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
“Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say” “Reeling from an apparent security lapse that allowed … heavily-armed men to […]
China
Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore The March 22 terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, in which more than 130 people […]
Oil, Gas, Energy
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War” – Bloomberg
“Attacks on refineries have both symbolic and strategic goals Kyiv plans to send ever-increasing swarm of drones into Russia” “Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion has […]
Nuclear, Missile Defense
Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore The March 22 terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow, in which more than 130 people […]
Environment
JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia no longer perceived as top security threats, research finds” – CNBC
“China and Russia are considered less of a threat to Western populations now than a year ago, according to a new study which points to […]
Spies, Spy Allegations
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
“… [T]he glaring failure of Putin’s security state to prevent the gruesome assault — despite the U.S. warning of March 7 that a strike on […]
Space
Russia in Review, Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 7 Things To Know Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) Valerii Zaluzhnyi on Jan. […]
Arctic
JRL NEWSWATCH: “How viable is Arctic shipping? Russia is investing in the region” – The Economist
“Shipping lanes are under pressure. Seven of the world’s ten biggest shipping companies have suspended transit through the Red Sea, where the Houthis … are […]
Cybersecurity
Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore “Russia’s ability to absorb military losses, its deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and the limitations of its […]
Population Disaster, Demographics
Russia’s Ruthless Renaissance
(Kennan Institute – wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute – Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University; Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, PhD candidate, Department of Communication Studies, University […]
Media, Internet
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
“Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say” “Reeling from an apparent security lapse that allowed … heavily-armed men to […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia ‘spreading slurs against Princess of Wales'” – The Telegraph (UK)
“Whitehall figures fear hostile states have helped to fuel wild conspiracy theories in attempt to destabilise nation” “China, Russia and Iran are fuelling disinformation about […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t defund the fight against Russia and China’s disinformation” – Washington Post
“Two authoritarian U.S. adversaries, Russia and China … carry[] out what some … call[] a ‘hidden war on democracy,’ attempting to shape global opinion using […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Braced for Russian Disinformation Attacks on Zelenskiy” – Bloomberg
“Kremlin campaign to focus on legitimacy as vote scrapped Ukrainian leader sensitive over issue as war footing shifts” “… With … Ukrainian territory under Russian […]
Central Asia
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.” – Christian Science Monitor
“While many Russians are trying to link Friday’s deadly terrorist attack to Kyiv, the more likely suspect is an older enemy: radical Islamists. Russia has […]
Belarus
Russia in Review, Feb. 23-March 1, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 7 Things to Know Vladimir Putin used his annual address to the Russian parliament to not only rattle his nuclear saber at […]
Assassinations, Assassination Attempts, Beatings, Threats
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
“… Russia’s liberals … walk[] a tightrope. Their opposition to the war puts them at odds with much of their own society …. [M]any Ukrainians […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life” – New York Times
“The Russian authorities vilified the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny with a viciousness that suggested he was more influential than Moscow would admit. Little has […]
Human Rights
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
“… [T]he glaring failure of Putin’s security state to prevent the gruesome assault — despite the U.S. warning of March 7 that a strike on […]
Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's
JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
“Russia’s presidential election appears largely a rote exercise, as a popular, unchallengeable leader faces only nominal competition from three ‘systemic’ opponents. The Kremlin has worked […]
Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
“… [T]he glaring failure of Putin’s security state to prevent the gruesome assault — despite the U.S. warning of March 7 that a strike on […]
Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime
RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
(Moscow Times – Lucy Birge – March 15, 2024) The killing of Alexei Navalny four weeks before the Russian presidential election appears to portray an […]
Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
“DJ: Comments on ’20 Days in Mariupol’? You can see it here: youtu.be/gvAyykRvPBo“ “Watch the Academy Award®-winning FRONTLINE/AP documentary in which Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov […]
Religion
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Christmas Moves to Dec. 25 in Ukraine, Another Rebuff of Russia” – New York Time
“The Ukrainian Orthodox Church formally changed the main date for the festivities, departing from the Russian tradition of celebrating on Jan. 7, according to the […]
Recent Posts
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West” – WSJ
- RUSSIALINK: “Russian Rights Chief Says Torturing Concert Attack Suspects ‘Inadmissible'” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Ukraine Needs from NATO: Advanced Weapons — and Clarity on What Membership Will Require” – Foreign Affairs: Ivo Daalder, Karen Donfried
- Russia Analytical Report, March 18-25, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia ‘spreading slurs against Princess of Wales'” – The Telegraph (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Moscow Terror Attack; Coming just days after Putin’s orchestrated election, will it endanger his legacy — and his future?” – The Nation
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “For Putin, Even a Terrorist Attack Is a Chance to Spread Misinformation” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Ukraine obsession has blinded him to dangers at home” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Expect more strikes ‘deeper and deeper’ into Russia, Ukraine’s spy chief tells ABC News” – ABC
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Attack on Russian Concert Hall Threatens Putin’s Strongman Image” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Miscalculations, divisions marked offensive planning by U.S., Ukraine” – Washington Post 12.4.23
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Warned About Possible Moscow Attack Before Concert Hall Shooting; Pro-Moscow forces had dismissed the alert as an attempt to scare Russians.” -New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s European allies are either broke, small or irresolute; In search of the perfect partner to derail Russian aggression” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russians Are Growing Tired of War; The people may cheer Putin, but they are increasingly resentful of the sacrifices he asks them to make.” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Drone Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries Mark New Phase in War” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia is winning the global grain war; And it’s turning EU countries against Ukraine in the process.” – PoliticoEU
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia says it is pushing Ukrainian forces back, will create two new armies” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian Threat Forces Europe to Choose: Bolster Defense or Protect Social Spending” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t defund the fight against Russia and China’s disinformation” – Washington Post
- State Department: “On Russia’s Presidential Elections”
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Americans Still See China as Nation’s Top Foe, Russia Second” – Gallup
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine needs 500,000 military recruits. Can it raise them?” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How can democracies respond to rigged elections?” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
- Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow hopes frozen assets swap scheme will benefit Russian stocks” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
- West Mistakenly Thinks Russia in Terminal Decline While Moscow Elites Even More Wrongly Believe They can Restore Russia’s Superpower Status, Pastukhov Says
- RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Pointed to War’s Economic Windfall With Russia Set to Vote” – Bloomberg
- RUSSIALINK: “Russia Bans Entry to 227 Americans for ‘Anti-Russian’ Actions” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The drama in Russia’s election is all about what Putin will do with another 6 years in power” – AP
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Forever Putinism: The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession” – Foreign Affairs
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Russian Elite in a Frenzy Over Their Political Futures” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Plays Down Threat of Nuclear War” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not so quiet; A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front” – The Economist
- 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War; Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.” – Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine scrambles to fill U.S. funding gap” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Pumping Out Weapons—but Can It Keep It Up?” – WSJ
- VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
- RUSSIALINK: “’20 Days in Mariupol’ Brings First Oscar Home to Ukraine” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow plans its own mini-Olympics. Will Russians be satisfied?” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Big Lesson From the West’s Last Invasion of Russia” – Foreign Policy: Theodore Bunzel
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mutual Frustrations Arise in U.S.-Ukraine Alliance” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Burning Up Its Future” – Foreign Affairs
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe is at last adjusting to the new reality in Ukraine” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Enters New Phase of War With Russia: Dig, Dig, Dig” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Free Boris Kagarlitsky: The Nation joins the global appeal for his release” – The Nation: Katrina Vanden Heuvel
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia; To Prevail, Washington Must Revive Containment” – Foreign Affairs: Max Bergmann, Michael Kimmage, Jeffrey Mankoff, Maria Snegovaya
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t seize: capitalise; How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine; Exploit them to the full, but legally” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Sending troops to Ukraine: A necessary but badly presented debate” – Le Monde
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s losses on the battlefield could make the war more dangerous for Russia” – CNBC
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance” – Washington Post
- Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken: “On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland”
- Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Can No Longer Hesitate on Ukraine” – Foreign Policy: Alexander Vershbow
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years After Russia Invaded Ukraine: Q&A with RAND Experts” – RAND
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Braced for Russian Disinformation Attacks on Zelenskiy” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Six-Year Manifesto Sets Sights Beyond Ukraine” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Russia in Review, Feb. 23-March 1, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s resilience to sanctions shows it is ‘costly and unattainable’ to isolate a large and globally integrated economy, economist says” – Business Insider
- The War in Ukraine in a Transitional World Order
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Sees Risk of Russia Breaking Through Defenses by Summer” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Frontline Is Collapsing” – Newsweek
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Navalny’s Funeral to Be Held on Friday, Spokeswoman Says” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin propagandists attack director of new ‘Master and Margarita’ film captivating Russians” – The Telegraph (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Ukraine, Russia Is Inching Forward Death by Death” – New York Times:
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years On, What’s Next in Ukraine? Eight thinkers shed light on the state of the war” – Foreign Policy
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Experts analyze state of Ukraine war 2 years into Russia’s invasion [Michael Kofman, John Mearsheimer and Rebeccah Heinrichs]” – PBS
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘There’s only Plan A’: Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine” – Politico
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-Ukraine War: China’s Vanishing Neutrality” – The Diplomat
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two years on, is Ukraine’s military faltering?” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine?” – WSJ
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: The Two-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine” – CSIS
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky Says 31,000 Ukrainian Troops Killed in Two Years of War” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “A War Putin Still Can’t Win” – Foreign Affairs
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Deepening Fog of War” – New York Times
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Meet the Press [interview with Jake Sullivan]” – NBC
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “State Dept. official [Victoria Nuland]: If Putin wins Ukraine, tyrants ‘will get hungry’ with aspirations” – PBS
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Already Lost” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Unveils Biggest Sanctions Package on Russia Since War Began” – Bloomberg
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelenskyy appeals to Trump, Congress to see ‘tragedy’ of Russia invasion in exclusive Bret Baier interview” – Fox
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leadership Change in Russia: Contingency Planning Memorandum” – Council on Foreign Relations: Liana Fix, Maria Snegovaya
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Unpredictable Strongman? Two Years Into War, Putin Embraces the Image.” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “To Seek Peace in Ukraine, Remember the End of the Cold War” – The Nation
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “After two years of war, Russia finds itself frozen, but transformed” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Biggest Ever Sanctions Have Failed to Halt Russia’s War Machine” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “2024 ASEEES CONVENTION THEME: Liberation” – Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Seizing Frozen Russian Assets Over Ukraine War Wins Endorsement of Legal Experts” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine” – Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Does the West’s Ukraine policy need a reality check?” – Brookings
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “No One Wants Ukraine to Win; Trump opposes the aid package, while Biden never calls for an outright victory.” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine war has cost Russia up to $211 billion, Pentagon says” – Defense News
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Military Spy Chief Says Russia Will Struggle to Keep Up the Fight” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian victories shake global leaders’ faith in Ukraine war prospects” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Despair in Russia as Putin Spirals Out of Control” – Daily Beast
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Avdiivka, Longtime Stronghold for Ukraine, Falls to Russians” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Putin Threatens, Despair and Hedging in Europe” – New York Times
- Like Hitler Before Him, Putin has Had to Go to War to Try to Save His Regime — but He Won’t Succeed, El Murid Says
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden, lawmakers hammer Ukraine aid holdouts after Navalny death” – Politico
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir the Poisoner of Underpants; What Navalny’s death means for Russia, Putin and the world” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “With Navalny’s death, Russia’s opposition loses its last leader” – Christian Science Monitor
- Russia in Review, Feb. 9-15, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Says He Prefers Biden Over Trump. Commentators Are Skeptical.” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What would a NATO war with Russia look like? How the UK is rehearsing” – The Times (UK)
- UKRAINELINK: “A Long War Made Longer by the West’s Unaddressed Mistakes” – Kennan Institute: Victor Andrusiv
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Battle for Avdiivka tests Ukraine’s new commander” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Means for the War in Ukraine” – Council on Foreign Relations
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why NATO Needs Ukraine: Kyiv’s Survival and Europe’s Security Depend on a More Unified Front” – Foreign Affairs: Alina Polyakova, James Goldgeier
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia no longer perceived as top security threats, research finds” – CNBC
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s Obsession With History Led Him to Start a War” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky’s Military Shake-Up Ties Him to Battlefield Performance” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Military Balance 2024” – International Institute for Strategic Studies
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Seeks Revenge on a World Order He Once Wanted to Join” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “IMF warns that any action on Russian assets needs ‘sufficient legal support'” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian justice tested as collaboration cases mount” – AFP
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Siberian shipyard workers brave freezing cold for ‘the hardest job in the world'” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSLINK: “Russia in Review, Feb. 2-9, 2024” – Russia Matters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Former CIA Analyst Issues Warning to Zelensky” – Newsweek
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Hours of Unchallenged Propaganda From Putin” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine sacks its top soldier” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “National Security Expert Fiona Hill Says Russia ‘Will Always Matter’ at HKS Event” – The Harvard Crimson
- RUSSIALINK: “‘The Master and Margarita’: From Favorite Novel to Blockbuster Film” – Moscow Times
- De-Centering Russia
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump, Putin, Carlson and the Shifting Sands of Today’s American Politics” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in rambling interview, barely lets Tucker Carlson get a word in” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Poll Sends Worrying Message to Zelensky” – Newsweek
- Filtering the News: Why Russians Prefer Propaganda and Shield Themselves from Independent Reporting
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Peace in Ukraine; What a Ukraine peace deal might look like.” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Tucker Carlson Has Interviewed Putin in Moscow, Kremlin Says” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Zelensky, Facing Rising Challenges, Touts Leadership Overhaul” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s war economy going; That holds future lessons for America” – The Economist
- RIP: Roger Kanet
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany Braces for Decades of Confrontation With Russia” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Klitschko hits out against Zelensky’s ‘plan to reset’ top team” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What is Russia’s role in the Israel-Gaza crisis?” – Fiona Hill, Kevin Huggard
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Valery Zaluzhny about to be fired?” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Adaptation Advantage” – Foreign Affairs: Mick Ryan
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledges to shake up Ukraine’s leadership” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Tomorrow: Five scenarios for Russia’s future” – Atlantic Council: Casey Michel
- Russia in Review, Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 2024
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Washington Must Do for Kyiv Between Now and November” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s army chief: The design of war has changed” – CNN
- Russia’s Ruthless Renaissance
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. and Germany Push to Delay Ukraine NATO Membership Invite; Ukraine and its Eastern European allies want the invite to come soon, but Washington and Berlin are wary.” – Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “EU Leaders Agree to $54 Billion Ukraine Aid Package as Hungary’s Orban Backs Down” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russia Stopped Ukraine’s Momentum; A Deep Defense Is Hard to Beat” – Foreign Affairs: Stephen Biddle
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s birthrates are plummeting. The next generation needs a plan.” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition” – Foreign Affairs: William J. Burns
- “Full-scale Invasion”
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine says it uncovers mass fraud in weapons procurement” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to replace Ukraine’s top general” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO Has Been Underestimating Russia’s War Machine, Estonia Says” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long sold arms to Iran. Now Iran is returning the favor.” – Christian Science Monitor
- Russia, the West and the ‘World Majority’
- Ukraine Can Win a War of Attrition
- RUSSIALINK: “Kremlin Denies Putin Sending Signals to U.S. for Ukraine Peace Talks” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky comes up empty-handed in Davos as he faces financial war hell” – New York Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Real Reason Thousands Are Fleeing Conscription in Ukraine” – The Daily Beast
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “UK must train citizens for war with Russia, says army chief” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “EU unlikely to confiscate Russian central bank assets – officials” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s War Fuels a Wage Spiral That Threatens Army Recruitment” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s $30 Billion Problem: How to Keep Fighting Without Foreign Aid” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine war drives shift in Russian nuclear thinking – study” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “A century after Lenin’s death, the USSR’s founder seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia” – AP
- Cursed land: About a radically pessimistic scenario for Russia and the whole world
- After A Frosty Reception, Tbilisi’s Wartime Russians Are Beginning To Leave
- Zelensky Signs Decree on Russian Territories ‘Historically Inhabited’ by Ukrainians
- Ukraine and West Can’t Count on Collapse of Russia’s Military-Industrial Sector as a Result of Sanctions, Inozemtsev Says
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is Losing the Drone War; How Kyiv Can Close the Innovation Gap With Russia” – Foreign Affairs: Eric Schmidt
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The U.S. plan to break Russia’s grip on nuclear fuel” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia” – The Hill
- Russia in Review, Jan. 12-19, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Active defence’: how Ukraine plans to survive 2024” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Protests in Russia Put Spotlight on Wartime Ethnic Grievances” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How viable is Arctic shipping? Russia is investing in the region” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Desperate Hour: The World Needs a Russian Defeat” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Grabbing $300 billion of Russian assets is no panacea, West cautions in Davos” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Rules Out Nuclear Arms Talks With US Over Ukraine Support” – Bloomberg
- Unfulfillable Promise: Mediation Efforts in the Russian-Ukrainian War since 2014
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “With ‘God’s-eye view,’ secretive surveillance flights keep close watch on Russia and Ukraine” – AP
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine foreign minister muses about ‘punching’ Russia’s Lavrov” – Reuters