Timothy Snyder: Putin’s essay on Ukraine creates mythical history to cover foreign policy failures
Address by Timothy Snyder, Historian, Richard C. Levin Professor at Yale University, at the Kyiv Security Forum Good…
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China on the map of information warfare: Russia’s disciple and “big brother”
On June 14, the NATO summit identified two main threats facing the Alliance. These are Russia, which, according…
Russia has nothing to offer China except raw materials and empty words, Russian analyst says
Vladimir Putin’s flatfooted offer to China to combine Beijing’s plans for an east-west transit network with Russian hopes…
‘Russia’s dependency on China growing with each passing day,’ Felgenhauer says
Three days ago, Pavel Felgenhauer published in Moscow's Novaya gazeta an article headlined “The Dependence of Russia on…
China reopens Siberian river diversion debate that divided Soviet society before 1991
Beijing’s proposal for the diversion of part of the flow of rivers from the Altai inside the borders…
Russia to buy frigates from China
In a remarkable turnabout, Moscow is going to purchase specially modified naval frigates from Beijing, the result of…
China now building five frigates a year: Russia only one every ten
Last weekend, Beijing announced that its second aircraft carrier had begun sea trials, an especially disturbing development from…
‘If Kazakhstan and Russia suddenly ceased to be allies…’
Very public differences between Moscow and Astana and Kazakhstan’s increasingly close relations with the United States have prompted…
US, China have more in common than either has with Russia, regardless of leader’s feelings, Shelin says
However much Moscow suggests otherwise and however much inertia still leads others to share its conclusions, the United…
Russian fears about China’s aspirations east of the Urals on the rise
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing and Siberia has generated widespread attention to what Moscow may do to try…
Beijing ready to pump water out of Russia’s Lake Baikal for China’s domestic needs
The Chinese government says that it is prepared to build a 3,000-kilometer-long pipeline to carry water from Russia’s…
“Kremlin views Trump as ‘stupid, un-strategic, and manipulable,'” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Chinese question’ looks far more threatening in Siberia than in Moscow
Russians in Moscow and European Russia are concerned about the rise of China and the impact of this…
Chinese to become second largest ethnicity in Russia, Moscow demographer says
If current trends continue, with ever fewer immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus coming to Russia and…
Moscow’s Crimean Anschluss taught China it can do the same in Asia, Russian analyst says
The extent to which Vladimir Putin upended the international order by his illegal seizure of Crimea is becoming…
Deteriorating situation in Russian Far East becoming a disaster for Moscow
Five news stories over the past few days suggest that Moscow faces a set of disasters in the…
Why invade when you can buy? China already owns 80% of Russian region
Aleksandr Liventhal, the governor of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast, says that according to the data he has, “80…
“How many Putins are there?” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Collapse of Russian economy accelerates transfer of raw materials sector to China
Stories about the transfer of territory from Russia to China and the arrival of Chinese settlers in Siberia…
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The real reason why Putin annexed Crimea?
Chinese media are celebrating what has passed “almost unnoticed” in Russia: Moscow’s handing over of some 4.7 square…