Bennett Murray

Feb 28, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Joseph Roche |Charlotte Lawson |Bennett Murray |ERICA KOMISAR

BERDYCHIV, Ukraine—Vakha, 60, sits in a small kitchen of a Soviet-era apartment, chain-smoking cigarettes. Seated at a dusty table, he pours himself a glass of Coke. Next to him, on a small gas stove, Mikhael Dudadiev, 39, known by his war name Benor, is preparing zhizhig galnash, a traditional Chechen dish made of meat, pasta, and garlic sauce.

Jan 21, 2025 | sites.tufts.edu | Bennett Murray

Bennett Murray,  Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program,  Oleg Shakirov By Bennett Murray, MALD 2026 Candidate, The Fletcher SchoolCybersecurity researcher Oleg Shakirov spoke at Fletcher on October 9, 2024 about Russia’s cyber defenses amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Aug 23, 2024 | scmp.com | Bac Pham |Bennett Murray

Hanoi stockbroker Mai Xuan Huu is a member of Vietnam’s upwardly mobile middle class, whose fortunes are tightly bound to the country’s political stability – and economic growth that’s been averaging a brisk 4.5 per cent annually. But the 33-year-old now harbours concerns for his homeland, which has benefited in recent years from companies relocating their supply chains outside China to skirt US tariffs arising from the pair’s damaging trade war.

Jun 20, 2024 | scmp.com | Bac Pham |Bennett Murray

The restarting of an arms trade with Vietnam is expected to be high on the agenda for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hanoi on a rare trip abroad to the capital of an old Cold War ally. Putin arrived in the city on Thursday morning after visiting Pyongyang, where he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Feb 23, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Bennett Murray |Douglas A. Ollivant |Charlotte Lawson |Brian M. Riedl

DONETSK OBLAST, Ukraine—From a hillside front line trench south of the Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers watched tracers from the autocannon of a friendly BMP—the tracked infantry fighting vehicle that basically resembles a mini-tank—light up the enemy’s positions. The Russians, whose own trench was just 200 meters to the east, were unusually busy that morning as several three-man fire teams edged into no man’s land.