Mark Galeotti
Principal Director at Freelance
Contributing Editor at bne IntelliNews
Mayak Intelligence, @UCLSSEES, @RUSI_org, @IIR_Prague. Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to global crime. Views my own
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Mark Galeotti
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6 days ago |
spectator.co.uk | Mark Galeotti
There is an odd contradiction in Russian attitudes to the current negotiations with the United States. On the one hand, a sense that the window of opportunity may be closing, on the other no real rush to take advantage of it, or at least to offer Donald Trump any concessions to show willing.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Mark Galeotti
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), is in many ways an uncomfortable and ephemeral spy chief, but an enthusiastic information warrior. In recent talks with the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, he accused Nato of threatening Moscow and Minsk by increasing the size and activity of its forces on the border – or rather, certain nations within the alliance: We feel and see...
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3 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Mark Galeotti
Ever since Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone conversation with Vladimir Putin last month, Russia has been buzzing with speculation that Western companies which left the country after the 2022 invasion, especially US ones, will be returning. For some, this is a dream, for others a nightmare. Either way, it seems to be an overblown prospect fuelled by a refusal to accept just how toxic the Russian market will be for the foreseeable future.
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3 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Mark Galeotti
Ever since Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone conversation with Vladimir Putin last month, Russia has been buzzing with speculation that Western companies which left the country after the 2022 invasion, especially US ones, will be returning. For some, this is a dream, for others a nightmare. Either way, it seems to be an overblown prospect fuelled by a refusal to accept just how toxic the Russian market will be for the foreseeable future. Under the headline ‘Now Hello Again?
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The latest example of the Kremlin's attempt to present itself as an ally of the USA against an untrustworthy Europe - Nikolai Patrushev in Kommersant
In one of today's Russian papers a Kremlin hawk, known for his anti-Western rhetoric, calls for cooperation with America. What we learn from Nikolai Patrushev’s interview to Kommersant. #ReadingRussia https://t.co/PIw5i3SmTa
Easter Monday re-up: sadly, hardly the most peaceable of episodes, but instead how sharpening talk of '5th columnists' in the elite makes it relevant to think of the risk of a fascist turn in Russia...
In Moscow's Shadows 197: Russia's future fascist turn? Ultimately, I don't think Russia will succumb to full-blown fascism... but a recent upsurge in nationalist populism makes me think it is more possible than I would like https://t.co/3evD322KBo