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Aug 8, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Aleksandra Srdanovic |Ivan Kurilla |Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan
This analysis was originally posted on Mick Ryan's Substack and is reprinted here with the author's permission. In a 1973 lecture, Sir Michael Howard described the impact of surprise, and the necessity of military institutions to prepare their people to absorb, and adapt around, surprises on the battlefield and beyond.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Ivan Kurilla |Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan |RM Associates
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of his country in February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with Western countries to leave Russia.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Ivan Kurilla |Aleksandra Srdanovic |Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan
In a February 2024 interview with Russian state television, President Vladimir Putin commented that he would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced and predictable than Donald Trump. Was he telling the truth, lying or telling the truth so everyone would think he was lying?
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan |RM Associates
Moreover, the two times Levada asked Russians whether it was Russia or Ukraine that was more interested in peace talks, the share of respondents who pointed to their country exceeded the share of those who pointed to Ukraine. In June 2023, 17% of Levada’s Russian respondents said Ukraine was more interested in peace talks, while 38% of these respondents said Russia was more interested, and 30% said both countries were equally interested.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Mary Dejevsky |Olga Kiyan |RM Associates |Kate Davidson
The Labour Party, which is set to take power in the U.K. after the General Election on July 4, has campaigned under the slogan “Time for Change.” While there are many areas where Labour’s leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is eyeing change, policy toward Russia and Ukraine will not be among them.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Olga Kiyan |RM Associates |Kate Davidson |Raphael J. Piliero
June 20, 2024 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s post-inaugural reshuffles have created ripples in the pool of potential successors. Promoted to the rank of a vice premier, Dmitry Patrushev, son of ex-secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, has been highlighted as a contender, as has Aleksey Dyumin, whom Putin has just made his assistant responsible for Russia’s sprawling defense industry.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Conor Cunningham |William Alberque |Olga Kiyan |Simon Saradzhyan
“Does Russia still matter?” That was the central question of a recent discussion with leading American national security expert Fiona Hill, hosted by Russia Matters and moderated by Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University, and former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Olga Kiyan |Robert Legvold |Conor Cunningham |Karen Donfried
Russia’s presidential election, whose outcome is near certain to grant Vladimir Putin a fifth term, got underway on March 15. Given the inevitability of Putin’s victory in what one Kremlin-connected insider has described as a “well-designed simulation,” one might wonder what impact the Russian election has on the U.S. and its allies. We asked some leading Western experts on Russia whether the election matters to the U.S. and its allies and, if so, how.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Olga Kiyan |Robert Legvold |Conor Cunningham
On March 13, President Vladimir Putin granted an interview, in which he again delved into the conditions under which he says he would initiate the use of nuclear weapons. His remarks were so ambiguous that it caused mainstream Western media organizations—which tend to agree on what to emphasize in news out of the Kremlin—to put divergent headlines on the news stories that they ran about this particular interview. “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Is Less Strident on Nuclear War.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Olga Kiyan |Robert Legvold |Alex Horton |Conor Cunningham
Can Ukraine hold the line in 2024? That would be the best-case scenario—according to John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago professor and one of the leading proponents of “restraint” in American foreign policy. Interviewed on a recent episode of the “Daniel Davis Deep Dive” podcast, Mearsheimer has claimed that he considers “ridiculous” the idea that Ukraine will be able to take the offensive in 2024 or 2025.
