Åslund and other Russia watchers have previously said that the economy will be unable to sustain the war on Ukraine for much longer. For instance, Russia already can’t manufacture certain weapons at a high enough rate to replace battlefield losses and is dipping into ...
NATO allies agreed in 2014, after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, to halt the spending cuts they had made after the Cold War and move toward spending 2% of their GDPs on defense by 2024. In response, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told CBS News in a statement Saturday nig...
Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the West slapped a raft of sanctions on Russia unseen since the days of the Cold War. As election season looms in Russia, the domestic packaging industry is facing a unique set of challenges, with analysts warning of a mounting labor ...
Stunning new details emerged Friday on the largestprisoner swapsince the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West belonged to its security services — and the children of a Russian couple posing as spies only learned their t...
journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War. Espionage cases often take months to handle and the unusual speed at which his trial was held behind closed doors - Friday's hearing was only the third in the trial - has stoked ...
By Reuters | April 2, 2024, at 9:58 a.m. Save More Russian Billionaires See Collective Wealth Near $600 Billion - Forbes More Reuters Lukoil Chief Executive Vagit Alekperov talks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outsi...
violence and political unrest, the Russian Revolution paved the way for the rise ofcommunismas an influential political belief system around the world. It set the stage for the rise of the Soviet Union as a world power that would go head-to-head with the United States during theCold War. ...
Plans reportedly are underway to equip the Western and Central Military Districts with Kinzhal missiles by 2024 (Izvestia Citation2021; TASS Citation2021j). The Kinzhal was used in combat for the first time in March 2022 during the war in Ukraine, and Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu ...
s grip on power and quell anti-war sentiment. The March 2024 presidential election was more a stage-managed “bureaucratic exercise” than a free and fair election. As Russians continue to live under Putin’s dictatorial rule and as the ruinous nature of Russia’s war on Ukraine continues t...
Cuba and Russia — Cold War allies now both under severe U.S. sanctions — have strengthened their political and economic ties in recent years, particularly as Moscow aims to boost diplomatic support for its war in Ukraine and Havana seeks whatever economic assistance it can get. ...