How the Traumas of 2004 Blinded Putin
A terrorist attack in 2004 shaped Vladimir Putin’s understanding of external actors and other countries. The influence can be felt even today.
· November 18, 2024
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Christopher Bort
Nonresident Scholar, Russia and Eurasia Program
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Chris Bort is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program. His research focus is on Russian foreign policy trends.
Chris Bort was the national intelligence officer (NIO) for Russia and Eurasia on the National Intelligence Council from 2017 to 2021. As NIO, he served as the senior subject matter expert on the region for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He also served as deputy NIO from 2010 to 2013. Chris Bort has been an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency specializing in political, social, and foreign policy developments in Eurasia since 1998, and has been a member of the CIA’s Senior Analytic Service since 2002. He has served in a variety of supervisory and analytic positions since joining the Intelligence Community in 1981. He has an MA in Russian language and literature from George Washington University, a BA from the University of Maryland, and is government-certified in six languages.
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Why the Kremlin Treats Its Own Citizens With Contempt
Russian leaders have historically placed their own ambitions above the rights of ordinary Russians, but it isn’t impossible that a post-Putin Russia could look different.
· May 12, 2022
Why The Kremlin Lies: Understanding Its Loose Relationship With the Truth
Russian leaders have used deception for strategic ends in ways that shed light on their geopolitical goals
· January 6, 2022
How the Kremlin Learned to Defeat Its Opposition
Russia’s September 2021 parliamentary elections demonstrated the lengths to which the Kremlin will go to crack down on opposition groups. Where did this strategy come from—and how far will the Kremlin take it?
· October 25, 2021