Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russians continue to support Vladimir Putin's "special operation" in Ukraine, but signs of fatigue among citizens and discontent in political and economic circles are emerging.
In the year of grinding battle since Russia invaded, innovations and foreign assistance in cybersecurity, crowdsourcing apps and geolocation have fortified Ukraine's defense.
Defense Priorities (DEFP) organized this symposium to stimulate thinking about the most important lessons learned from this ongoing war. Top experts, writing from a range of perspectives, share their insights in an effort to inform and improve U.S. policy.
The Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is visibly transforming into a full-fledged politician with his own views, which are nothing short of revolutionary.
A statement from Ukraine published on February 10 would imply that, for as long as Russia occupies and controls Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the plant will not generate any electricity, and that ZNPP will not be connected to Russia’s power grid.
Even if there were to be a sharp shock to the budget, there would be no threat to military or social spending, which are protected and would be the last to see cuts.
This is a war that could last for several years, could cost hundreds of and billions of dollars, many more causalities, and perpetuate a state of escalating risk in Europe.
The presence of these Russian monuments in a space devoid of the recognition of wartime atrocities committed against non-Serbs, makes Russia, within the context of the debate over memorialization and denial in Republika Srpska, an active participant in historical revisionism and genocide denial.
One of the key sociopolitical problems of Russian society is that seventy-year-old political leaders are deciding for young people how they will live and what they will die for.
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war grinds on. Early Russian advances were successfully rolled back, but intense fighting continues in the east, where a renewed Russian offensive looms.