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Anton Barbashin on how Moscow is again trying to come up with new and nebulous euphemisms to justify imperial control
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Anton Barbashin delves into how Russia’s ambitions for Africa far outpace its capacity for concrete cooperation
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Anton Barbashin sifts through some of the vague and conflicting expert interpretations of Xi Jinping’s wartime trip to Russia
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Anton Barbashin on how the 21st of February marks another crossed rubicon of Russian history
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Anton Barbashin argues that Russia’s top foreign policy thinkers are split between moderate attitudes of ‘quit while you’re ahead' and hawkish views calling for further brinkmanship
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Anton Barbashin looks at what the Putin-Biden e-meeting has achieved for Ukraine, Russia and NATO
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Anton Barbashin looks into what’s motivating Russian military activity along the Ukrainian border
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Anton Barbashin digests the reaction of Russian experts to the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, taking stock of Macron’s talk of better ties with Russia as a thinly veiled means to forestall a rising China
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Anton Barbashin reviews Sergei Karaganov’s latest piece on the recent spate of protests in Moscow
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Russian foreign policy 5 years since Crimea
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Donald Trump’s words and actions show scant commitment to the ideas that bind the West. The American President is instead embracing a distinctly Russian lexicon and world view: That of an amoral, multipolar world defined by raw strength.
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By approving of Ivan Ilyin’s philosophy, the Russian state is effectively sugar coating a holder of bitterly fascist views
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The disintegration of the empire still goes on
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For Russian foreign policy strategists, the economy is neither so important, nor comprehensible