“As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend […]
Headlines
Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – RM Staff – March 15, 2024) Russia’s presidential election, whose outcome is near certain to grant Vladimir Putin a fifth […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
“Raising specter of nuclear confrontation allows Russian leader to keep his population on edge and convinced of need for militarism, analysts say.” “… Putin warned […]
West Mistakenly Thinks Russia in Terminal Decline While Moscow Elites Even More Wrongly Believe They can Restore Russia’s Superpower Status, Pastukhov Says
(Paul Goble – Window On Eurasia – Staunton, Mar. 11, 2024) Many of the mistakes Western elites have made about Russia and that Moscow elites […]
RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
(Moscow Times – Lucy Birge – March 15, 2024) The killing of Alexei Navalny four weeks before the Russian presidential election appears to portray an […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Pointed to War’s Economic Windfall With Russia Set to Vote” – Bloomberg
“Wages are soaring, unemployment falling amid labor shortage Budget deficit, dwindling reserves pose long-term challenges” “… Though the war has left hundreds of thousands killed […]
RUSSIALINK: “Russia Bans Entry to 227 Americans for ‘Anti-Russian’ Actions” – Moscow Times
(Moscow Times – March 14, 2024) [Complete list: mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1938555/] Russia has banned entry to 227 U.S. citizens, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow announced Thursday. The […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The drama in Russia’s election is all about what Putin will do with another 6 years in power” – AP
“… [Russian] voting … conclud[ing] … Sunday is all but certain to allow Putin to remain in office until 2030, giving him a full three […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know” – New York Times
“[Russia’s] presidential vote … begins Friday and lasts through Sunday … but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum. … Putin, 71, will undoubtedly win […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Forever Putinism: The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession” – Foreign Affairs
“… Early-stage Putinism was marked by … public complacency and indifference. Complacency flourished when the Russian economy expanded between 2000 and 2008 … enabling the […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
“Russia’s presidential election appears largely a rote exercise, as a popular, unchallengeable leader faces only nominal competition from three ‘systemic’ opponents. The Kremlin has worked […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
“What survives of the mainstream press prides itself on delivering the anti-Trump message. … Anti-Trumpism is the gift that briefly arrested their decline, though the […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Russian Elite in a Frenzy Over Their Political Futures” – Bloomberg
“The government may feature new names and responsibilities, but there’s no sign Putin plans to alter the direction of policy.” “The Kremlin elite is feverishly […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
“A false narrative is being peddled by the Kremlin and its Western friends.” “… Russia has never been a major market for EU firms, with […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Plays Down Threat of Nuclear War” – New York Times
“The Russian leader struck a softer tone in an interview with state television than in last month’s state-of-the-nation address. He is aiming to project stability […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
“Before the French Parliament debates support for Kyiv on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, in an interview with Le Monde and BFMTV, reacts to Macron’s statement […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not so quiet; A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front” – The Economist
“The Russians want to take Robotyne. But while the ammo lasts, Ukraine can hold them off.” “… In the wake of the fall of Avdiivka […]
2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence March 11, 2024 Director Avril D. Haines Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War; Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.” – Foreign Policy
“… Despite the tedium of Putin’s two-hour-long lecture about an imaginary Russian and Ukrainian history, the streaming and promotion of the [Tucker Carlson] interview by […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine” – New York Times
“For a few weeks in October 2022, the White House was consumed in a crisis whose depths were not publicly acknowledged at the time. It […]
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Russia & Ukraine
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
“As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
“Raising specter of nuclear confrontation allows Russian leader to keep his population on edge and convinced of need for militarism, analysts say.” “… Putin warned […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
“What survives of the mainstream press prides itself on delivering the anti-Trump message. … Anti-Trumpism is the gift that briefly arrested their decline, though the […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
“A false narrative is being peddled by the Kremlin and its Western friends.” “… Russia has never been a major market for EU firms, with […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
“Before the French Parliament debates support for Kyiv on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, in an interview with Le Monde and BFMTV, reacts to Macron’s statement […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not so quiet; A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front” – The Economist
“The Russians want to take Robotyne. But while the ammo lasts, Ukraine can hold them off.” “… In the wake of the fall of Avdiivka […]
2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence March 11, 2024 Director Avril D. Haines Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine” – New York Times
“For a few weeks in October 2022, the White House was consumed in a crisis whose depths were not publicly acknowledged at the time. It […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine scrambles to fill U.S. funding gap” – Financial Times
“Kyiv in talks with Japan and Canada for extra aid as Zelenskyy government considers spending cuts and tax hikes” “… [D]eadlock in … Congress over […]
VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
“DJ: Comments on ’20 Days in Mariupol’? You can see it here: youtu.be/gvAyykRvPBo“ “Watch the Academy Award®-winning FRONTLINE/AP documentary in which Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov […]
RUSSIALINK: “’20 Days in Mariupol’ Brings First Oscar Home to Ukraine” – Moscow Times
(Moscow Times – March 11, 2024) Ukraine won its first Oscar for best documentary with “20 Days in Mariupol,” directed by Mstyslav Chernov, on Sunday […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Big Lesson From the West’s Last Invasion of Russia” – Foreign Policy: Theodore Bunzel
“What the Allied intervention in the Russian civil war teaches us about Ukraine today.” “… Despite the current pall of pessimism pervading Western capitals, today’s […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mutual Frustrations Arise in U.S.-Ukraine Alliance” – New York Times
“Ukrainian officials are disheartened about stalled aid. The Pentagon wants Kyiv to heed its advice on how to fight.” “… For the Pentagon, the exasperation […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
“… Russia’s liberals … walk[] a tightrope. Their opposition to the war puts them at odds with much of their own society …. [M]any Ukrainians […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t seize: capitalise; How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine; Exploit them to the full, but legally” – The Economist
“… About €190bn of [Russian] assets are controlled in Belgium by Euroclear, a custodian. … [I]nvestment returns and principal repayments it would pass on to […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s losses on the battlefield could make the war more dangerous for Russia” – CNBC
“Russia’s advantage on the battlefield could prompt Ukraine’s backers to give it more of what it wants, and needs, to win the war. Defense analysts […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance” – New York Times
“… Sparse, rudimentary trench lines [reportedly] populate the area west of Avdiivka that Ukraine is trying to defend …. lack[ing] many of the additional fortifications […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance” – Washington Post
“Even as he promises … that Ukraine will handle the fighting if given needed weapons and other support, … Zelensky and … top military commanders […]
Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore “Russia’s ability to absorb military losses, its deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and the limitations of its […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Can No Longer Hesitate on Ukraine” – Foreign Policy: Alexander Vershbow
“Allies must provide Kyiv with what it needs to win the war and secure the peace: arms supplies and a path to NATO membership.” “… […]
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Academia
RIP: Roger Kanet
Subject: RIP: Roger Kanet Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 From: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle@illinois.edu> When I joined the Law Faculty here in August of 1978, […]
Statement Condemning Scholars’ Support for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
(PONARS Eurasia (George Washington University) – March 11, 2022) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which we condemn in the harshest possible terms, continues to wreak carnage in […]
“The Russia Program at the George Washington University is a data-driven analytical center that combines knowledge, technologies, and networks into a research ecosystem.”
(The George Washington University – Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies – ieres.elliott.gwu.edu/ – The Russia Program – therussiaprogram.org) The Russia Program The Russia […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “The State of Russian Studies in the United States: 2022” – ASEEES
The State of Russian Studies in the United States: 2022 [Excerpt] [Click here for full text PDF] An Assessment by the Association for Slavic, East […]
PONARS EVENT: “Political Reforms and Transitional Justice for Postwar Russia: Evidence from In-depth Interviews with Russian Wartime Migrants”
with Dr. Mikhail Turchenko (Indiana University) Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, 4pm to 5pm Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Family Commons Room 602, 1957 E […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “A critical look at Russian studies in the U.S.” – Meduza
“In a new piece for VoxUkraine that’s been circulating on Twitter, economists Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Ilona Sologoub, and Tatyana Deryugina make the case for a ‘major […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Interview – Marlene Laruelle” – E-International Relations
“… Q: Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field? I see a lot of exciting debates happening in the fields […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ivy league profs turn on each other after Columbia economist claims Ukraine war could be ‘next Afghanistan’; The letter claims Jeffery Sachs propagates ‘the Kremlin’s narratives'” – Fox
“… [H]undreds of economics professors signed on to an open letter to Columbia University Professor Jeffery Sachs, arguing the Ivy League economist has pushed Russian […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Announcing the Decolonization in Focus Seminar Series” – Harvard University/ Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
“… This year’s In Focus series will be devoted to decolonizing Slavic studies. Why does it matter and what does it look like? How will […]
ANNOUNCEMENT & EVENT: GW Launches New Russia Studies Program
War on Ukraine Drives Creation of New Research Program That Rethinks How We Study, Talk About, and Engage with Russia
Russian Research Center: Sic transit gloria mundi!
From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2023 To: Rosenberg, John S. <john_rosenberg@harvard.edu> Subject: Russian Research Center: Sic transit gloria mundi! It’s pretty pathetic! […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies” – Foreign Policy/ Artem Shaipov, Yuliia Shaipova
“Why has it taken a war of conquest for experts to recognize Russia’s nature as a vast imperial enterprise?” “… Russia’s nature as an imperial […]
Videos
Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
“As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend […]
Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Pointed to War’s Economic Windfall With Russia Set to Vote” – Bloomberg
“Wages are soaring, unemployment falling amid labor shortage Budget deficit, dwindling reserves pose long-term challenges” “… Though the war has left hundreds of thousands killed […]
U.S.-Russian Relations, U.S.-Ukrainian Relations
Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – RM Staff – March 15, 2024) Russia’s presidential election, whose outcome is near certain to grant Vladimir Putin a fifth […]
Europe, EU
Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – RM Staff – March 15, 2024) Russia’s presidential election, whose outcome is near certain to grant Vladimir Putin a fifth […]
China
2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence March 11, 2024 Director Avril D. Haines Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the […]
Oil, Gas, Energy
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
“A false narrative is being peddled by the Kremlin and its Western friends.” “… Russia has never been a major market for EU firms, with […]
Nuclear, Missile Defense
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
“Raising specter of nuclear confrontation allows Russian leader to keep his population on edge and convinced of need for militarism, analysts say.” “… Putin warned […]
Environment
JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia no longer perceived as top security threats, research finds” – CNBC
“China and Russia are considered less of a threat to Western populations now than a year ago, according to a new study which points to […]
Spies, Spy Allegations
2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence March 11, 2024 Director Avril D. Haines Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the […]
Space
Russia in Review, Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 7 Things To Know Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) Valerii Zaluzhnyi on Jan. […]
Arctic
JRL NEWSWATCH: “How viable is Arctic shipping? Russia is investing in the region” – The Economist
“Shipping lanes are under pressure. Seven of the world’s ten biggest shipping companies have suspended transit through the Red Sea, where the Houthis … are […]
Cybersecurity
Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Ideas to Explore “Russia’s ability to absorb military losses, its deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and the limitations of its […]
Population Disaster, Demographics
Russia’s Ruthless Renaissance
(Kennan Institute – wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute – Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University; Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, PhD candidate, Department of Communication Studies, University […]
Media, Internet
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Braced for Russian Disinformation Attacks on Zelenskiy” – Bloomberg
“Kremlin campaign to focus on legitimacy as vote scrapped Ukrainian leader sensitive over issue as war footing shifts” “… With … Ukrainian territory under Russian […]
VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelenskyy appeals to Trump, Congress to see ‘tragedy’ of Russia invasion in exclusive Bret Baier interview” – Fox
“Volodymyr Zelenskyy says there have been at least 5 assassination attempts made against him” “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an exclusive FOX News interview, appealed […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Means for the War in Ukraine” – Council on Foreign Relations
“… But it wasn’t getting bogged down in historical minutiae that most hurt Putin’s case. He undermined his claim to be ready for practical diplomacy […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s Obsession With History Led Him to Start a War” – WSJ
“Long-winded, often factually erroneous arguments back his conviction that Russia has a historic right to Ukraine” “[In his] two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson … Putin […]
Central Asia
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s war economy going; That holds future lessons for America” – The Economist
“… [M]ore than three dozen countries … slapped economic sanctions on Russia … unprecedented in … scope for a target of its size, covering energy […]
Belarus
Russia in Review, Feb. 23-March 1, 2024
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 7 Things to Know Vladimir Putin used his annual address to the Russian parliament to not only rattle his nuclear saber at […]
Assassinations, Assassination Attempts, Beatings, Threats
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
“… Russia’s liberals … walk[] a tightrope. Their opposition to the war puts them at odds with much of their own society …. [M]any Ukrainians […]
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life” – New York Times
“The Russian authorities vilified the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny with a viciousness that suggested he was more influential than Moscow would admit. Little has […]
Human Rights
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
“As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend […]
Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's
JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
“Russia’s presidential election appears largely a rote exercise, as a popular, unchallengeable leader faces only nominal competition from three ‘systemic’ opponents. The Kremlin has worked […]
Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus
Russia in Review, Nov. 17-21, 2023
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org) 3 Things to Know In the past month, Russian forces have gained 16 square miles of Ukrainian territory, while Ukraine gained […]
Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime
RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
(Moscow Times – Lucy Birge – March 15, 2024) The killing of Alexei Navalny four weeks before the Russian presidential election appears to portray an […]
Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
“DJ: Comments on ’20 Days in Mariupol’? You can see it here: youtu.be/gvAyykRvPBo“ “Watch the Academy Award®-winning FRONTLINE/AP documentary in which Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov […]
Religion
JRL NEWSWATCH: “Christmas Moves to Dec. 25 in Ukraine, Another Rebuff of Russia” – New York Time
“The Ukrainian Orthodox Church formally changed the main date for the festivities, departing from the Russian tradition of celebrating on Jan. 7, according to the […]
Recent Posts
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?” – The New Yorker
- Expert Survey: Does Russia’s Presidential Election Matter to U.S. and Its Allies?
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Rattled Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections” – WSJ
- West Mistakenly Thinks Russia in Terminal Decline While Moscow Elites Even More Wrongly Believe They can Restore Russia’s Superpower Status, Pastukhov Says
- RUSSIALINK: “What’s the Kremlin Scared Of? Pro-War Ultranationalists” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Pointed to War’s Economic Windfall With Russia Set to Vote” – Bloomberg
- RUSSIALINK: “Russia Bans Entry to 227 Americans for ‘Anti-Russian’ Actions” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The drama in Russia’s election is all about what Putin will do with another 6 years in power” – AP
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Forever Putinism: The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession” – Foreign Affairs
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russian elections became a futile exercise for Putin’s opposition” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump and Ukraine: Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Russian Elite in a Frenzy Over Their Political Futures” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong” – Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Plays Down Threat of Nuclear War” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Your children are not going to die in Ukraine'” – Le Monde
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Not so quiet; A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front” – The Economist
- 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community [Excerpt re: Russia]
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Is Still Oblivious to Russia’s Information War; Paralyzed by free speech concerns, Western governments are loath to act.” – Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine scrambles to fill U.S. funding gap” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Pumping Out Weapons—but Can It Keep It Up?” – WSJ
- VIDEO: “20 Days in Mariupol”
- RUSSIALINK: “’20 Days in Mariupol’ Brings First Oscar Home to Ukraine” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow plans its own mini-Olympics. Will Russians be satisfied?” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Big Lesson From the West’s Last Invasion of Russia” – Foreign Policy: Theodore Bunzel
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Mutual Frustrations Arise in U.S.-Ukraine Alliance” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Is Burning Up Its Future” – Foreign Affairs
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s opposition and Ukraine find it impossible to unite against Putin” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Europe is at last adjusting to the new reality in Ukraine” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Enters New Phase of War With Russia: Dig, Dig, Dig” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Free Boris Kagarlitsky: The Nation joins the global appeal for his release” – The Nation: Katrina Vanden Heuvel
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia; To Prevail, Washington Must Revive Containment” – Foreign Affairs: Max Bergmann, Michael Kimmage, Jeffrey Mankoff, Maria Snegovaya
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Don’t seize: capitalise; How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine; Exploit them to the full, but legally” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Sending troops to Ukraine: A necessary but badly presented debate” – Le Monde
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s losses on the battlefield could make the war more dangerous for Russia” – CNBC
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance” – Washington Post
- Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken: “On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland”
- Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 26-March 4, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The West Can No Longer Hesitate on Ukraine” – Foreign Policy: Alexander Vershbow
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years After Russia Invaded Ukraine: Q&A with RAND Experts” – RAND
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Braced for Russian Disinformation Attacks on Zelenskiy” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Six-Year Manifesto Sets Sights Beyond Ukraine” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Russia in Review, Feb. 23-March 1, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s resilience to sanctions shows it is ‘costly and unattainable’ to isolate a large and globally integrated economy, economist says” – Business Insider
- The War in Ukraine in a Transitional World Order
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Sees Risk of Russia Breaking Through Defenses by Summer” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Frontline Is Collapsing” – Newsweek
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Navalny’s Funeral to Be Held on Friday, Spokeswoman Says” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kremlin propagandists attack director of new ‘Master and Margarita’ film captivating Russians” – The Telegraph (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Ukraine, Russia Is Inching Forward Death by Death” – New York Times:
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Years On, What’s Next in Ukraine? Eight thinkers shed light on the state of the war” – Foreign Policy
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Experts analyze state of Ukraine war 2 years into Russia’s invasion [Michael Kofman, John Mearsheimer and Rebeccah Heinrichs]” – PBS
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘There’s only Plan A’: Defense leaders fear failure in Ukraine” – Politico
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-Ukraine War: China’s Vanishing Neutrality” – The Diplomat
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two years on, is Ukraine’s military faltering?” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine?” – WSJ
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: The Two-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine” – CSIS
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky Says 31,000 Ukrainian Troops Killed in Two Years of War” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “A War Putin Still Can’t Win” – Foreign Affairs
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Deepening Fog of War” – New York Times
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Meet the Press [interview with Jake Sullivan]” – NBC
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “State Dept. official [Victoria Nuland]: If Putin wins Ukraine, tyrants ‘will get hungry’ with aspirations” – PBS
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Has Already Lost” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Unveils Biggest Sanctions Package on Russia Since War Began” – Bloomberg
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelenskyy appeals to Trump, Congress to see ‘tragedy’ of Russia invasion in exclusive Bret Baier interview” – Fox
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Leadership Change in Russia: Contingency Planning Memorandum” – Council on Foreign Relations: Liana Fix, Maria Snegovaya
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Unpredictable Strongman? Two Years Into War, Putin Embraces the Image.” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “To Seek Peace in Ukraine, Remember the End of the Cold War” – The Nation
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “After two years of war, Russia finds itself frozen, but transformed” – Christian Science Monitor
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Biggest Ever Sanctions Have Failed to Halt Russia’s War Machine” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “2024 ASEEES CONVENTION THEME: Liberation” – Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Seizing Frozen Russian Assets Over Ukraine War Wins Endorsement of Legal Experts” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine” – Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Does the West’s Ukraine policy need a reality check?” – Brookings
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “No One Wants Ukraine to Win; Trump opposes the aid package, while Biden never calls for an outright victory.” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine war has cost Russia up to $211 billion, Pentagon says” – Defense News
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Military Spy Chief Says Russia Will Struggle to Keep Up the Fight” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian victories shake global leaders’ faith in Ukraine war prospects” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Despair in Russia as Putin Spirals Out of Control” – Daily Beast
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Avdiivka, Longtime Stronghold for Ukraine, Falls to Russians” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “As Putin Threatens, Despair and Hedging in Europe” – New York Times
- Like Hitler Before Him, Putin has Had to Go to War to Try to Save His Regime — but He Won’t Succeed, El Murid Says
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden, lawmakers hammer Ukraine aid holdouts after Navalny death” – Politico
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Vladimir the Poisoner of Underpants; What Navalny’s death means for Russia, Putin and the world” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “With Navalny’s death, Russia’s opposition loses its last leader” – Christian Science Monitor
- Russia in Review, Feb. 9-15, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Says He Prefers Biden Over Trump. Commentators Are Skeptical.” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What would a NATO war with Russia look like? How the UK is rehearsing” – The Times (UK)
- UKRAINELINK: “A Long War Made Longer by the West’s Unaddressed Mistakes” – Kennan Institute: Victor Andrusiv
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Battle for Avdiivka tests Ukraine’s new commander” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Means for the War in Ukraine” – Council on Foreign Relations
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why NATO Needs Ukraine: Kyiv’s Survival and Europe’s Security Depend on a More Unified Front” – Foreign Affairs: Alina Polyakova, James Goldgeier
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “China and Russia no longer perceived as top security threats, research finds” – CNBC
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s Obsession With History Led Him to Start a War” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Zelensky’s Military Shake-Up Ties Him to Battlefield Performance” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Military Balance 2024” – International Institute for Strategic Studies
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Seeks Revenge on a World Order He Once Wanted to Join” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “IMF warns that any action on Russian assets needs ‘sufficient legal support'” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainian justice tested as collaboration cases mount” – AFP
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Siberian shipyard workers brave freezing cold for ‘the hardest job in the world'” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSLINK: “Russia in Review, Feb. 2-9, 2024” – Russia Matters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Former CIA Analyst Issues Warning to Zelensky” – Newsweek
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Two Hours of Unchallenged Propaganda From Putin” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine sacks its top soldier” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “National Security Expert Fiona Hill Says Russia ‘Will Always Matter’ at HKS Event” – The Harvard Crimson
- RUSSIALINK: “‘The Master and Margarita’: From Favorite Novel to Blockbuster Film” – Moscow Times
- De-Centering Russia
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Trump, Putin, Carlson and the Shifting Sands of Today’s American Politics” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin, in rambling interview, barely lets Tucker Carlson get a word in” – Washington Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Poll Sends Worrying Message to Zelensky” – Newsweek
- Filtering the News: Why Russians Prefer Propaganda and Shield Themselves from Independent Reporting
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Peace in Ukraine; What a Ukraine peace deal might look like.” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Tucker Carlson Has Interviewed Putin in Moscow, Kremlin Says” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Zelensky, Facing Rising Challenges, Touts Leadership Overhaul” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Asia’s commercial heft helps keep Russia’s war economy going; That holds future lessons for America” – The Economist
- RIP: Roger Kanet
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Germany Braces for Decades of Confrontation With Russia” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Klitschko hits out against Zelensky’s ‘plan to reset’ top team” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What is Russia’s role in the Israel-Gaza crisis?” – Fiona Hill, Kevin Huggard
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Is Valery Zaluzhny about to be fired?” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Adaptation Advantage” – Foreign Affairs: Mick Ryan
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledges to shake up Ukraine’s leadership” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Tomorrow: Five scenarios for Russia’s future” – Atlantic Council: Casey Michel
- Russia in Review, Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 2024
- VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Washington Must Do for Kyiv Between Now and November” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s army chief: The design of war has changed” – CNN
- Russia’s Ruthless Renaissance
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. and Germany Push to Delay Ukraine NATO Membership Invite; Ukraine and its Eastern European allies want the invite to come soon, but Washington and Berlin are wary.” – Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “EU Leaders Agree to $54 Billion Ukraine Aid Package as Hungary’s Orban Backs Down” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Russia Stopped Ukraine’s Momentum; A Deep Defense Is Hard to Beat” – Foreign Affairs: Stephen Biddle
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s birthrates are plummeting. The next generation needs a plan.” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition” – Foreign Affairs: William J. Burns
- “Full-scale Invasion”
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine says it uncovers mass fraud in weapons procurement” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to replace Ukraine’s top general” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO Has Been Underestimating Russia’s War Machine, Estonia Says” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia has long sold arms to Iran. Now Iran is returning the favor.” – Christian Science Monitor
- Russia, the West and the ‘World Majority’
- Ukraine Can Win a War of Attrition
- RUSSIALINK: “Kremlin Denies Putin Sending Signals to U.S. for Ukraine Peace Talks” – Moscow Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Volodymyr Zelensky comes up empty-handed in Davos as he faces financial war hell” – New York Post
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Real Reason Thousands Are Fleeing Conscription in Ukraine” – The Daily Beast
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “UK must train citizens for war with Russia, says army chief” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “EU unlikely to confiscate Russian central bank assets – officials” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s War Fuels a Wage Spiral That Threatens Army Recruitment” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s $30 Billion Problem: How to Keep Fighting Without Foreign Aid” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine war drives shift in Russian nuclear thinking – study” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “A century after Lenin’s death, the USSR’s founder seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia” – AP
- Cursed land: About a radically pessimistic scenario for Russia and the whole world
- After A Frosty Reception, Tbilisi’s Wartime Russians Are Beginning To Leave
- Zelensky Signs Decree on Russian Territories ‘Historically Inhabited’ by Ukrainians
- Ukraine and West Can’t Count on Collapse of Russia’s Military-Industrial Sector as a Result of Sanctions, Inozemtsev Says
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is Losing the Drone War; How Kyiv Can Close the Innovation Gap With Russia” – Foreign Affairs: Eric Schmidt
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The U.S. plan to break Russia’s grip on nuclear fuel” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia” – The Hill
- Russia in Review, Jan. 12-19, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Active defence’: how Ukraine plans to survive 2024” – Financial Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Protests in Russia Put Spotlight on Wartime Ethnic Grievances” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “How viable is Arctic shipping? Russia is investing in the region” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s Desperate Hour: The World Needs a Russian Defeat” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Grabbing $300 billion of Russian assets is no panacea, West cautions in Davos” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Rules Out Nuclear Arms Talks With US Over Ukraine Support” – Bloomberg
- Unfulfillable Promise: Mediation Efforts in the Russian-Ukrainian War since 2014
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “With ‘God’s-eye view,’ secretive surveillance flights keep close watch on Russia and Ukraine” – AP
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine foreign minister muses about ‘punching’ Russia’s Lavrov” – Reuters
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The War in Ukraine Has Become a Peripheral Concern for the West” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Domestic Woes Continue as Russian Military Struggles in Ukraine” – Newsweek
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The U.S. Can Make Ukraine Play Defense, on One Condition” – Bloomberg
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What To Read To Understand Russia” – The Atlantic/ Anastasia Edel
- Blinken Assures Zelenskyy of ‘Strong Enduring Support for Ukraine’
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainians are resorting to extreme lengths to flee the war” – The Times (UK)
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The war in Ukraine is starting to dictate its own rules to Putin” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “The War Has Reined In Ukraine’s Oligarchs, at Least for Now” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Can Europe arm Ukraine — or even itself?” – The Economist
- Alcohol Dependency in Russia Increases for First Time in a Decade
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian military intelligence: ‘Russian prisoners tell us they are coming to wage war against NATO'” – Le Monde
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “More countries join talks on Ukraine leader’s peace formula. But Russia is absent and war grinds on” – AP
- Russia in Review, Jan. 5-12, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine Was Poorly Tracked, Pentagon Report Says” – New York Times
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Medvedev warns of nuclear response if Ukraine hits missile launch sites” – Reuters
- Population Numbers Allow Ukrainian Military to Call Up 500,000, But Can It Afford to Keep Them?
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s War Effort Is Stuck. This Heroic Battlefield Failure Shows Why.” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Set to Push Zelenskiy at Davos for Clearer War Plan” – Bloomberg
- Oil Drilling Is Booming in Russia Despite Western Sanctions
- Peeling Away the Layers of Russian Foreign Policy
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Can Ukrainian drone attacks hurt Russia? The country is stepping up its strikes on enemy bases, and on Crimea” – The Economist
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “What Could Tip the Balance in the War in Ukraine?” – The New Yorker
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Can the spread of war be stopped?” – Washington Post
- Russia Analytical Report, Jan. 2-8, 2024
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Pentagon’s Ukraine Coffers Run Dry, Threatening Kyiv’s Grip on Its Territory” – WSJ
- JRL NEWSWATCH: “Nord Stream Probe Hampered by Resistance From Poland” – WSJ