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• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Has war in Ukraine sealed the bond between Russia and China?” – Christian Science Monitor/Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Prepare for the disintegration of Putin’s Russia” – The Telegraph
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The dollar is our superpower, and Russia and China are threatening it” – Washington Post/ Fareed Zakaria
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Not easy’ to seize Russia assets, says EU task force head” – AFP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “No Ukraine offensive without more weapons – Zelensky” – BBC
• Russian Opposition Giving Kremlin a Victory by Making Defeat in Ukraine Centerpiece of Its Campaign, Golosov Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s security chief blasts West, dangles nuclear threats” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s Forever War: How the Invasion Empowers Russia’s President” – Foreign Affairs/ Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine to invade? Russia plotting? Rumors fly in Moldova amid protests.” – Christian Science Monitor
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden Doesn’t Need to Keep Pushing Xi and Putin Closer; A path away from great power conflict” – The Nation/ Jake Werner
• 2021 Census, Worst in Russian History, Exacerbating Country’s Descent into ‘Statistical Chaos,’ Raksha Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How Putin’s war destroyed a golden age of Russian culture” – Financial Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Asia Pivot Spurs Boom in Chinese Classes” – AFP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin’s War on Young People; Almost unnoticed, a generation of Russians has come of age during his 23 years in power.” – Foreign Policy/ Lucian Kim
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia-Ukraine War Threatens to Trigger New Nuclear Arms Race” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How to make the sanctions on Russia really hurt” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘By ignoring the Ukrainian identity of the painters, the Musée d’Orsay is made into an instrument of Russian propaganda” – Le Monde
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Case for a Security Guarantee for Ukraine” – Foreign Affairs
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Insurance Agencies Would Love to Know Who Blew Up Nord Stream” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Strengthen Economic, Political Ties” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian President Putin visits occupied city of Mariupol” – AP
• Having It Both Ways: Russians Both Support and Oppose War
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “There’s No Settlement of the War in Ukraine Without China” – The Nation/ Gilbert Achcar
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin Visits Crimea on Annexation Anniversary as Grain Deal Extended” – AFP/ Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “We’re One Step Closer to Putin’s Crimea Nightmare” – The Daily Beast
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How to Prepare for Peace Talks in Ukraine; Ending a War Requires Thinking Ahead” – Foreign Affairs/ Thomas R. Pickering
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Seasoned Russia Envoy Joins Biden’s NSC; Nicholas Berliner, a veteran diplomat, has joined the White House to run Russia policy” – Foreign Policy
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Rename Russia? Zelenskyy wants to look into it; Change enemy’s name to ‘Muscovy,’ petition demands” – Politico.eu
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “An Oscar win reignites the dream for Russia to be free” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s next civil war has already begun” – The Telegraph (UK)/ Richard Kemp
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine’s allies are set to discuss the dwindling ammunition supply” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Danger of Russia Becoming President of the U.N. Security Council” – Time
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Dispatch From Kyiv: Ballet in a Time of War” – The Nation/ Carol Schaeffer
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Republican 2024 hopefuls respond to Tucker Carlson’s questions about their stance on Russia-Ukraine war” – Fox
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Americans’ Favorable Rating of Russia Sinks to New Low of 9%” – Gallup News
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. turns to new ways to punish Russian oligarchs for the war” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Built $80 Billion Offshore Cash Pile in Year of Sanctions” – Bloomberg
• Russia Analytical Report, March 6-13, 2023 – 4 Ideas to Explore
• ANNOUNCEMENT & EVENT: GW Launches New Russia Studies Program
• Russian Research Center: Sic transit gloria mundi!
• Russia in Review, March 3-10, 2023 – 7 Things to Know
• RUSSIALINK: “Alfa Tycoons as Victims? Come On” – Moscow Times
• RUSSIALINK: “Still No Sign of Integration for Occupied Ukrainian Regions” – Moscow Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies” – Foreign Policy/ Artem Shaipov, Yuliia Shaipova
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin is running out of time to win the ammunition war against the West” – The Telegraph (UK)
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “For China, arming Russia would be folly” – Washington Post
• Russian Society Dominated by ‘Depressive Discourse’ of Pensioners, Gudkov Says
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Economist explains: Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? Lots of blame, no hard evidence” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Staring Down the Black Hole of Russia’s Future; A Ukrainian victory may be the country’s only chance at long-term salvation” – Foreign Policy/ Anastasia Edel
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin thinks he can win in Ukraine because it matters more to him than to the U.S., says CIA chief” – NBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Rattled by Ukraine war, Georgia wrestles with tighter societal controls” – Christian Science Monitor
• As Ukraine War Rages, Russia’s Anti-Putin Forces Fractured By Mudslinging, Mutual Allegations
• Golstein’s Ode To Haxthausen
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia can fight in Ukraine for two more years at current intensity, Lithuania says” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “U.S. Sees Russia Reducing Goals in Ukraine, Deepening China Ties” – Bloomberg
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Lacks Firepower to Keep Advancing, U.S. Intelligence Chief Says” – New York Times
• Excerpt from the “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community”
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Pentagon Blocks Sharing Evidence of Possible Russian War Crimes With Hague Court” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “One Year In: The View and the Lens from the Russian ‘Gas Station'” – Sarah Lindemann-Komarova
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin retreats deeper into his labyrinth” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Moscow’s Slow, Bloody March to Defeat” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Halfway to Hell Strategy; Why Putin Has Not Yet Launched a Total War in Ukraine” – Foreign Affairs/ Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
• The Risk of Protest Won’t Stop Election Manipulation: Implications for Democracy Assistance
• Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 27-March 6, 2023 – 4 Ideas to Explore
• VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT: State Department Press Briefing – March 6, 2023 [Excerpt re: Ukraine]
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s Wagner Troops Exhaust Ukrainian Forces in Bakhmut; Deadly fight against the penal battalions threatens Kyiv’s ability to mount spring offensive” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Biden Challenged by Softening Public Support for Arming Ukraine” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How the IMF naively parroted Putin’s fake statistics – and botched its economic forecast for Russia” – Fortune
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse; War in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict” – The Economist
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Under Pressure to Launch Counteroffensive That Will Appease NATO” – Newsweek
• JRL NEWSWATCH: Russia set to mothball damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines – sources” – Reuters
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “In Kyiv, Soviet-era monuments to Russian-Ukraine unity still stand. But should they?” – Los Angeles Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Kennan: A Life between Worlds review” – Irish Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Time Is on Russia’s Side, Not Ukraine’s; The U.S. and its allies need to act at the speed of war as they deliver arms to Kyiv.” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Inside China’s Peace Plan for Ukraine” – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “A view from Crimea, the Russian-annexed territory Ukraine is hoping to seize back” – NBC
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The U.S. will send more ammunition to Ukraine” – New York Times
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia will be out of ‘military tools’ by spring, Ukraine’s top military spy says” – USA Today
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Global Companies Are Finding It Hard to Leave Russia” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by energy weapon or foreign adversary, intelligence review finds” – Washington Post
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russian envoy says nuclear powers may clash over Ukraine” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukrainians are begging for cluster munitions to stop the Russians” – Washington Post
• Russia Analytical Report, Feb. 21-27, 2023 – 5 Ideas to Explore
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia keeps door open on future talks about nuclear pact” – AP
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “A total Russian collapse is surprisingly close; Ukraine can retake Crimea and bring about the total implosion of Putin’s forces, but only with our support” –  The Telegraph (UK)
• Sean Penn’s Zelensky Doc Substitutes Bromance for Storytelling
• What Led to Putin’s Blunder in Ukraine?
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Is the West’s War Now” – WSJ
• RUSSIALINK: “Ex-Kremlin Adviser Gleb Pavlovsky Dies at 71” – Moscow Times
• Russia in Review, Feb. 17-24, 2023 – 5 Things to Know
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “One Year Ago, Russia Invaded Ukraine” – The Nation/ Katrina vanden Heuvel
• VIDEO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “CIA director William Burns on ‘Face the Nation,’ Feb. 26, 2023” – CBS
• AUDIO: JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putinology: the art of analyzing the man in the Kremlin” – NPR/ Greg Myre
• IERES EVENT: The Russia Program Launch Event: A New Way to Study Russia – March 10 in Washington, D.C.
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Why the War Will Continue: One year in, the war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending.” – Council on Foreign Relations/ Richard Haass
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Ukraine Marks Successes, Mourns Losses as War Enters Second Year” – WSJ
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “How to End Putin’s Forever War: An armistice like the one that ended fighting in the Korean War is a viable alternative to stalemate and attrition in Ukraine” – The Nation
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “Putin frames war as protecting Russia’s existence. Are Russians buying it?” – Christian Science Monitor/ Fred Weir
• JRL NEWSWATCH: “The Quiescent Russians: What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Putin’s Public” – Foreign Affairs/ Joshua Yaffa