Russia

12/03/2016 - 13:05

Both countries prematurely quashed their nuclear thermal propulsion programs (Though the Soviets’ lasted into the 1980s). “Prematurely”... →

19/02/2016 - 16:51

Russia once again is approaching a breaking point at which reform may become inevitable. Ironically, any effective program of political... →

06/02/2016 - 16:05

The dichotomy between the new and the familiar in contemporary Russia can be broken down into a handful of contradictions that neither... →

22/01/2016 - 18:13

This offspring of the Cold War was established in 1975, when the two ideologically competing blocs—NATO and the Warsaw Pact—signed the... →

30/12/2015 - 15:11

The geopolitical danger arises from Putin’s growing reliance on military action abroad – in Ukraine and now in Syria – to maintain his... →

03/12/2015 - 15:59

Meeting on the sidelines of the COP21 Paris climate summit, Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked for 45 minutes, about... →

28/11/2015 - 14:54

A PROXY WAR AND THE WIDER STRUGGLE In Syria, Putin professes that he wants to fight ISIS, but this is mere posturing. Even with new... →

22/11/2015 - 14:15

But a “first strike” is not an absolute principle, and it is completely unacceptable when it comes to the use of nuclear weapons in... →

30/10/2015 - 17:46

In today’s Russia it is not fashionable to delve too deeply into Gulag history, and 60-year-old Panikarov’s collection is one of just two... →

25/10/2015 - 14:39

“You can probably equip them with lasers, maybe put some explosives on them,” Anatoly Zak, a space historian and journalist, told Quartz. “... →

27/09/2015 - 13:24

Of course, a history of intimacy does not preclude separation, as divorce lawyers can attest. And the two countries had been “divorced” for... →

20/09/2015 - 18:38

Post-Soviet, postcolonial? Postcolonial theory is becoming an increasingly popular way of explaining current developments in the post-... →

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