After peaking in 2019, Russian-Chinese military cooperation declined sharply during the pandemic but quickly rebounded, revealing a partnership increasingly strategic in scope-even if still marked by asymmetry and caution
Beijing now dominates economically and increasingly militarily, leveraging pressure from the “fish war” to oil pricing and foreign-policy concessions
Nord Stream 2 – Entrenching Putin’s Economic and Political Corruption The traumatic exit of the US military from Kabul has removed covers from an elephant in the room…
Over the past several decades, the economy of the Russian Far East has become increasingly oriented toward serving China.
In order to ensure his dominance in the media space on the eve of a new electoral cycle, Putin is willing to use any means including the blocking…
This report describes mechanisms and schemes used by Putin’s regime to finance its illegal activities around the world.
Interview with Denis Sokolov conducted by Lidia Mikhalchenko. On April 20, 2020, a spontaneous protest took place in North Ossetia. Official statements by the government described them as…
The PR Campaign: April 2020 has witnessed a conspicuous uptick of publications in Western and Russian media in support of the Nord Stream 2 project: Germans want closer…
As the number of cases of COVID-19, also known informally as coronavirus, grows in the United States, local, state and federal government officials are scrambling to contain the…
The ongoing decline in global oil prices is very bad news for Putin’s regime which depends on oil and gas revenues for about 40% of its federal budget.
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