However, fast-forward to the return of Donald Trump—whom Putin has clearly favored over Biden—to the White House in 2025, and ...

William H. Tobey, Director, Office of National Security and International Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Senior Fellow, Avoiding Great Power Wars Project, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy ...

Areas of expertise include: Russian-Iranian relations, Russian nuclear strategy, Iran’s nuclear decision-making, contestation in the non-proliferation regime and nuclear deterrence.

5 Things to Know. Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastward and lift a chunk of sanctions on ...

Who made the forecast: When the attack could occur: Under what conditions (if given) Lithuanian Gen. Valdemaras Rupšys (Politico, 01.25.24)Russia won’t attack a NATO country (countries) in 2025–2026: ...

4 Ideas to Explore. Russia’s aerial attacks against Ukraine in the past few days have shattered some of the previous records, according to estimates by ISW that are based on data from the Ukrainian ...

Footnotes. See Table 1 in Section V for estimates of damage caused by the June 1 strikes. Full texts of the two memoranda available in the June 2, 2025, edition of RM’s Russia Analytical Report.; See ...

2 Ideas to Explore “Astonishing” is the adjective Economist and Politico writers used to describe Ukraine’s operation to smuggle some 150 drones into Russia and launch them in a June 1 attack on ...

For all of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategic blunders (none more harmful to Russia’s long-term interests than his decision to invade Ukraine), his sustained support for a closer ...

Washington needs to decide whether it would benefit more from seeing the Russians forced into the Chinese embrace, or from tempting Russia away from China through political and economic incentives.

Areas of expertise include: international security; Eurasian security; counterterrorism; human rights; democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory; Russia's foreign policy; Central Asia.

Sabine Fischer, Senior Fellow, Research Division Eastern Europe and Eurasia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik).