2023 is the latest year for which World Bank and SIPRI, which the author relied upon to calculate national power per ...

As Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts the first summit of BRICS+ in Tatarstan’s capital Kazan on Oct. 22–24, it has motivated me to update my comparison of this group of countries with the G-7 in ...

A majority of Russians would support ending hostilities and launching peace negotiations, according to the results of a ...

First and foremost, the Beijing-Moscow axis now rests on a more solid geopolitical foundation. Second, whereas Soviet ...

Full text of the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in Russian). Full text of the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in English). 2020 Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on ...

Russia Matters is a project launched in 2016 by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and made possible with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and ...

This is a working paper by the Negotiation Task Force (NTF). NTF is an advisory and R&D group that specializes in negotiation strategy in crisis environments. The NTF was incubated through the Scholar ...

Areas of expertise include: energy, climate change and Russian domestic politics and policymaking.

Incorrect: While hydrocarbons play an outsized role in Moscow’s federal budget and its nuclear weapons may figure in GDP, Russia’s economy is more diverse than that, with oil and gas making up just ...

The Levada Center has released the results of its monthly polling of Russians on Russia’s war in Ukraine and its broader stand-off with NATO. The share of Russians who would like to leave Russia for ...

Not a week seems to go by without Russian officials issuing some kind of nuclear warning. During a meeting with the Russian Security Council on Sept. 25, President Vladimir Putin described ...