Anti-Western Influence Campaigns in Latin America: Understanding the Russia-Venezuela-Iran Triangle
Latin America has long been a playground for Russia’s anti-Western influence operations. But today Russia isn’t alone in this game: In recent years Iran has become an increasingly prominent player on ...
2 Okt 202446min
The Role of Africa in Russia’s Geopolitics
Russia’s intensive involvement with the African continent goes back decades. During the Cold War, Moscow viewed Africa as its “natural” sphere of influence and a staging ground for active measures and...
14 Aug 202446min
Georgian Politics After Controversial “Foreign Agent” Law
In December 2023, Georgia was granted official European Union candidate status, but the country's path to EU membership may now be at risk because of the recently adopted law “on transparency of forei...
15 Jul 202437min
The Russian Aviation Industry Two Years after the Sanctions
One of the sectors targeted by U.S. economic sanctions is Russia's civil aviation. Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Boeing and Airbus, whose planes constituted 70 percent of Russ...
13 Jun 202455min
Russia’s Battle around Reproductive Health and Women’s Rights
Russian authorities are taking tentative steps to limit access to abortion and other aspects of reproductive health, ostensibly to combat the demographic crisis, which has been amplified by Russia’s f...
1 Apr 202459min
Russia on the Second Anniversary of the Invasion of Ukraine
Two years after Russia launched the invasion of Ukraine, Izabella Tabarovsky sat down with Maxim Trudolyubov, editor in chief of the Kennan Institute’s Russia File blog, to discuss where Russia is tod...
20 Feb 202437min
Ukraine on the Second Anniversary of the Russian Invasion
Two years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Izabella Tabarovsky sat down with Mykhailo Minakov, the Kennan Institute’s senior advisor on Ukraine and editor in chief of its Focus Ukraine b...
20 Feb 202437min
Buryatia and the High Toll of Russia’s War in Ukraine on Ethnic Minorities
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has highlighted some of its own domestic problems. One of them is the uneven economic development of Russian regions and another is the unfair treatment of ethn...
24 Jan 202442min
