Navigating the U.S.-Russia Standoff: India’s Foreign Policy, With Pankaj Saran
India and Russia have a mutually beneficial relationship going back decades, and since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, India’s strategic importance for Russia has grown considerably. This hasn’t g...
11 Dec 202528min
What Went Wrong in Russia? Russian Imperialism, With Ekaterina Schulmann and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Russia went from a tsarist empire and the totalitarian USSR to the freedom of the 1990s, complete with hopes of becoming a European democracy. Unfortunately, multiple missteps and reckless foreign pol...
27 Nov 202532min
How Russian Diplomacy Lost Trump, With Elizaveta Fokht
Russia has had a year to convince Trump to give up on Ukraine and force Zelensky to surrender, but at the end of 2025, we are yet to see any significant results from the Kremlin’s efforts. After a tri...
13 Nov 202544min
The Collapse of the Oil Empire? New U.S. Sanctions Against Russia, With Edward Fishman
After recent failures to bring the Kremlin to the negotiating table to end the war in Ukraine, Trump has adopted a new approach to Putin, taking the significant step of sanctioning Russia’s two bigges...
30 Okt 202536min
How to Handle Russia’s Frozen Assets in the EU, With Robert Zoellick
Russian assets abroad were frozen almost as soon as the country launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The idea of seizing those assets and transferring them to Ukraine has been discussed in Wester...
16 Okt 202531min
What to Do About Russian Drones in NATO Airspace, with Justyna Gotkowska
Over the last month, there have been multiple violations of NATO airspace by Russian fighter jets and drones most likely launched by Russia. The alliance must now come up with an adequate response to ...
2 Okt 202529min
Putin’s War Engine: How Healthy is Russia’s Oil and Gas Industry? With Sergey Vakulenko
The Russian oil and gas sector has been under significant pressure this year, but has continued to withstand sanctions. Recently, however, Ukraine has launched a series of massive drone attacks agains...
18 Sep 202533min
Better Than Ever? Russia-China Relations, with Sergey Radchenko
At this week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping seemed determined to show the whole world that Russia-China relations are better than they have ever been. Since ...
4 Sep 202545min
