Marco Rubio as the next Secretary of State, few were surprised or bewildered like, for instance, when Matt Gaetz was named as ...

After a significant wait, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 7 congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, stating he’s ready to hold discussions with the ...

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 ...

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Like all but one of Levada’s previous polls on Ukraine since October 2022, the September 2024 poll shows that the percentage of respondents favoring an end to Russia’s so-called special military ...

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 ...

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 ...

Full text of the 2013 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in Russian) (non-governmental source). Full text of the 2013 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in English).

This treaty requires that the U.S. and Russia each reduce the number of their deployed and non-deployed delivery systems, warheads on deployed delivery systems and deployed delivery systems by ...

Areas of expertise include: arms control, Russian nuclear posture, NATO and European security.