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JOHN ISHIYAMA
A Medieval Form of Genocide in Ukraine?
There has been much made of the term “genocide” when discussing the atrocities being committed by Russia in Ukraine. President Biden...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read
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Will Belarus join the war now?
An interesting dynamic has emerged in the last 10 days or so. Whereas there was widespread anticipation that Aleksandr Lukashenko was...
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Apr 3, 20222 min read
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South Ossetia and a new front for Russia in the Caucasus?
On March 31, Anatoly Bibilov, the president of the separatist region of South Ossetia in Georgia announced the intention to hold a...
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Mar 31, 20222 min read
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Russians defining their way out of the war?
Today, Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy claimed that the “the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed,"...
jishiyama8
Mar 25, 20222 min read
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From Winning to Not Losing Everything-- Russia's evolving search for a way out of the War
The reports of the progress in talks between the Russian and Ukrainian negotiating team are very promising. Even Russian FM Lavrov sounds...
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Mar 16, 20222 min read
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Is Putin afraid of his own intelligence services?
Over the weekend Steven Hall, an ex CIA analyst and a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, made an observation on CNN that the...
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Mar 14, 20222 min read
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What does Putin want from Ukraine? Surrender first, then we can talk
Yesterday (March 7, 2022) Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced the conditions by which the Kremlin would consider a ceasefire. ...
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Mar 9, 20222 min read
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Can the Communists help democratize Russia?
Here is an article that I wrote with a colleague in Russia (who I am not identifying for his safety) that will appear later this year. It...
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Mar 6, 20221 min read
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An Off Ramp for Putin?
In a Washington Post editorial, Ambassador and Professor Michael McFaul, an eminent scholar and specialist on Russia and the former...
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Mar 5, 20223 min read
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What Putin Means by "De nazification"
There has been a great deal of outrage among many in the Western media pointing to the irony of Vladimir Putin’s use of the term...
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Mar 4, 20222 min read
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Red Canaries in Putin's Coal Mine?
In the midst of the focus on the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, little attention has been paid to the effects this war will have on...
jishiyama8
Mar 1, 20224 min read
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