Paul Goble

Executive Summary: The Russian Duma passed a law giving the Kremlin the right to deploy military force abroad to “defend the rights of citizens of...

Executive Summary: China and Russia have agreed to form a strategic partnership in the Arctic for economic development, exploitation of mineral...

Russians have long viewed making direct appeals to their supreme leader as their last chance to achieve justice. Today, when ordinary political...

In February 2023, when President Vladimir Putin referred to the possibility that not only the Russian Federation but also the Russian nation itself...

For the last several years, China has made use of its own private military companies (PMC) to guard Chinese industrial sites and transportation...

In mid-May 2021, the Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan began to take on a dangerous new dimension. In contrast to the last 25...

In mid-July, China dispatched its Snow Dragon-2 icebreaker to the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This action marks yet another step toward realizing...

Recent reports that Moscow is deploying Cossack groups along the Russian-Ukrainian border near the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiy regions of Ukraine are...

Russian President Vladimir Putin constantly talks about how his country is building up its Armed Forces and supplying them with super weapons, but...

Until the Russian Federation launched a barrage of cruise missiles against Syria from ships in the Caspian Sea in October 2015 (see EDM , October 26,...