Contrary to some uninformed opinion, there has never been a threat of Chinese migrants overwhelming Russia’s underpopulated ...

The number of Ukrainian migrants abroad has increased. Since the beginning of 2025, about 100,000 Ukrainians have left. This is stated in the macroeconomic and monetary review of the National Bank ...

North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs: "North Korea Deepens Military Ties With Russia, Supplying Weapons for Ukraine War," The New York Times, 05.31.25. “Kim Jong-un.... found a solution to his ...

Would Russia be capable of mounting an invasion into a NATO country? If so, would it exercise that capability, and when? 1 Western officials and experts provided no shortage of affirmative answers to ...

Russia: +27,550 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of New York state). 1 Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea and ...

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the decision by Western countries to lift restrictions on the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine “dangerous,” saying that it “directly contradicts” Russia’s ...

“Putin almost certainly is committed to victory in Ukraine, and his objectives remain mostly unchanged since the beginning of the war: Ukrainian neutrality and a further partition of the Ukrainian ...

Washington needs to decide whether it would benefit more from seeing the Russians forced into the Chinese embrace, or from tempting Russia away from China through political and economic incentives.

Areas of expertise include: international security; Eurasian security; counterterrorism; human rights; democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory; Russia's foreign policy; Central Asia.