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Putin’s former bodyguard and current Tula governor Alexei Dyumin is eternally tipped for a position in the federal government, yet is still waiting after seven years.
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
Climate change in the Middle East will amplify preexisting vulnerabilities stemming from conflict, displacement, marginalization, and corruption, while also creating new risks. Governments in the region will need to adopt more inclusive reforms as part of their climate adaptation strategies.
To explore these questions, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center is organizing a panel discussion on July 6, at 6:00 p.m EEST, which is co-hosted by the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, European Institute of Peace, and Syrian Network for Human Rights. The speakers will be Marie Forestier, Ala’ Alrababa’h, and Fadel Abdul Ghany.
The uprising has highlighted a crisis of management in Russia’s political system and the huge contradiction within the Russian armed forces. But it looks like the Kremlin is not intending to take any measures in response, apart from dictating how state propaganda should frame the event
Xi Jinping has no other option than to support Vladimir Putin—or someone like him
Can Washington wrangle a deal?
By solving a Russian domestic crisis, the Belarusian leader has effectively joined the ranks of Russian grandees vying for Putin’s favor by eliminating irritating problems that could distract the president from his high-stakes geopolitical machinations.
A recent revolt has exposed significant flaws in the Russian system—but won’t keep the Kremlin from responding with yet more repression.
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