Content Syndicationhttps://carnegieendowment.org/rss/?fa=rss https://carnegieendowment.org/rss/solr/?fa=feeds http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174859_62935143720_1836682_n.jpg Thursday, 30 Mar 2023 02:10:56 EST https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss For the first time in nearly 40 years, Russian authorities arrested an American journalist on espionage charges. Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal was detained on Wednesday while reporting in central Russia. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 30 Mar 2023 02:10:56 EST Russia, Civil Society, Democracy and Human Rights, Foreign Policy, Society and Culture https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89250?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Andrew S. Weiss, former NSC Russia expert and current VP of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, takes on the person and psychology of Vladimir Putin in a new way.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/89250?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 22 Feb 2023 04:22:34 EST Russia, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88803?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This is a war of aggression that was unprovoked and that has brought Europe back to a level of savagery that hasn't been seen since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s or World War II. This is really scary stuff.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88803?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 11 Jan 2023 02:28:47 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88681?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss We've all heard stories about the Russian dictator. But who is the real Vladimir Putin? Greg Olear talks to Andrew S. Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about what's happening in Putin's Russia.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88681?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 09 Dec 2022 05:02:15 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Society and Culture https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88624?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Longtime Russia watcher Andrew Weiss took an unconventional approach to his new biography, Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88624?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 08 Dec 2022 05:16:24 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88623?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This week on Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with Andrew Weiss, former White House Russia Expert and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his new book Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88623?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 07 Dec 2022 05:13:50 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88581?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Assessing Biden's suggestion that US would enter into peace talks with Putin if the Kremlin had any serious interest in ending the war in Ukraine to which Putin responded by indicating he'd be willing to talk if the West accepted his precondition that Russia retain all the Ukrainian territory it has claimed.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88581?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 06 Dec 2022 04:53:45 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss As the U.S. and other nations try to end the Russian war in Ukraine, there has been a renewed focus on Russian President Putin. Who is he, where did he come from and what does he want?]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 25 Nov 2022 02:40:01 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88324?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss This graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88324?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 08 Nov 2022 04:41:55 EST Russia, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88383?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The most important thing that Putin experienced in East Germany was the spontaneous unraveling of the German Democratic Republic. ]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88383?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 08 Nov 2022 11:30:13 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Political Reform, Russian Domestic Politics, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88375?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The excerpt selected below seeks to explain the events that shaped how Putin views grassroots political protests: as a major threat to the survival of his regime and himself.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88375?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Saturday, 05 Nov 2022 10:46:41 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88338?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Vladimir Putin didn't talk about the other areas that Russia is now claiming to have annexed following the sham referendum a few weeks ago.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88338?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 27 Oct 2022 09:36:39 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88276?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The war in Ukraine may have fallen out of the headlines but it continues to grind on. David speaks with Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88276?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Thursday, 27 Oct 2022 07:30:02 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88256?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss For many years now Russia's grand strategy has always been that the West will fall apart, the United States will lose interest in the war, there will be divisions between the United States and its European allies, and all the socioeconomic pressures emerging from this war will hem in Western leaders' resolve and determination to stand by Ukraine.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88256?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 21 Oct 2022 11:53:21 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss It's still not exactly known why Russian President Vladmir Putin decided to invade Ukraine earlier this year - and why he continues Russia's attacks despite repeated military failures.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 11 Oct 2022 02:46:25 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88165?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and NPR's Jason Beaubien about the implications of the explosion on the bridge.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88165?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Monday, 10 Oct 2022 04:47:57 EST Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88139?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss President Biden says Vladimir Putin is not joking about his threats to use nuclear weapons to get out of the war in the Ukraine.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88139?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 07 Oct 2022 12:09:12 EST Russia, Defense and Security, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Policy, Russian Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88099?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Amid the war in Ukraine, Moscow continues to build bridges in the Middle East.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/88099?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Wednesday, 05 Oct 2022 07:13:24 EST Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Return of Global Russia: A Reassessment of the Kremlin’s International Agenda, Kuwait, Middle East, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Climate and Energy, Defense and Security, Economy, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87849?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss The Russians are getting symbolic value of having the Chinese run interference for them and trying to embrace some Russian talking points, but where it really matters, in terms of military direct support for Russia's war they are badly disappointed.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87849?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Friday, 02 Sep 2022 01:55:51 EST China, East Asia, Russia, Defense and Security https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87828?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace joins Amna Nawaz to discuss Gorbachev's legacy.]]> https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/87828?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Tuesday, 30 Aug 2022 01:41:18 EST Russia, Society and Culture