Russia Reform Monitor No. 2297
Kyiv courts Europe;
Parsing Putin's "State of the Nation";
A cyber campaign against EU think tanks;
Another Putin critic meets his end
Kyiv courts Europe;
Parsing Putin's "State of the Nation";
A cyber campaign against EU think tanks;
Another Putin critic meets his end
U.S. challenges China at the World Bank;
U.S.-China relations; #METOO tops China's most censored topics;
More trouble signs for China's economy;
New app to "study Xi" a hit
Israel's anti-terrorist fence;
Britain's plan for ISIS "cubs";
Hezbollah feels the heat;
Israel's response to "pay to slay"
A second act for ISIS in Afghanistan?;
Still fertile soil for ISIS in Iraq
The high cost of fighting Russian corruption;
Patching the militarys social media problem;
The Kremlin fears a Venezuelan "color revolution";
Church rift continues
A defiant Lavrov at Munich
In 2015, Russia formally entered the Syrian conflict, becoming the Assad regime’s second sponsor, alongside Iran. The grounds for that intervention, we now know, were laid at a 2015 meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.