Russia Reform Monitor No. 2289
A Cold War spy drama for the modern age;
Officially-sanctioned repression, extortion in Grozny;
A diplomatic appeal for cooperation at Davos...;
...as America's spies assess the Russia threat
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Putin Orders Up a National AI Strategy
The Jan. 15 instruction follows a year of Russian efforts to better unify public and private AI research.
Second Trump-Kim summit risks US credibility
President Trump hopes to use a second summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in the coming weeks to jumpstart progress on dismantling the North’s nuclear program, but Kim’s recent statements and Pyongyang’s clandestine work on its program raise serious questions about the President’s approach.
Russia’s latest gambit is just another Middle East foray gone awry
[T]he recent public verbal tongue lashings by Moscow to Iran’s leaders are just that. They are part of a false narrative that Moscow can exert its will over Turkey, Iran and Syria, and that Israel has a reliable and concerned partner in the Kremlin.
Russia Reform Monitor No. 2287
New evidence of foul play in journlist ambush;
Meet the "Kremlin kids";
Chechnya's anti-LGBT campaign