Russia Policy Monitor No. 2733
Duma elections as political football;
The short life expectancy of Russian recruits;
A warning from Warsaw;
Target: Finland
Duma elections as political football;
The short life expectancy of Russian recruits;
A warning from Warsaw;
Target: Finland
The Iranian regime has made its atomic ambitions abundantly clear, and has funneled enormous resources into this project over the past several decades. Logic therefore dictates that American policy needs to deny it every pathway for turning those aspirations into a weapon – not simply the most obvious one.
More military growth;
A helping hand for the Taliban...;
...Augurs growing influence for Moscow;
Crimea in the crosshairs...;
...As Russia rethinks basing
“The terms of the new Memorandum of Understanding agreed to between Washington and Tehran over the weekend have now been made public, and the agreement as currently formulated is more lopsided and less favorable than even the skeptics had initially predicted.”
The potential for change within Iran persists—although the mechanism and timing for such a change are still unclear.