If you’re looking at a list of America’s top 10 experts on Russia, chances are, Andrew S. Weiss will be on that list. His inclusion is a consequence of his significant work in both government and the ...

As of May 13, 2025, Russian forces occupied 112,757 square kilometers (43,536 square miles), which constituted 18.7% of the Ukrainian territory and which is roughly equivalent to the state of Virginia ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration neared the 100 day mark, former U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, now inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order ...

Ukrainian troops have received orders to fire only in response to Russian attacks during the three-day ceasefire unilaterally declared by Putin, Suspilne reports, citing soldiers from three Ukrainian ...

Areas of expertise include: Russian political economics; contract theory; corporate governance; economics of development and transition.

The election of U.S. President Donald Trump changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to seeking a negotiated peace settlement. These negotiations will be driven by the battlefield ...

The U.S. proposal for Russian-Ukrainianpeace discussed by the high-ranking U.S., European and Ukrainian officials on April 17 in Paris. The European-Ukrainian proposal for Russian-Ukrainian peace ...

The 2022 National Security Strategy listed Russia and China as the greatest threats to the US-led Liberal Order. The new Trump administration has shifted the focus of American foreign policy away from ...

The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war has shaken traditional concepts of deterrence worldwide, but its most profound implications might emerge quietly in the Middle East, reshaping strategic interactions ...

The Russian state systematically distorts widely accepted historical viewpoints on key events such as World War II or the annexation of Crimea with the aim to influence societies abroad and ultimately ...

On April 23, Russia Matters’ student associates Chris Conway and Dasha Zhukauskaite interviewed Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, and currently a senior fellow at the Belfer Center ...

Full text of the 2024 Strategy for Countering Extremism in the Russian Federation (in Russian.) 2024 Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence Full text of the ...