Russia Analytical Report, Aug. 8-15, 2022 | Russia Matters

2022-09-10 03:22:49 By : Ms. Nancy Hu

“A disaster is looming at a huge Ukrainian nuclear power plant,” Editorial Board, WP, 08.13.22.

“Why al-Zawahiri’s death should focus attention on nuclear terrorism—foreign and domestic,” Scott Roecker and Nickolas Roth of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, BAS, 08.15.22.

“A Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson faces steep odds. Ukraine needs to show progress on the battlefield. But its army may not be ready,” The Economist, 08.14.22.

“Russia’s Repeat Failures Moscow’s New Strategy in Ukraine Is Just as Bad as the Old One,” Dara Massicot of RAND, FA, 08.15.22.

“The Case for Cautious Optimism in Ukraine,” RAND’s Raphael S. Cohen and Gian Gentile, FP, 08.09.22.

“Ukraine: Gladiatorial Battle,” Discussion between the PRISP Center’s Pyotr Skorobogatyi and Russian defense analyst Ruslan Pukhov, PRISP Center, 08.04.22. Clues From Russian Views

“Who’s who in the Ukrainian military hierarchy,” Interview with Russian defense analyst Ruslan Pukhov, MK.ru, 08.06.22. Clues From Russian Views

“Does the Russia-Ukraine war lead to currency asymmetries? A US dollar tale,” The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Vol. 26, sana gaied chortane of Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Sousse and Dharen Kumar Pandey of Magadh University, November 2022.

“The West Must Wean Itself Off Russian Titanium,” WSJ’s Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 08.05.22.

How to Take Down a Tyrant, Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, FP, 08.10.22.

“The West Needs a Strategy to Avoid Exhaustion in Ukraine,” CSIS’s Gerald F. Hyman, NI, 08.12.22.

“Henry Kissinger Is Worried About ‘Disequilibrium’: The 99-year-old former secretary of state has just published a book on leadership and sees a dangerous lack of strategic purpose in U.S. foreign policy,” Interview by Laura Secor, WSJ, 08.12.22.

“War With Ukraine as Other Means to Speed Up Reversal of Russia’s ‘Civilizational Choice,’” RM’s Simon Saradzhyan, RM, 08.12.22.

“Washington is gung-ho for a new Cold War. But that's a bad old idea,” WP’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, WP, 08.09.22.

“The U.S. Is Afraid of Losing in Ukraine—or Winning, WSJ’s Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 08.12.22.

“NATO Is Hedging on Its Promise to Protect the Baltics; The alliance is still making only token increases to its military presence in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia,” John R. Deni of U.S. Army War College and Brookings’ Michael O'Hanlon, WSJ, 08.10.22.

“Russia Can’t Fight a War and Still Arm the World. How the Country’s Shrinking Weapons Exports Could Change the Middle East,” Jennifer Kavanagh and Frederic Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, FA, 08.12.22.

“China’s New Vassal: How the War in Ukraine Turned Moscow Into Beijing’s Junior Partner,” Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, FA 08.09.22.

“Beijing and Moscow clash over Kazakhstan’s oil,” Joe Webster and Paddy Ryan of the Atlantic Council, Eurasianet, 08.11.22.

“The Case Against a New Arms Race: Nuclear Weapons Are Not the Future,” Rose Gottemoeller of Stanford University, FA, 08.09.22.

“Russia’s Brutal Honesty Has Destroyed the West’s Appeasers,” Meduza’s Alexey Kovalev, FP, 08.12.22.

“Pro-Western Russians are Europeans. Europe shouldn’t turn its back on them,” Andrey Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia.Post, 08.12.22.

“Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s risky double game,” Editorial Board, FT, 08.10.22.

“Germany’s Ukraine Problem: Europe’s Largest Country Needs Time to Adjust to a Dangerous New World,” Wolfgang Ischinger of the Munich Security Conference Foundation Council, FA, 08.10.22.

“It’s Time for Olaf Scholz to Walk His Talk,” Lukas Paul Schmelter of the Harvard Kennedy School and Bastian Matteo Scianna of the University of Potsdam, FP, 08.09.22.

“Germany is now the fulcrum for Vladimir Putin’s pressure,” FT’s Constanze Stelzenmüller, FT, 08.10.22.

“Rosatom: Putin’s Nuclear Arm in the Middle East,” Amr Salah of George Mason University, NI, 08.14.22.

“Russia’s diplomats are now reduced to propagandists,” Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, FT, 08.09.22.