The Los Angeles Times is reporting that “The Bush administration is beginning a broad review of its Russia policy that could lead to a more confrontational approach toward Moscow over its treatment of neighboring countries and its own citizens…” The…
TASS reports that the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces tested an ABM interceptor at its Sary-Shagan facility in Kazakhstan on Monday. A spokesman for the Strategic Rocket Forces told TASS “All the tactical and technical performance characteristics of the missile were…
Linda Rothstein at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists suggests that Putin’s recent reference to “future weapons … which other nuclear powers do not and will not possess” is a reference to the “testing of a new hypersonic ‘Crazy Ivan’ warhead…
A Russian court has convicted Russian physicist Valentin Danilov of of selling state secrets to China, overturning his earlier acquittal that angered the FSB (nee KGB). The case parallels that of Igor Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow’s Institute of USA…
Russia completed ratification of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty on June 25, Defense News reports. The ratification is welcome news, but it comes amid a troubling political context. Russia is concerned about the expansion of NATO into the…
The American Forces Press Service published a Reagan retrospective, entitled “Reagan’s National Security Policy Targeted Soviet Threat”, that closes with this comment: History shows that 1980s Soviet military expenditures made in an attempt to keep up with the Americans eventually…
The Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus will conduct their first Open Skies Treaty observation mission over the territory of the United States this week (The Russians have conducted some other missions prior to entry-into-force). The treaty, which entered into…
The Moscow City court sentenced Sutyagin to 15 years in a maximum-security prison.
Igor Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow’s Institute of USA and Canada Studies (ISKRAN), has been convicted on trumped-up espionage charges. Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (the old KGB) has alleged he sold unclassified information about nuclear submarines and missile warning systems…
“If NATO remains a military alliance with an offensive military doctrine, Russia will have to adequately revise its military planning and principles regarding the development of its armed forces, including its nuclear forces,” warned Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov recently.…
