The Kremlin continues to pursue its longstanding hybrid warfare efforts to regain effective control of the territories of the former Soviet Union even as it seeks to gain control of Ukraine through military force. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in fact, supporting Russian hybrid warfare efforts in former …

Russia’s economy and war effort is coming under increasing strain, which will pose increasingly acute challenges to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ability to sustain the war over the long term. The Washington Post reported on October 27 that the Russian economy is “in danger of overheating,” noting that Russia’s excessively …

Faced with an apparent lack of successes in his own department, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has come up with an alternative way of going down in history. His most recent craze is the initiative to rename multiple streets in Moscow after Russian and Soviet …