Tag: Russia
Assassination of the Russian ambassador a big loss for Turkey
Sibel Oktay, University of Illinois at Springfield
The latest victim of Turkey’s climate of insecurity is Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
Karlov was...
The military gambit behind Putin’s Arctic ambitions for Russian oil
The military gambit behind Putin's Arctic ambitions for Russian oil
James Henderson, University of Oxford
The United States Geological Survey has estimated that the Arctic regions...
Vladimir Putin and Russia’s incredible shrinking ruble
By Benjamin J Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Russia’s currency is in free fall. Since mid-year, the incredible shrinking ruble has lost close to...














