War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv
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Catrina Doxsee, Associate Director and Associate Fellow for the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), outlines the relationship between Wagner and the Russian state, why PMCs are not likely to be legalized in Russia, founding and evolution of Wagner, changes in Prigozhin's behavior, and global security implications of Wagner actiivty beyond Russia.
'The fact that PMCs are not legal in Russia... gives Putin a tremendous amount of leverage over those PMCs...'
'You have dissent within the ranks... as [Wagner] brings in populations out of prisons there's an intense social stigma between non-prisoners and prisoners in the ranks - as well as between the prisoners themselves given the very strict hierarchy socially in Russian prisons...'
Catrina Doxsee on Putin's Proxies: Examining Russia's Use of Private Military Companies
Catrina Doxsee and Jared Thompson on The Wagner Group's Mounting Humanitarian Cost in Mali
Jared Thompson, Catrina Doxsee and Joseph Bermudez on Tracking the Arrival of Russia's Wagner Group in Mali
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Catrina Doxsee on twitter: @catrinadoxsee
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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120. ANALYSIS: Lucan Way on Revolution and Dictatorship: durablility of the Soviety Union, legacies for Putn’s regime, & trajectory of the war in Ukraine
119. ANALYSIS: Keir Giles on Russia’s War on Everybody and the war in Ukraine
118. UPDATE: Maksym Yali forecasts trajectory of Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2023
117. UPDATE: Maksym Yali on attacks on Kyiv & Putin’s ’ceasefire’ declaration
116. ANALYSIS: Greta Uehling on ’Everyday War’ in Ukraine - how Russia’s war in Ukraine has impacted civilian lives since 2014
115. ANALYSIS: James Rodgers on Russia’s media environment: foreign reporting from Moscow, changes from the 1990s to today, and the sharp turn since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
114. ANALYSIS: Paul Goode on Russian nationalism and the war in Ukraine
113. UPDATE: Maksym Yali on life in Kyiv after infrastructure attacks, Ukrainian resilience and resolve & what to expect on the battlefront over the winter
112. ANALYSIS: Alexander Lanoszka on military alliances, NATO’s response to war in Ukraine, and how the Ukraine war will shape military alliances in the twenty-first century
111. ANALYSIS: Una Bergmane on Baltic states’ independence; Soviet echoes in invasion of Ukraine; possiblity of Russian military clash with Baltic states & performative insanity in Russian rhetoric
110. ANALYSIS: Collin Koh on maritime security concerns in SEA - China / India maritime power; lessons learnt from maritime conflict in Ukraine war; and likelihood of a clash between China & Taiwan
109. ANALYSIS: Mack Tubridy reflects on Russian response to full-scale invasion, mobilization & the impact on Georgia of influx of Russian emigres
108. ANALYSIS: Botakoz Kassymbekova on the Soviet project as settler colonialism, legacies, & implications for the war in Ukraine
107. ANALYSIS: US Army Lieutenant Col. Paul Lushenko on drone warfare, legitimacy and the war in Ukraine
106. ANALYSIS: Stephan Fruehling on Russia’s nuclear threats, deterrence, China’s strategic interests and the war in Ukraine
105. DEEP DIVE: Ian Garner on the Battle of Stalingrad, national identity, war narratives, and echoes of these narratives in Putin’s rhetoric on Russia’s war in Ukraine
104. KYIV UPDATE: Maksym Yali comments on who likely bombed the Kerch Bridge & atmosphere in Kyiv following missile strikes
103. ANALYSIS: Denis Kazakiewicz on Belarus, the war in Ukraine, recent joint Russia-Belarus military group, how the war affects the Belarusian population & impacts Lukashenko’s grip on power
102. ANALYSIS: Azamat Junisbai reflects on Kazakh identity, Russian dominance, the war in Ukraine, and the process of decolonizing one’s own mind
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