Drone Line. Biker Gangs. A Summer Offensive. Ukraine’s Defenses Are Stretched To The Breaking Point. Again.
By Mike Eckel, Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL Sometime around May 13, two battle-hardened Russian motor rifle
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Italian Court Gives Russian Lawyer 38-Month Prison Sentence For Role In Artyom Uss Escape
By Mike Eckel, Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL An Italian court sentenced a Geneva-based Russian lawyer to
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In Italian Court, Another Verdict Looms In Saga Of Artyom Uss’s Great Escape
By Mike Eckel, Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL After Artyom Uss, a Russian businessman and son of
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Donald, Vladimir, And A 2-Hour Phone Call: Did Putin Get The Better Of Trump?
By Todd Prince and Mike Eckel (Eckel is a Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL) Last month, US
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The Current State of Peace Talks Between Russia and Ukraine
Featuring Peter Rough, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Fletcher Alum On BBC Sounds, Peter Rough discusses the ongoing
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Arms Race in Ukraine
By Tim Judah, Fletcher alum and Special Correspondent for The Economist As I was waiting outside Kyiv’s main military hospital
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Don’t Mention The (Ukraine) War: How Putin Celebrated WWII Victory Day
By Mike Eckel, Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL Eighty years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Russian
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Victory Day On Red Square: 5 Things To Watch In This Year’s Kremlin War Anniversary
By Mike Eckel, Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL It’s the marquee celebration of the Russian calendar, the
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Could This Be Great? Trump as Opportunity
By Peter Rough, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Fletcher Alum In June 2018, seventeen months into Donald Trump’s
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Inside The (New) Ukraine-US Minerals Deal: Who Got The Better End?
By Mike Eckel and Serhiy Stetsenko (Eckel is a Fletcher Alum and Senior News Correspondent at RFERL) Three months ago,
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