Alexei Navalny

March 11, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

Tucker Carlson ‘has lost his way’

President Trump now sees that clearly

February 24, 2026 | Andrea Stricker |

Countering Iran’s Covert Chemical Weapons Program

February 19, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, John Hardie, Ivana Stradner, Peter Doran, Joe Dougherty

Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

February 18, 2026 | Andrea Stricker |

Russia’s Alleged Use of Chemical Weapon To Murder Alexei Navalny Shows Cost of Impunity

Five European countries have accused Russia of using a lethal chemical weapon to murder the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The joint statement issued on February 14 by the UK, France, Sweden,...

January 8, 2026 | Maria Riofrio, Max Lesser

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

October 17, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

To Distract From Its Own Violations, Russia Accuses Ukraine Anew of Manufacturing Chemical Weapons

Russia has made fresh claims that Ukraine is manufacturing chemical weapons, even though every past claim has turned out to be groundless. Moscow leveled the new accusation at a meeting of the Organization...

February 26, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Meet Vladimir Putin

Let’s reacquaint ourselves with Russia’s ruler

January 10, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Trump should get tough again on chemical weapons states

The media has largely ignored a disturbing trend: Russia is openly using chemical weapons against Ukraine. Ukraine’s army support services say Russia has carried out 4,800 chemical...

August 2, 2024 | Peter Doran |

Biden’s massive Russian prisoner swap comes with major trouble for next president

Swap freed prominent prisoners held by Russia, but Biden may incentivize more hostage taking

May 10, 2024 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero

Washington Accuses Russia of Chemical Weapons Attacks in Ukraine

The United States last week accused Russia of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops and sanctioned 12 Russian entities and individuals associated with Vladimir Putin’s ongoing chemical weapons...

March 12, 2024 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Going Nuclear on Rosatom

Ending Global Dependence on Putin's Nuclear Energy Sector

February 28, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Putin’s defeat in Ukraine

That should be the goal of liberals and conservatives alike

February 24, 2024 | |

U.S. Sanctions Iranian Entities for Helping Russia Build Drones

The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled new sanctions on February 23 against hundreds of entities complicit in Russia’s war in Ukraine, including a network of Iranian entities that...

February 22, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

What Biden must do to punish Putin for Navalny’s murder

Russian President Vladimir Putin has in the last two years caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people, from innocent civilians in Ukraine to the poorly trained conscripts he uses as cannon fodder...

February 21, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Murder in the Gulag

Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s only serious rival, has been eliminated

February 20, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

For Russia, a Year of Setbacks at the OPCW

Yet Member States Still Have Not Imposed Consequences for Moscow’s Chemical Weapons Use

December 6, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero

Radioactive: Executives from Russia’s Rosatom Corporation May Qualify for U.S. Sanctions

December 1, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero

Ukraine Defeats Russia in Historic OPCW Election

Ukraine was elected this week to the 41-member Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), defeating Russia and unseating Moscow for the first time in the OPCW’s...

July 10, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero

OPCW Meeting Sets Up Critical Opportunity to Sideline Russia 

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will convene this week for a thrice-yearly meeting of its Executive Council (EC). The 41-nation policy-making body has a chance to hold Russia...

June 22, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Turn Russia’s paranoia against it: Fight back in the information war

A Russian bureaucrat and his wife are at home with their child. They’re disillusioned, asking themselves, “Is it the kind of life I dreamt of?” Then the man decides to contact the CIA. “We...