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August 1, 2025 Country Reports · Russia
Country Report: Russia (July 2025)

With Trump cutting trade deals, Xi Jinping seeking to rally states behind his notion of globalization, the EU and NATO steeling themselves to support Ukraine more fully, and […]

Editorial Staff

BRI-EEU synergy, China-Mongolia-Russia corridor, EEU, Eurasian identity crisis, Ishia diplomacy, Lee Jae-myung, Multipolarity, pragmatic multilateralism, strategic partnership, Taiwan, tech containment, trade war
February 7, 2019 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (January 2019)

Sino-Russian relations remain the bedrock of Moscow’s Asia policy, as reaffirmed by when the Russian ambassador to China recounted at the start of 2019 how relations had been […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

BRI, EEU, G20, Greater Eurasia, INF Treaty, SCO, Trump-Kim summit, turn to the East
October 18, 2018 Open Forum
Russia’s Revived Debate on China: Historical Perspective and Implicit Significance

In the fall of 2018, the case is again being made that Russia is likely to be amenable to distance itself from China despite the recent tightening of […]

Gilbert Rozman

BRI, BRICS, China Dream, Cold War, EEU, SCO, Silk Road, Yellow Peril
October 16, 2018 Open Forum
The Balance between Sinophobia and Discourse on Cooperation: Expert Opinion on China in Russia and Kazakhstan

The Beijing-Moscow-Astana triangle is the key to the processes of integration and economic cooperation in “Central Eurasia”—a recent but salient geopolitical construct, the appearance of which was brought […]

Ivan Zuenko

BRI, community of common destiny, EEU, Nurly Zhol, SCO, Sinophobia, SREB, Valdai Club
October 11, 2018 Open Forum
As China and Russia Draw Closer, Mongolia Feels the Squeeze

In September 2018 Russia carried out the largest military exercise since the height of the Cold War.1 Vostok-2018, held in Siberia, drew considerable attention in the Western media, […]

Sergey Radchenko

BRI, EEF, EEU, Khaltmaa “Genco” Battulga, SCO, third neighbor policy, Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping
July 24, 2018 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (July 2018)

Zero-sum reasoning prevailed in Russian writings. The United States is the enemy, and it must be weakened, which authors take satisfaction is happening. A contradictory approach to Trump […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

AIIB, BRI, CVID, EEU, Khasan-Rajin railway, SCO, Trump-Kim summit
June 2, 2017 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2017)

Coverage of Russia in East Asia concentrated on the Belt and Road Initiative forum in mid-May with some attention given to the Korean Peninsula, as a new president […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, BRI Forum, BRIC, EEU, OBOR, Russian Far East, SCO, SREB
October 18, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (October 2016)

Russian articles in the late summer of 2016 found multiple reasons to take heart. The Sino-US relationship appeared more troubled, opening more space for Russia. Plans for transit […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

ASEAN, BRICS, Eastern Economic Forum, EEU, G20, SCO, Silk Road Economic Belt, South China Sea
June 3, 2016 Alternative Scenarios
Negative Scenario I: The Integration of China’s Northeast and Russia’s Far East in the Silk Road Economic Belt

Beijing’s initiative, the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB), is meant to contribute to China’s economic rise by creating markets for surplus production of such goods as steel and […]

Gaye Christoffersen

Dongbei-RFE integration, EEU, ESPO, Heilongjiang, SREB
May 30, 2016 Country Reports
Country Report: Russia (May 2016)

On April 12, Sergei Lavrov in Rossiiskaya Gazeta made clear Russian thinking about Mongolia, Japan, and China. His words for Mongolia spoke only of closeness: in history, today, […]

Editorial Staff (with the assistance of Olga Puzanova)

Authoritarian capitalism, EEU, Eurasianism, Pluralism, Sino-Russian Relations, SREB, Turn to Asia