Commentary
Are Russia and Ukraine Cooperating? The Black Sea Grain Initiative
Why would Russia and Ukraine sign a deal to allow grain shipments while they are at war? What happened? Possibly as early as a week
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Author: Rick Spencer
Analytical Writing
Is Sderzhivanie a nuclear strategy concept or not: Reading Charap’s essay
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is not necessarily an утку. Samuel Charap’s essay Strategic Sderzhivanie: Understanding Contemporary Russian
Editing
Editing a glossary of sociolinguistic terms for the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
One of my most rewarding opportunties was aworking with Dr. Aisa Bitkeeva, a sociolinguist and “Leading Researcher, Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations” at
Editing
About copywriting and production of Folklorica
For four years, I assisted Dr. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby with the production and distribution of Folklorica, the Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore
Administrative Operations
Leading an Exchange Program Redesign
In 2020, I took responsibility for requesting visa eligibility documents for South Korean applicants to a twelve-year international exchange program in a university graduate department.
Analytical Writing
Evaluating The International Atomic Energy Agency
If you had walked out of the signing of the United Nations Charter on June 26th, 1945 and taken a bicycle ride south and then
Analytical Writing
What is Counter-Proliferation Finance?
The efforts to use explicit sanctions on banks, companies and individuals is new, and has introduced a new field of transnational economic statecraft: counter-proliferation finance.
Analytical Writing
Buying a Russian S-400 Triumf Air Defense System
In September of 2017 Turkey signed a $2.5 billion contract to buy S-400 Triumf air defense systems from Russia. The US was none-too-pleased with the
Commentary
How hard is it to get a sense of the Russian Armed Forces budget data?
It’s not very hard to get a number, or a couple numbers. I found close to a dozen sources that would state a budget or
Commentary
How do the Russian Armed Forces express jointness?
The Army’s Foreign Military Service Office (FMSO) produced an e-book in 2017 called The Russian Way of War, which is one of the only documents