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Russian Military Modernization and Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine In recent years, there has been much interest in Russian military modernization due to Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and activity in eastern Ukraine, more assertive behavior along its borders, successful bolstering of the Syrian regime, and short deployment to Kazakhstan in January 2022 to quell civil unrest. Given …

The Jamestown Foundation mourns the loss of Dr. Jacob W. Kipp, a noted expert on the Russian, Soviet and Tsarist militaries, who passed away on October 27, 2021. Dr. Kipp was a contributor to Eurasia Daily Monitor and, for years, provided extensive intellectual and advisory support to Jamestown’s analysis of the Russian Armed Forces. In 2013, he wrote an elucidating report on that year’s …