29 Jan 2021 09:20
Three Russian think tanks included in University of Pennsylvania s 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report
MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax) - The Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), the Carnegie Moscow Center, and the Moscow State Institute of international Relations (MGIMO) have been included in the prestigious 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report compiled by the University of Pennsylvania.
IMEMO ranks 33rd; MGIMO is 124th.
The Top 5 are: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (U.S.), Bruegel (Belgium), the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (U.S.), the French institute of international relations (France), and the Japan Institute of International Affairs was rated the best think tank of the year.
U.S. strikes said to kill scores of Russian fighters in Syria
U.S. forces killed scores of Russian mercenaries in Syria last week in what may be the deadliest clash between citizens of the former foes since the Cold War, according to one U.S. official and three Russians familiar with the matter.More than 20.
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U.S. Special Forces soldiers at a front line outpost outside Manbij, Syria, Feb. 7, 2018. Four Russian nationals, and perhaps dozens more, were killed in fighting between pro-government forces in eastern Syria and members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, according to Russian and Syrian officials. A Syrian military officer said that about 100 Russian soldiers had been killed in the fighting on Feb. 7 and 8. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times Copyright 2018 / New York Times)
What pressed Syrian regime into scaling down combat readiness?
The President of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, with army officers 22 October 2019 (Syrian Presidency)
The circular by which Bashar al-Assad, head of the Syrian regime and commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, has ordered rolling back army readiness to pre-2012 levels, poses several questions regarding the decision’s timing and the political and economic factors that urged it?
Under the circular, dispatched to relevant army entities on 10 January, combat readiness was scaled down in all departments of the Syrian military; reduced from 66 to 33 percent in administrative departments, and from 80 to 50 percent in their affiliated military units.