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Mark Galeotti

I specialize in fairly murky and morally-dubious subjects: modern Russian history and security affairs and transnational and organized crime of both past and present. Educated at Robinson College, Cambridge and the London School of Economics, I was based at Keele 1991-2008, New York University 2009-16 and am now a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and coordinator of its Centre for European Security.

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Author Archive | Mark Galeotti

Putin the Recruiter and Trump the Potential Asset? Agent-handling and the Helsinki Summit

07.13.18

  • From Trump’s Washington to the Capitals of Europe, Corruption is Russia’s Greatest Ally

    03.03.17

  • The NYT Story on “Trump associates” and Russian Spooks: Some Questions

    02.16.17

  • Trump May Not Be the ‘Siberian Candidate’ but his White House is Coming to Resemble Putin’s Kremlin

    02.07.17

  • Sanctioning the GRU, a Decent Step, but Hamstrung by the Need for Symmetry

    12.30.16

  • Evgeni Zinichev: Putin’s New Man at the FSB

    11.06.16

  • Russia’s “Little Green Fan” Problem: Football Hooligans, the New Nationalism, and the Western Narrative

    06.19.16

  • Putin’s new National Guard – What Does It Say when you Need your Own Personal Army?

    04.05.16

  • Kadyrov the Terrible? Is he Really Going, or is this Just a Curtain Call?

    02.27.16

  • Russia, Turkey, Deconfliction and Distrust

    11.25.15

  • Turkey Shoots Down a Russian Jet and we Return to the 19th Century

    11.24.15

  • If U.S. Intelligence on Russia is Broken (A Bit), What Can Be Done To Help Fix It?

    11.03.15

  • Is Ukraine Being Thrown Off the Bus?

    10.05.15

  • Russians In Syria, Zaslon, and the Risks of Going Native

    09.27.15

  • Right Sector and Wrong Directions in Ukraine

    07.14.15

  • There’s a Silver Lining In Moscow’s Latest Nuclear Sabre-Rattling

    06.17.15

  • U.S. Prepositioning in the Baltics: Heavy Metal Politics and Hostages to Fortune

    06.15.15

  • First thoughts on Nemtsov’s, ‘Putin. War.,’ Report on Russian Operations in Ukraine

    05.13.15

  • No Coups Today…

    03.14.15

  • Known Knowns and the Nemtsov Murder

    03.04.15

  • Nemtsov’s Murder and Three Other Deaths

    02.28.15

  • The Minsk-2 Accords: Peace in our Time? Hardly

    02.12.15

  • Russia’s Battle of the Big Beasts?

    01.30.15

  • Why Is Donetsk Airport So Important?

    01.18.15

  • A Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal: Crimea Must have a Cost

    01.01.15

  • First Thoughts on the Navalny Sentencing

    12.30.14

  • Igor Rodionov, 1936-2014: Soldier, Scapegoat, Minister, Hard-Liner and Reformer, All at Once

    12.19.14

  • Kolokoltsev’s Populist Lurch

    11.29.14

  • Is Kolokoltsev In or Out?

    11.01.14

  • A Hurricane in the East: Are Rebels Getting BM-27 ‘Uragan’ Rocket Systems?

    07.25.14

  • Blowback’s a Bitch: MH17 and the East Ukraine Campaign’s Long-Term Costs for Russia

    07.20.14

  • Of Strelkov and Stolypin: Tsarist Russia’s Last Chance

    06.15.14

  • Those Mysterious Tanks in Ukraine

    06.14.14

  • Is Putin Trying to Regain Control of Eastern Ukraine?

    05.27.14

  • Ukraine, a Perversely “Good” War for the GRU

    05.01.14

  • NATO and the New War: Dealing with Threats before they become Kinetic

    04.26.14

  • Video of Russian Lt. Colonel in Ukraine not Quite the Smoking Gun

    04.14.14

  • Are Russian Troops in Eastern Ukraine?

    04.13.14

  • Not a new Cold War: Great Game II

    04.08.14

  • What Would a Russian Invasion of Ukraine Look Like?

    03.29.14