Security
Seventy-Six Hours: How a British Scorpio Saved Russian Submariners
August 2005, off Kamchatka: for the first time in history the navy of a NATO country saved the crew of a Russian Navy vehicle — at Moscow’s first call, in a restricted area, with seven lives on the clock.
A Treaty on Two Pages: How Moscow and Washington Cut Their Arsenals in 2002
Five short articles instead of five hundred pages: the Moscow Treaty of 2002 cut the two largest nuclear arsenals of the planet by roughly two-thirds — and fit on two pages.
The Unthinkable Consent: How Russia Opened Central Asia to America
In the autumn of 2001, American bases appeared in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan — with Moscow’s direct approval. A summer earlier, this would have been called fantasy.