With United Nations-sponsored talks to end the civil war getting nowhere, Russia staged its own. Neither has made much progress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/world/middleeast/syria-russia-sochi-talks.html
https://ru.krymr.com/a/29006505.html
http://carnegie.ru/commentary/75320
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5A701C777BC00
Exploring why company turf wars and Western sanctions are preventing Russia from extracting oil and gas from the Arctic.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/russia-s-untapped-arctic-potential
https://www.svoboda.org/a/29004532.html
https://nv.ua/opinion/fesenko/debaty-volkera-surkova-cheho-khochet-rossija-2448473.html
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/29005297.html
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/29005347.html