The US is losing to China and Russia in the world's artificial intelligence arms race. Leaving it open to cyberattacks, disinformation, and erosion of individual privacy and civil liberties.
The armed operation targeting scientists in Moscow prompted outrage and questions about over-the-top actions by the country’s increasingly aggressive security forces.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4150547
https://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/v-gosdume-konstatirovali-razval-rossiyskoy-nauki-1028669423
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5DC1EC0B1B183
http://www.ng.ru/politics/2019-11-06/100_191105ras.html
https://www.rosbalt.ru/blogs/2019/11/06/1811715.html
Western governments are moving to shore up the authoritarian, independent-minded President Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus, worried that his country's possible absorption by Russia would alter European's balance of power.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-russian-allys-solo-course-alters-western-calculations-11572958804
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4148518