Anna Borshchevskaya
Russia’s Desert Storm: A Conversation on the Russia/Ukraine Situation

Anna Borshchevskaya holds a doctorate from George Mason University and is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute, focusing on Russia’s policy toward the Middle East. She is also a contributor to Oxford Analytica and a fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy. Previously, she worked for the Atlantic Council and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. As a former analyst for a US military contractor in Afghanistan, she has also served as communications director for the American Islamic Congress. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Hill, the New Criterion, and Middle East Quarterly. In 2021, she published Putin’s War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America’s Absence.

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