Angela Stent appeared on NPR’s Here & Now on Oct. 19 in the segment Trump signs executive order waiving Russia sanctions, and on CNN International the same day to analyze the order and the diesel deal with Moscow. On Oct. 23, she discussed Russian strikes on Ukraine on BBC World News.
U.S. policy toward Russia shifted week by week in October, as President Trump reversed course on sanctions he had imposed just one month earlier. Across multiple networks, Stent explained what the policy changes and the diesel deal with Putin meant for multinationals with exposure to Russia, Ukraine or European energy markets as they worked to gauge where sanctions policy was headed next.
Her commentary also addressed the deteriorating relationship between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the warming ties between Trump and Putin. Her analysis draws on five decades of studying Russia, her government service as National Intelligence Officer and at the State Department, and years of meetings with senior Russian officials through the Valdai International Discussion Club.
About Angela Stent
Angela Stent is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an authority on Russian foreign policy and U.S.-Russian relations. She served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia from 2004 to 2006 and worked in the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning. Her book Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest was updated in 2023 with a chapter on the origins and consequences of the war in Ukraine. William Burns, the former CIA director and deputy secretary of state, called it “the definitive guide to understanding the tangled history of post-Cold War Russia.”
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