An American’s Death in Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Russia and the West
Unless the United States and its allies increase diplomatic pressure on Moscow, the violence in Ukraine will continue to kill innocent people. …read more Source: Open Society...
Navalny Accuses Russian Government of Green Dye Attack
Protesters throughout the country took to the streets this weekend, with letters asking Putin not to run for a fourth term. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The Fake Newness of Fake News
World faked out by phenomenon known oh so well in Eastern Europe! …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea: ‘Not Our Home Anymore’
“This used to be our home but it’s not anymore.” A Simferopol resident, who asked not to be identified for safety reasons, told us this when we spoke with her in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia has occupied since February 2014. After three years, she no longer feels at home in the place where she grew up. Since occupying Crimea...
Three Questions with James Sherr
Editor’s Note: The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) hosted an event in Warsaw, with a discussion on the common U.S.–European strategy toward Russia. James Sherr is an associate fellow and former head of the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House. He joined the event as a speaker, and we asked him about his views on the...
A Peek into Wonderland
What has happened to Mezhygorie, the infamously opulent estate of former President Victor Yanukovych, since he fled the country three years ago? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Iran in Yemen: Ending the Houthi War
With the US recently increasing its air operations in Yemen, the West still has a role to play in the Houthi conflict. But what conditions need to be in place for the coalition to triumph conclusively?Download the article (PDF)With the US recently stepping up air operations in Yemen, along with its arms sales to Arab states, the West clearly...
Putin Hosts Merkel for Low-Key Talks
Questions raised about Poland’s detention of Austrian man suspected of killing POWs in Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Donald Trump: The ‘Manchurian (Neoconservative) Candidate’?
Doug Bandow He took barely three months to reveal the truth. Donald Trump is the true Manchurian Candidate, only a tool of Neoconservatives rather than Communists. A new movie is sure to come and undoubtedly will be a smash, the biggest ever with the most Academy Awards ever, at least if President Trump has his way. Donald Trump ran as a...
Thus Votes South Ossetia: A Referendum the Kremlin Would Prefer to Ignore
Russia / Europe Anatoly Bibilov has become the new de-facto president of South Ossetia — a Russia-backed separatist enclave in the Caucasus that most national governments still recognise as a region of Georgia. Speaking to the BBC before his inauguration, Bibilov declared himself “one hundred percent sure” that South Ossetia will become part of...
