Kyiv: A City of Murals
Will the Ukrainian capital become a new center of street art culture? …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Czar Nicky’s Lonely Teardrops
Orthodox team finds no evidence of miracle in Russian-occupied Crimea. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Montenegro Awaits Senate Verdict: President Donald Trump Should End NATO Expansion Charade
Doug Bandow The postage stamp country of Montenegro expected to be rushed into NATO during Washington’s lame duck period before the unpredictable Donald Trump became president. But Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee, to their credit more concerned about America than wannabe foreign dependents, blocked ratification of the ratification...
Moldova: The Captured State on Europe’s Edge
08 March 2017Twenty-five years after independence, Moldova still suffers from corruption and institutional failure. Only the EU can hold the government coalition accountable for reform. Cristina Gherasimov Academy Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme The Moldovan flag in Chisnau. Photo: Getty Images. As far back as 2000, the World Bank had...
Kremlin-backed militant leader claims ‘right’ to shell his own cities
Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR], recently claimed during an OSCE press conference that he is fully entitled to shell Krasny Liman or Artemovsk, as these are “his land” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Moscow Says UN Court Powerless to Deal With Ukrainian Complaint
Ukraine wants the ICJ to order a stop to Russian support for rebels in the eastern Donbas region. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
What Russian Threat? Americans Shouldn’t Be Running Scared of Moscow
Doug Bandow Listen to folks in Washington talk about the supposed Russian threat and you’d think America was a small, third-rate country—friendless, stuck in Moscow’s shadow, possessing a tiny, obsolete military. The paranoia seems strongest from Neoconservatives who otherwise demand that the U.S. dominate the globe, bombing,...
How changing Ukrainian society impacts the chances for peace
In this commentary for PONARS Eurasia, IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Samuel Charap analyses the changes in Ukrainian society since the 2014 crisis. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
What lessons Trump, Putin can learn from the 1986 US-Soviet summit
What lessons Trump, Putin can learn from the 1986 US-Soviet summitThree decades on, as the leaders of Russia and the United States prepare for their first meeting since the 2016 U.S. election, the 1986 Soviet-American summit opened a new path in relations between the nuclear superpowers. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American...
What Putin is up to, and why he may have overplayed his hand
Each year on December 20, the Russian intelligence community pays homage to its enduring guardianship of the Motherland. It was on this date in 1917, six weeks after the Bolshevik Revolution, that Vladimir Lenin established the Cheka, an acronym for “Emergency Commission.” Over the ensuing decades, the commission’s nomenclature and...
