Escalation of tension in the Donbas
The most intense armed clashes between separatists and Ukrainian government forces since the beginning of this year have taken place in Avdiyivka. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern Studies...
‘Foreign State’ Likely Behind Czech ForMin Computer Breach, Minister Says
In a most likely unrelated development, Russia has reportedly accused two top cyber-agents of working with the CIA. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Biggest German Bank Admits It Laundered Billions for Russian Clients
‘Mirror trading’ scheme had no evident economic purpose, New York financial regulator says. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Everyone-loses
Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international...
Berlin’s New Pragmatism in an Era of Radical Uncertainty
Photo credit: elxeneize / Shutterstock, Inc. Abstract: Germany has emerged as the EU’s central economic and political power in today’s crisis-ridden Europe. The U.K., after the Brexit vote, has probably dropped out of global crisis management for quite a while and the United States, under President Barack Obama, already significantly...
Three Confess to Kadyrov Assassination Plot: Report
Though details remain sketchy, the affair seems to center around a feud between the Chechen leader and a prominent local family. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Postcards Commemorating Ukraine War Dead Capture Human Dimension
Sent to people all across the world, the postcards aim to “make the war more personal,” says project’s initiator. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea: Defense Lawyers Harassed
(Kyiv) – Russian authorities have detained two human rights lawyers who represent prominent Crimean Tatar leaders, Human Rights Watch said today. The lawyers’ clients are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges in retaliation for their activism. Emil Kurbedinov, who was detained on January 26, 2017, and Nikolai Polozov, detained...
Trump Can Fix the Defects in U.S. Foreign Policy
Ted Galen Carpenter In administration after administration over the decades, U.S. foreign policy has habitually exhibited several of the same deficiencies. Although those defects and blind spots were evident throughout the Cold War, they have become more noticeable and worrisome since the end of that struggle. Today, they are glaringly apparent...
How to Make ‘America First’ Truly Great
Doug Bandow Only Donald Trump would attempt to rescue the phrase “America First” from its slightly discreditable heritage. Unfortunately, his sales job has been incomplete and unconvincing. Now, someone needs to rescue the same phrase from his crabbed, negative meaning. The dominant foreign-policy vision animating left and right in recent years...
