Russia’s Supreme Court to Hear Ukrainian Filmmaker’s Appeal
Lawyer for Crimea native Oleg Sentsov, jailed for 20 years on terrorism charges, hopes for reduced sentence. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Helping Ukraine to reform Naftogaz’s gas transmission business
This op-ed was originally published in the Kyiv Post. It will also be published in Vox Ukraine. Naftogaz, the giant publically-owned Ukrainian oil and gas company with 80,000 employees, used to be a synonym for wastage, corruption and opacity. But it looks like it might have turned a corner. Thanks to a new management team, a fourfold increase in...
Blackout Grips Much of Crimea
Russian-controlled region under state of emergency as weekend blasts sever power supplies from Ukraine. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
State of Emergency in Crimea After Power Lines Blown Up
Crimea has declared a state of emergency after its main electricity lines from Ukraine were blown… …read more Source: American Security Council...
Perspectives for NATO-Russia Relations
Institutional relations between NATO and Russia have been suspended since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the war in eastern Ukraine. Conflicting ideas about Euro-Atlantic security have left the relationship deeply and lastingly damaged. This makes it all the more important to gain clarity about the determining factors and...
Russians Offered Black Gold to Lose Weight
The move is part of a regional government’s push to raise awareness of the problem of obesity. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Is NATO Deterrence Fit for Purpose?
The Atlantic Alliance must respond to Russia’s new strategic posture – but large, fixed deployments may not be the answerThere is now a fundamental divergence in world views between the NATO powers and Russia. The West sees Russia as being on the strategic offensive – in the process,challenging a European rules-based order where small...
Is Russia’s Syria Intervention Doomed to Fail?
Russia has dived headfirst into the Syrian civil war – but this might be a strategic dead endIn late September Russia commenced its air campaign over Syria, prompting widespread criticism from Western leaders. It is clear that Moscow is pursuing very different objectives from those of the West. Indeed, the actions of Russian forces in Syria...
Putin’s Gambit in Syria
Recent Russian military operations should not come as a surprise – for twenty years, the Kremlin has been trying to restore the country’s status as a world leaderThe world can be divided into two: those who ‘get’ modern Russia and those who do not. At the moment, most of the world falls into the latter category, with much of the...
Reinventing European Deterrence
NATO faces a number of practical challenges in deterring Russian aggression. But political commitment may be the most important of all. Like it or not, the threat of conventional warfare in Europe is back and generals on the continent are worried. At a meeting of the army chiefs of some forty countries at the headquarters of the US Army in Europe...
