Romania Cuts Taxes, Serbia Blasts Albanian ‘Unification’ Talk
Plus, new fighting breaks out near Mariupol; Georgian Chechens plead for help to stop IS recruiting. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Zwischen Allianzfreiheit und Einbindung
Alarmiert durch die Ukraine-Krise und Russlands militärische Aktivitäten in der Ostsee-Region, führen Finnland und Schweden derzeit eine intensive Debatte über ihre nationale Sicherheit. In beiden Ländern wird angesichts einer sich wandelnden Bedrohungslage an der eigenen Verteidigungsfähigkeit gezweifelt. Zunehmend steht der...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine: “DPR” member opened fire towards an SMM patrol on the outskirts of Shyrokyne, 7 April 2015
This report is for media and the general public. On 7 April, while traveling east on road E58 toward a “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) checkpoint in Shyrokyne (20km east of Mariupol, 99km south of Donetsk), the SMM was halted by an improvised “DPR” roadblock, located on the northern edge of Shyrokyne (“DPR”-controlled). As the SMM...
The fog of ‘regular’ war
Hugh White’s considered response to the questions I posed in our recent exchange on the fundamentals of Australian defence strategy prods me to elaborate on my previous arguments as well as to make some counterpoints. On the question of irregular warfare, we seem to be in agreement that it is certainly the most common form of warfare today...
Poroshenko Open to Autonomy Referendum, Poland to Build Towers on Russian Border
Plus, Belarusian leader signs decree fining the unemployed; Czech politicians slam president over planned Moscow trip. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Crimea – One year after Russian annexation
Why the international community shouldn’t forget about Crimea …read more Source: European Policy...
Ukraine’s business and politics grew especially tight under Yanukovych
Bloodied by war and barely solvent, Ukraine is facing another threat from within: oligarchs with private security forces and steamroller business tactics inherited from decades of corruption, the Bloomberg writes. The symbiotic relationship between the country’s business and political elites grew especially tight under Viktor Yanukovych,...
Will the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine provoke Russia?
In the comment to the website Novoe Vremia, Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi said that Western weapons will enable Ukraine to reduce the number of casualties among Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Today there is an ongoing debate that the supply of Western lethal weapons to Ukraine could provoke Russia...
Democratorship: the ancient heart of Putin’s regime
by Lucio Caracciolo for Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics Russia cannot be a democracy since if it were, it would not exist. It is a multi-ethnic empire almost sixty times the size of Italy. Its population equals that of all Italians and Germans together, three-quarters of which concentrated in its European provinces and with immense and...
Moscow continues its aggressive policy
By Zaza Gachechiladze for The Messenger Friday, March 20 Moscow has just signed a treaty on alliance and partnership with the de-facto South Ossetia region. Internationally, this move has been assessed as a step taken to annex Georgian territories. The signing ceremony coincided with the anniversary of Crimea’s annexation and the...
