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Ukraine: Understanding Russia
With the Ukraine crisis casting a long shadow over the Wales Summit, NATO must strive to understand Russia’s mindset …read more Source: Royal United Services...
Ageing railways, poor-quality roads and an inadequate response by the authorities to calls for basic services are the weak underbelly of the Russian infrastructure system.Download the articleThe Russian language has a specific word to describe the conditions of roads during particularly adverse weather. Rasputitsa usually describes heavy snow or mud, which makes traversing these roads almost impossible. That such a word exists, to illustrate the difficulties in getting around this vast country, highlights the continued importance of basic infrastructure, such as roads and railways, in Russian thinking.Russia remains highly reliant on roads and railways to transport large volumes of people …read more Source: Royal United Services Institute...
The EU recently marked the 10th anniversary of its Eastern Partnership, a cooperation framework directed at Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, countries critical to European security but not facing the immediate and sometimes not even distant prospect of EU membership.Since the inception of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) a decade ago, the EU’s approach to designing and implementing its policy has always been at least in part modular and bilateral. This has been as much a necessity as it has been a choice, and arguably pre-dates the EaP as evidenced by the Partnership and Cooperation Agreements of the late …read more Source: Royal United Services...
With the Ukraine crisis casting a long shadow over the Wales Summit, NATO must strive to understand Russia’s mindset …read more Source: Royal United Services...
