Section: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA)
Moscow’s Twisted History Lessons
Russia’s Victory Day, celebrated on May 9th, has for decades been its most unifying event of the year domestically and its least controversial holiday internationally. But because of the peculiarities of the Kremlin’s politics of history, Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the ongoing struggle over Ukraine, even the celebration...
Elusive as Ever: The State of Iranian-Russian Cooperation
With relations between Russia and the West having deteriorated sharply over Ukraine, Moscow has stepped up its efforts to improve Russian-Iranian relations. While some progress has been made on this front, the many longstanding differences in their relations serve to limit the extent to which Iran and Russia can cooperate. …read more...
The Revolution of Dignity Art Exhibit: Images from Ukraine’s Maidan, 2013-2014 – NOW EXTENDED!
The Revolution of Dignity Art Exhibit: Images from Ukraine’s Maidan, 2013-2014 presents to the Washington, D.C. public 17 Ukrainian artists: Julia Beliaeva, Glib Vysheslavsky, Anton Hauk, Olena Golub, Maryana Honcharenko, Andriy Yermolenko, Nick Zavilinskyi, Marian Luniv, Olexa Mann, Roman Mykhailiuk, Anastasiya Nekypela, Mariya Pavlenko,...
Debunked: Why There Won’t Be Another Cold War
In the wake of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, talk of a “New Cold War” is in vogue. Even experts who studied the Soviet Union and Russia from the depths of mutually assured destruction and détente to the fall of Communism now say that it will be decades again before “normal” relations between Russia and the West can resume. We disagree....
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is treading water in a sea of red ink
As President Vladimir Putin looks out on to the world stage, he should be relishing Russia’s renewed status as a global player. But when Putin looks homeward, he sees a different reality. Three months into 2015, Russia’s economic forecast ranges from gloomy to catastrophic. Yet in contrast to his aggressive response in Ukraine, Putin...
The War in Ukraine: The Roots of Russian Conduct
A year after the annexation of Crimea and the start of hostilities in Eastern Ukraine, the sequence of events leading up to the crisis are well established. Yet these events find their origins in Russia’s recent and distant past, as well as the EU’s image of a modern, post-WWII Europe. Join us for a panel discussion of the origins of...
Kennan Cable No.6: Peace and Energy in Ukraine… and Russia
Ukraine remains at a precipice between increased military escalation with Russia and eastern separatists, and concerted efforts – the latest in Minsk – to achieve a diplomatic settlement that recognizes its sovereignty and independence. If diplomacy prevails, President Poroshenko and his government will face a daunting agenda of defining a viable...
Russian-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Ukraine
The Middle East Program and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center present Russian-Iranian Relations in the Shadow of Ukraine with Mark Katz Professor of Government and Politics, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, and former scholar, Woodrow Wilson CenterDirections: Directions to the...
Don’t Doubt the Ceasefire
The second Minsk ceasefire agreement, signed on February 12, had an inauspicious beginning. Just after the ceasefire was supposed to come into effect, the separatist rebels forced Ukrainian troops to retreat from the encircled city of Debaltseve. The city’s fall, and the continued fighting along the front, could prove to be an early end to...
Kennan Cable No.5: Euromaidan Revisited: Causes of Regime Change in Ukraine One Year On
A year has passed since mass protests on the Maidan in Ukraine’s capital Kiev culminated in bloodshed and president Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly fled to Russia. Since then, Ukraine has plunged into a bloody civil conflict and a war by proxy with Russia. Relations between Russia and the West are continuing to worsen, and Europe has come to...
