NEWS OF POLITICS OF POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES
At the conclusion of the first Ukraine Recovery Conference in Switzerland on July 4-5, representatives of 42 donor countries and five international organizations issued the Lugano Declaration. This document identified…
Vladimir Putin escalated his war against Ukrainian statehood on July 11 by expanding the fast-track distribution of Russian passports to include the whole of Ukraine. The move builds on legislation…
Around 20% of Ukraine is currently under Russian occupation. Along with the pressing military and human rights issues this creates, Russia’s ongoing invasion has also produced a range of public…
News of Boris Johnson’s resignation has sparked concern in Kyiv and celebrations in Moscow. However, both reactions are probably wide of the mark. Far from heralding a geopolitical shift in…
Since the middle of June, Russian producer Gazprom has reduced gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 corridor to Germany by around 60
Ukraine’s synchronization with the electricity grid of continental Europe moved up a gear at the end of June with the landmark launch of commercial exports to neighboring Romania. Such…
The Mayor of Ukrainian Black Sea port city Odesa announced last week that he was making British Prime Minister Boris Johnson an honorary citizen. This was not the first time…
For the past century at least, the Kremlin leadership has failed to understand the West. Though it has at times succeeded in manipulating the West and conducting espionage operations against…
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Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny recently went missing for a few hours. Poisoned and jailed on trumped-up charges, Navalny has spent the last 18 months in prison, occasionally passing…