The Rules Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will shortly be considering a report from the ad hoc Commission set up by the Bureau to examine the future role and mission of PACE. One of the points on...
Leonid Polyakov, a former Ukrainian defense minister now at the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament, says that in the conflict with Russia over shipping on the Sea of Azov, Ukraine has law on its side but lacks both...
The European Values Kremlin Watch’s “2018 Ranking of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operations” has classified Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and most recently, the UK, as “full-scale...
Pro-Kremlin news sites have an ambiguous view of international organizations (especially those related to human rights) and their recommendations. When these organizations stand up for LGBT rights they are accused of destruction of “true...
Implementation of the Russian scenario According to Kuleba, the activities masked under the codenames of “harmonization of the Assembly’s and Committee of Minister’s rules” and “reform of the sanctions...
Over the last three months, the ratings of Vladimir Putin and the Russian authorities have fallen by almost 20 percent, down to a level not seen since the protest era of 2011-2012. His ratings then led him to invade Ukraine, Viktor...
Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network” that the East German intelligence service set up in the West during the Cold War not only to achieve specific foreign...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, has decided to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, according to a Greek church site, giving a major victory to Kyiv and inflicting an even...
Oleksandr Lashchenko: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz recently expressed hope that this time there would be a real ceasefire. General Bondar, what’s happening again? Why isn’t the truce observed? Bohdan Bondar: If the international...
In a remarkable turnabout, Moscow is going to purchase specially modified naval frigates from Beijing, the result of Russia’s declining ability to produce ships at home and its inability to buy them in the West because of sanctions and...
Here is everything you need to know about one of the most disturbing scenarios unraveling in a European institution. What does PACE do, anyway? PACE, the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, is the “motor” of this institution...
