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Dirk Mattheisen is a writer and blogger on political economy with a focus on European affairs. He is also an independent consultant on institutional governance of international economic and financial institutions. Dirk Mattheisen is a former Assistant Corporate Secretary of The World Bank Group.
A state in decline is a dangerous thing. An autocrat in decline is even more so. Putin’s provocations have caught the West off-balance for too long, resulting in a series of provocations in Putin’s confrontation with the West. The...
Trenin writes, “Berlin is ending the era launched by Gorbachev of a trusting and friendly relationship with Moscow.” The sentence implies that the break in the relations is a German initiative, rather than a response to a...
Heidi Blake’s, From Russia With Blood, about Russian state-sponsored attacks and murders of individuals in Russia and abroad, including Russian defectors Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko and others, is a gripping read. But the...
On June 19, the Public Prosecution Service of The Netherlands announced it will prosecute four suspects, three Russian and one Ukrainian, for aiding in the shooting down in 2014 of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine, killing all...
On March 31 Ukraine delivered what democracies dream of, a hotly contested but free and fair presidential election. Nearly 63 percent of voters turned out. A striking 39 candidates ran for president, but the race boiled down to three;...
As Ukraine strives to emerge as a strong and independent nation, Russian disinformation works to undermine its legitimacy. Disinformation has a powerful influence on Western public and policy makers’ understanding of the issues affecting...
Buffeted by rapacious oligarchs and invasion by Russia, Ukraine seems an unlikely success story. However, renewed economic growth is fueling a growing sense of optimism and of opportunity. There are a few things getting in the way. But...
In response to a recent article on prospects for the Russian economy (Russia: All Scenarios Are Bad in Interiabiznes, a Polish news service), a commenter who can be inferred to be a young Russian professional inveighed against the argument...
In a recent article, “Russia Increasingly Treats Georgia As Its Prospective Satellite,” Vasili Rukhadze, political analyst at the Jamestown Foundation, writes that Georgia has recently experienced a “heightened level of Russian...
As Russia approaches its 2018 presidential election, dissent in Russia has taken an ominous turn. A wide-spread truckers’ strike against road tolls pits the working class against the oligarchs. An unexpectedly large “youth protest”...
James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Security, Tallinn, Associate Fellow, Russia & Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, London By voicing his “insistence” on...
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