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2017/06/07 - 09:08 •
Analysis & Opinion, Armenia, Belarus, Economy, Russia, Ukraine
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those they list as enemies, Andrey Illarionov says; but the former are falling ever further behind the latter both in terms of GDP per...
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2016/12/06 - 03:49 •
Analysis & Opinion, Featured, Military analysis
By now, it is a well-known story: in the early 1990s, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union in exchange for security assurances from nuclear weapons states, which Russia...
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2016/12/04 - 10:12 •
Analysis & Opinion, History, Politics, Russia
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new commentary, he argues that it was British support for Poland, not the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Hitler and Stalin, that was...
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2016/09/09 - 17:12 •
Russia
The famous case of the Zaslavskiy brothers is now eight years old. In 2008-2009, Russia accused Ilya Zaslavskiy, an employee of the company TNK-BP, and his brother Oleksandr, of transferring confidential industry information to British...
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2016/08/05 - 04:11 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, War in the Donbas
Since January 2014, 18 countries have provided 164.1 million US dollars’ worth of non-lethal military aid to Ukraine, with more than 80 percent of that coming from just two countries, the United States which has given 117.6 million US...
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2015/10/08 - 16:28 •
Op-ed
This week I will visit Ukraine for the fourth time as Minister for European Affairs. This is an opportunity for me to consider the challenges which your country has faced during these last two years. I well remember how I stood on the...
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