The UK has had for many years a stable democratic process, with strong institutions. But what happens after a while is that those institutions become themselves resistant to change. They develop and operate on the default setting that...
Even though the Russian media are providing ever less coverage of Ukraine and Russia’s involvement there than only a year ago, Russians are gaining a deeper appreciation of what that Putin-initiated conflict has cost them because Russian...
There are many differences between the Russian seizure of Crimea and Russian actions in the Donbas, but perhaps the most important if sometimes ignored one is this, Pavlo Kazarin says. Crimea was carried out by the regular Russian army,...
The current conflict between Russia and the West provide an opportunity to create an International Day of Memory of the Victims of Russian Aggression in order to be “an eternal reminder to Russians both now and future generations that...
Recent days have featured a drumbeat of developments suggesting Russia is preparing for war: Moscow has boosted its military spending, Vladimir Putin has told businesses to go on a military footing, Patriarch Kirill has spoken about a...
Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again acceptance of Vladimir Putin’s claim that Moscow didn’t interfere in the 2016 US presidential elections has the effect, like the focus on Watergate scandal during the Nixon Administration of...
There are different ways in which Russia tries to spread its influence in Estonia. As a former member of the Soviet Union, Russia’s current neighbor, and a country where 25% of the population is Russian, Estonia is attacked with...
On 2 October 2017, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported it detained a gang plotting to blow up a Hungarian monument in Ukraine’s westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast, home to a significant Hungarian minority. The timing for the...
Hybrid war has been a buzzword surrounding Ukraine for more than three years. But the country has dealt with its effects for longer than that. YULIIA LAPUTINA, DEPUTY CHIEF OF CYBER DEFENCE AT THE SBU: In 2007 a fund was created by Russian...
Is Ukraine a recipient, or contributor to regional security? Recently, there have been speculations that Ukraine is becoming a source of insecurity that cannot contribute to the stability and security of the transatlantic region. Over the...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
