At the very moment that the international investigation of the downing of the Malaysian jetliner concluded that Moscow was behind that terrorist act, Western leaders and businessmen were in St. Petersburg to cozy up with Vladimir Putin and...
The elections for the Bundestag, the German parliament, are approaching and Moscow’s attempts to influence the outcome of the ballot box have failed to materialize. One of the reasons might be that the expected maintenance of the...
“If a free trade treaty with the USA brings hundreds of thousands of Germans onto the street but the horrible bombing of Aleppo doesn’t result in any public protest then there is something wrong with political standards these...
The Normandy Four meeting with the participation of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany took place in Berlin on the night of 19-20 October. The negotiations lasted for 4 hours, accompanied by protests outside the residence of...
Elections in ORDLO (occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) are currently impossible because of the complicated security situation in the region, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a press briefing on Monday, June 27, after...
Russian commentator Lilia Shevtsova argues that Moscow is about to be offered a way out of isolation but on the West’s terms rather than its own, an argument that if true would suggest some dramatic changes in both Moscow and Western...
Kyiv must reject calls by Berlin and Paris to change the Ukrainian constitution and allow elections in the occupied Donbas because these calls, which reflect Moscow’s exploitation of the desire of the two European leaders to be seen as...
Most commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin is supporting the Russian extreme right to force the governments of Germany and other European countries to lift sanctions against his country, Igor Eidman says; but in fact, Putin’s...
On 13 February 2016, the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia will once again meet to discuss the peace deal that was supposed to be a political resolution for an undeclared war in East Ukraine, but is now...
No, this is no longer appeasement. Few have dared to call German and French negotiation strategies with Russia in the Normandy-group and beyond as what they have been from the beginning: vain efforts to appease Russia (they haves been...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
