Sanctions against Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian regimes are like those imposed in the past against apartheid in South Africa: morally necessary but insufficient by themselves to cause political change. And moving up forces to...
Ukrainians have witnessed a highly volatile situation of turmoil unfolding in their country. While there is restrained optimism after leaders met at the Minsk summit to search for ways to prevent the insurgency from further escalating,...
Moscow believes that its attack on Mariupol and its envelopment of a significant Ukrainian force will put Russia in a position to force Kyiv to capitulate, Moscow commentator Boris Sokolov says; but he argues that Ukraine still has the...
Faced with mounting problems at home and abroad, Vladimir Putin seeks “a breathing space,” one he believes he can obtain now in the same way he has in the past by “a combination of the imitation of concessions … and attempts at...
Ukrainians and others increasingly recognize that Russia will change its approach to Ukraine only when Russia itself changes, a conclusion that has led many to consider how Russia might change and reflect on what Ukraine must do until its...
Gazprom has started a game with goals to deprive Ukraine from gas in its strategic reserves, disrupt gas supplies to the EU in January, and to revive the South Stream pipeline project. Mykhailo Honchar, president of the Center...
Miller described Russia’s new strategy for gas market. The head of the Russian company Gazprom in an interview to Vesti stated that the principles of Russian participation in the gas market will be completely changed. “Our...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
