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Nicole Gallina is a central European politologist who publishes on Eastern European topics and political theoretical questions, and teaches regularly at Swiss and Eastern European Universities.
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...
Islamic terrorists attack Paris, and western leaders quickly readmit Russia in their circles. Obama, Merkel, Hollande – all of them suddenly talk with Putin without problems. Does the fight against a terror group really need an...
Despite continued efforts from official bodies (western politicians, ATO-staff etc.) it is increasingly difficult to hide that Russia still has no interest in a real cease-fire: Terrorist units keep attacking Ukrainian positions around the...
The Dutch Safety Board, legal representatives of victims and journalists have accused Ukraine that its authorities failed to close its airspace – and implicitly argued the disaster would have not happened if they would have...
There are three essential reasons why reports of Western investigators or Western mass media will hardly bring justice to the MH17 victims: Their arrogance and old-fashioned work codes that tend to ignore social media and the quick and...
Foreign Policy wrote yesterday: In June 2014, two US defense experts were asked “to run a thought exercise called a ‘table top’, a sort of war game between two teams: the red team (Russia) and the blue team (NATO). The...
Just a few days ago, the Russian Prosecutor General found that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to Ukraine in 1954 was unconstitutional – and now the same general prosecution is going to question the legality of the...
Specialists from the group “Mirotvorets” acquired documents from the Russian General Staff that confirm Russia’s intentions to invade and occupy the Ukrainian territories east of the Dnipro river. The General Staff of...
Russia is pushing its preparations to create a prerequisite for an invasion of the Baltic states. On June 11, Russian hackers posted an announcement on the site of the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense: The ongoing NATO exercise Saber Strike...
“We always had friends and supporters there” In such a way the Russian president Vladimir Putin assessed Russia and Germany’s long-term relationship during a common press conference with German Chancellor...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
