According to military strength rankings, Russia holds the second strongest military in the world. On paper, Ukraine’s military budget is smaller than that of city-state Singapore, as approximated by The Economist. Despite these...
The results of the February 27 referendum claimed 65.16% support for the changes in the Belarusian constitution, strengthening Lukashenka’s hold over the country and shedding Belarus’s neutral and non-nuclear status. This...
Finnish era of “Finlandization” After the Second World War, Finland remained an “odd man out” on the European continent. Following the Hitler-Stalin Pact also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, the Soviet...
Imagine a contemporary French President ordering the French army to occupy the German Saarland, and then say: “Germany is an anti-French project constructed by British authors.” … “There has been no Germany for a...
On 26 February 2022, Russia blocked a UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution on Ukraine condemning the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, despite having an obvious conflict of interests in the area. The Helsinki Final Act of 1975...
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock addressed a special meeting of the German Parliament on Sunday. Her speech is historic for the country, as well as for the rest of Europe. Denouncing Russia’s attack on Ukraine as a war on...
Russian attack of all of Ukraine: live updates No-fly zone A no-fly zone, or an air-exclusion zone, means a full or partial demilitarization of the air space over a given country, preventing any non-authorized flights from either of the...
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...
