The Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has asked the Council of European Foreign Ministers on 13 December to launch the Nord Stream 2 pipeline quickly. The project is “finished, now we should use it,” he said. On...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its “entourage.” It starts with the...
The Austrian architecture company Coop Himmelb(l)au, which designed an opera theater complex in Russian-occupied Crimea, had secretly worked on the project after public denials. This follows from information shared with Euromaidan Press by...
The Crimean story of the Vienna-based architecture firm Coop Himmelb(l)au began in January 2019 when the Russian occupation authorities of the Crimean city of Sevastopol bragged to Russian media that the “famous Austrian...
A plaque commemorating Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna and Cardinal of the Catholic Church, was unveiled at the Archbishop’s Palace of Vienna. Innitzer was the only foreign spiritual leader who, in 1933, established the...
49% of the EU’s imports of skis and snowboards in 2016 came from Ukraine, according to Eurostat. Out of a total 1.5 million imported skis and snowboards, 731 400 items came from Ukraine, followed by China (420 600 items,...
The route of the direct train between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the Austrian capital Vienna is already visible online in Austria’s federal railway system Österreichische Bundesbahnen. The first train is...
Vladimir Putin’s regime, which has always been authoritarian and kleptocratic, nonetheless has evolved over the course of the last 18 years through four stages and now is entering its fifth and final one, according to Moscow...
There are powers in the world and in Ukraine advocating neutrality based on the Austrian model. Considering how rich Austria is today, it is tempting to claim its success is connected to its neutrality and based on this to attempt to...
Seventy-nine years ago today, Adolf Hitler issued the law on the unification of Austria and Germany, an event subsequently known as the Anschluss, and one that both resembles and differs from what Vladimir Putin did in the case of...
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...
