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Kakachia: Moscow seeks new avenues for gaining support in Georgia

(Transitions Online) Friday 27 June not only brought Georgia into closer association with the European Union – perhaps even more remarkably, it brought the country’s bitterly divided political factions into…

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Baev: Sanctions not only fully justified, but also clearly insufficient

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Thursday’s (July 17) missile hit on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that killed 298 people and left a field of scattered remains in the Donetsk region, some 50…

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Who Shot Down MH17?

Today’s press conference by the Russian MOD shows that the Russian government has decided to double down on its narrative that the Ukrainian military is responsible for shooting down Malaysian Airlines…

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Will the Malaysia Airlines tragedy change the trajectory of events in Ukraine?

The crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-controlled area of eastern Ukraine thrust the conflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed rebels into renewed international focus. The three…

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Act now, or face war in Ukraine

(CNN) The shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine may finally force Washington and Europe to wake up to the danger of the conflict there escalating into full-blown war…

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Latvia’s 2015 EU Presidency – Already Devising Pathways through Thorny Environs

The recent German-Nordic-Baltic Forum in Riga was an exercise in furnishing new ideas for the forthcoming half-year Latvian EU presidency starting in January 2015. Along with brainstorming ways to strengthen…

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Gorenburg, Marten: Future of Russian presence in eastern Ukraine

(The Economist) A “NON-LINEAR” war, explains Natan Dubovitsky, a writer, is how states are likely to fight each other in future—if they do not already. Individual regions or cities will…

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Ukraine’s Impact on Russia

Domestically at least, Putin has profited handsomely from the recent turmoil in Ukraine. According to the Levada-Centre, a polling organisation, just before major protests erupted against former President Yanukovich in…

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Putin’s Balancing Act: Interview with Kimberly Marten

(Council on Foreign Relations) President Vladimir Putin is in many ways a "great balancer," trying to maintain the support of various factions in Russia, explains long-time Russia expert Kimberly Marten.…

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Official Russian Messages in Europe Contain Questionable Parallels and Dubious Conclusions

A few days ago, I had the chance to observe the vicissitudes of Russian foreign policy communication in action. The same day the EU Association Agreement was signed with Ukraine,…

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Kakachia: Moscow seeks new avenues for gaining support in Georgia

Baev: Sanctions not only fully justified, but also clearly insufficient

Who Shot Down MH17?

Will the Malaysia Airlines tragedy change the trajectory of events in Ukraine?

Act now, or face war in Ukraine

Latvia’s 2015 EU Presidency – Already Devising Pathways through Thorny Environs

Gorenburg, Marten: Future of Russian presence in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine’s Impact on Russia

Putin’s Balancing Act: Interview with Kimberly Marten

Official Russian Messages in Europe Contain Questionable Parallels and Dubious Conclusions