Russia’s Stealth Invasion of Ukraine
It appears that the Russian invasion of Ukraine that I have feared since March has now begun in earnest, with the opening of a new front in the vicinity of…
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The Poroshenko Phenomenon: Elections and Challenges Ahead
(By Olexiy Haran and Petro Burkovsky) Back in 2005, it seemed that Petro Poroshenko, then serving as secretary for the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, would be entirely…
EU Will Likely Get a Bad Deal On Ukraine
(The Moscow Times) The recent flurry of European diplomatic activity on the crisis in Ukraine suggests that a trilateral compromise between the EU, Russia and Ukraine may be in the making. Or, at least, this would be the EU's preferred…
Russia’s Decorative Discursive Mimicry
The most persistent component of a variety of Russian pro-Kremlin discourses is its mimicry and imitation of the West. This was so in the 1990s and it still remains the…
Why Sanctions Against Russia Might Backfire
(Huffington Post/Berggruen Institute) Will Western sanctions against Russia work? It's not clear what that question means, since it isn't obvious what Russia has to do to end them. It doesn't…
Haran: Putin is manoeuvring, because a direct military intervention would be extremely dangerous for him
(Institute for War & Peace Reporting) Russian Aid Convoy Set to Enter Ukraine – An agreement to allow Russia to deliver humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine seems near after Kiev…
A Tale of Two Russian Narratives
(Carnegie Forum on Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations) Two broad narratives have come to dominate debates about the sources of Russian foreign policy toward Ukraine. The “domestic politics” view argues that concerns…
Why Russia Intervenes
(Carnegie Forum on Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations) The ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine has attracted extensive news coverage and political commentary in the United States. Reading the commentary, one often…
Personalization and Patriotism
(Carnegie Forum on Rebuilding U.S.-Russia Relations) American media narratives generally tend to excessively personalize politics and international affairs, and recent coverage of Russia is no exception to this overall trend.…
Marten: Putin continues old deceptive practices with aid convoy
(The Christian Science Monitor) A Russian convoy of over 200 trucks allegedly carrying humanitarian aid to conflict-ridden eastern Ukraine is moving towards a rebel-controlled checkpoint creating an international guessing game…