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Published in: oDRSweet talking in Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko is not an ideal Western-type politician, and certainly not the answer to Maidan's dreams....
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Published in: oDRLegal limbo in Crimea
Judges, prisoners and drug addicts are all in legal limbo in Crimea because the judicial status of Russia’s new...
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Published in: oDRIgor Strelkov – Moscow agent or military romantic?
Who is Igor Strelkov? He has power, but by whose authority?
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Published in: oDRSymbolism of the Donetsk People’s Republic
A new republic, even one – especially one – as uncertain in status as the Donetsk People’s Republic, needs all the...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's blackmail system
In Ukraine, businessmen are pressured to give financial and political support to the authorities or to testify...
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Published in: oDRThe battle for Donetsk
People are not yet calling the situation in Eastern Ukraine a ‘civil war,’ but the battle for Donetsk might change...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ukraine in a European context
All in all, the fall of an unpopular, corrupt and ineffective government in Ukraine initiated by pro-EU...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland’s diplomatic offensive in Ukraine and Europe
It manages to strike hard without straying from the politics that have defined Poland's conciliatory and unifying...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ukraine: lessons from the Balkans nightmare
One key driver of escalation in the Balkans in the early 1990s also poses a continuing risk as the Ukraine crisis...
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Published in: HomeA warmed-up cold war
The east-west dispute over Crimea is full of tensions within as well as between each side. Its drivers include the...
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Published in: HomeEurope freezes, Eurasia pivots
Behind the crisis in Ukraine lie deeper changes that are transforming the global economic and and political order,...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy blooming at the margins: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and Taiwan
The terrifying spectre in these countries is not of ravenous foreign capital, though there is plenty of experience...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ukraine and Eurasia's imperial fault-lines
The current conflict has been brewing for a long time and is the result of two asymmetrical imperialisms: Russia's...
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Published in: civilResistanceChallenging annexation: in Crimea, the referendum that wasn’t
The time has come – unfortunately in the midst of another political and human crisis – for the international...
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Published in: HomeA tale of two speeches
Vladimir Putin's vision of Russia's destiny has parallels with George W Bush's of the United States in the aftermath...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Poland must rediscover its anti-fascist voice
It is imperative that Poland finds an independent voice that includes a condemnation of the far-right both at home...
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Published in: openSecurityResisting our cold war instincts
Recent events in Ukraine have led some to question if it might have benefited from a nuclear deterrent. Rather than...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From the Baltic to the Black Sea: things get out of control
Watching the exit polls on the Crimea referendum in Moscow, Iannis Carras contemplates the implications for a Europe...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new European bipolarity
Russia and the EU are re-entering a state of bipolarity. How can the EU continue to provide peace and prosperity in...
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Published in: oDRCrime and politics in Crimea
The link between crime and politics in Crimea has been evident for some time. Now, crime boss Sergei Aksyonov – the...