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About Geneva meeting

20:55 20.04.2014 Dmitry Babich

About Geneva meeting

I think the Geneva meeting was a belated realization of something the ex-president Viktor Yanukovich suggested doing back in November 2013, when the first scandals around his refusal to sign the Associsation Agreement with the EU erupted. At the time (which looks like a distant epoche now) he suggested TRILATERAL …

Morning Brief: Ukrainian Government Retakes Buildings Occupied by Secessionists

13:29 11.04.2014

Morning Brief: Ukrainian Government Retakes Buildings Occupied by Secessionists

Ukrainian Government Retakes Buildings Occupied by Secessionists Top News: The Ukrainian government in Kiev said this morning that they had regained control over government buildings seized yesterday by pro-Russian separatists in Kharkiv. Government buildings in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk remain occupied. The secessionists occupying government facilities in …

Af-Pak: the challenge of stability and the role of Russia

14:26 08.04.2014 Francesco Brunello Zanitti

Af-Pak: the challenge of stability and the role of Russia

The main core of the book Af-Pak: the challenge of stability (Francesco Brunello Zanitti, Af-Pak: la sfida della stabilità, Fuoco Edizioni/IsAG, Rome 2014) is the presentation of future hypothetical scenarios of Afghanistan and Pakistan, considering ISAF’s withdrawal expected by the end of 2014. For many historical, geographical, cultural and economic …

Firemen or fire starters? Opportunies for agreement following the referendum in the Crimea

16:46 04.04.2014 Igor Pellicciari

Firemen or fire starters? Opportunies for agreement following the referendum in the Crimea

The causes of Moscow’s action in the Ukrainian crisis are much more complicated than that represented by the stereotypical analysis in the Western media and academic circles.The dominant discourse in the U.S. and Europe is a consensus that the Kremlin is commanded by one man alone, and because we are …

Serbia was a testing ground for Western strategists

13:52 01.04.2014 Konstantin Kachalin

Serbia was a testing ground for Western strategists

On March 27th, 1999 in Brussels, the NATO leadership could not believe what they were hearing. For the first time in the history of its combat operations, a highly "secret" U.S. Air Force stealth fighter plane was not only detected by Yugoslavian air defense radar, but it was also shot …

Valentina Matviyenko, "I always have, and I always will, uphold and defend Russia’s national interests"

22:52 31.03.2014

Valentina Matviyenko, "I always have, and I always will, uphold and defend Russia’s national interests"

The Chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, talked about sanctions by the White House, the possible appearance of Maidan protests in other countries, and the Crimean referendum. The Chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, spoke in an interview with Russian newspaper "Izvestia" about her vision of the current …

Vyacheslav Svetlichny "The referendum in the Crimea - a lesson in patriotism!”

11:29 22.03.2014 Sergey Filatov

Vyacheslav Svetlichny "The referendum in the Crimea - a lesson in patriotism!”

Vyacheslav Svetlichny in the workplace during the referendum in the Crimea. Photo by the author. The light was burning day and night in the office of the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Crimea, Vyacheslav Svetlichny, in the days leading up to the referendum, and it seemed like it …

Vladimir Putin addressed State Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin

10:19 18.03.2014

Vladimir Putin addressed State Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Federation Council members, State Duma deputies, good afternoon. Representatives of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol are here among us, citizens of Russia, residents of Crimea and Sevastopol! Dear friends, we have gathered here today in connection with an issue that is of vital, historic …

The crisis in Ukraine: a British perspective

12:30 15.03.2014 Anna Tomkins

The crisis in Ukraine: a British perspective

These are nervous times for the international community. There are serious tensions between Ukraine and Russia, with a constant risk of a miscalculation in the situation. The actions of a single “hot head” could have dire consequences for the region as a whole, and the possibility of the breakup of …

Stop the Cold War way of thinking!

14:29 12.03.2014 Alexey Khlebnikov

Stop the Cold War way of thinking!

Recent weeks brought up one of the hottest topics for discussion within the decades, especially in the West – the crisis over Ukraine. Hundreds if not thousands of articles that analyze the whole situation around this Eastern European country have been published. The vast majority of those analyses is concentrated …

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