Items tagged with: Kremlin

Many observers believe Ukraine should officially sacrifice the country’s Euro-Atlantic ambitions in order to ease Kremlin concerns, but a fresh commitment to geopolitical neutrality may only encourage further Russian imperialism

Ukrainian leader continues to pay tribute to country’s fallen heroes but faces growing anger over lack of justice for Euromaidan killings and military shortcomings

For the past three years, Russia has been waging an increasingly audacious hybrid war against the entire Western world. The end goals are to fatally undermine Western institutions and reverse the verdict of the Cold War. So far, the Kremlin is...

Former Estonian FM Marina Kaljurand on Donald Trump, EU sanctions, NATO military spending, and the Russian hybrid war in Ukraine

International Criminal Court acknowledges Russian military aggression in Ukraine but any talk of future war crimes trial remains premature

Estonian Ambassador Gert Antsu on his country's support for Ukrainian e-governance and the challenges of living with the new Russian realities

Russia’s hybrid war tactics in Ukraine depend on a smokescreen of ambiguity. All too often, the international media has been happy to oblige

Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky says Putinism will collapse if Kremlin retreats from Ukraine

Russia will never accept loss of Ukraine but examples of Israel and South Korea show hostile neighborhoods are no barrier to progress

Moscow must explain why Russia’s elaborate MH17 theories went so far beyond mere denials

Ukrainian Independence Day used to be an ambiguous holiday but Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war has served to imbue the holiday with powerful meaning and patriotic poignancy

The Kremlin relies on force because it has no answer to the historic rejection of Russia that began with the fall of the Soviet Union

Nation building in the age of globalization: Russia's accidental but important role in the search for an inclusive sense of Ukrainian identity in the post-Soviet era

Russian hybrid tactics have changed the face of modern warfare and transformed international war reporters into unwitting accomplices - new forms of warfare require a new lexicon to bring clarity to the 21st century battlefield

Russia's ongoing information attack on Ukraine comes at a time when the digital revolution is undermining the sanctity of facts among global audiences. Ukraine's best chance of fighting back may be to focus on emotional engagement rather than...

Russian Orthodox Church losing ground in Ukraine as parishes switch allegiance to Kyiv Patriarchate over Moscow support for Kremlin aggression

Alarm bells ringing over Ukraine’s potentially disastrous campaign to suspend IDP social payments and pensions

Ukrainian society is desperate for new leadership figures and is being dangerously alienated by a political culture devoid of ideology and dominated by populism

The West's failure to speak sufficiently plainly about Russian aggression in Ukraine has served to enable the Kremlin's hybrid war strategy while paving the way for a potentially disastrous 'Potemkin Peace' conceding continued Russian control...