Items tagged with: Putin

The spring 2014 invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula placed Russia on the wrong side of international law and set the country on a path towards escalating hybrid hostilities with the entire Western world

Many of the Russian tactics currently being deployed to destabilize the EU were first honed in Ukraine but European leaders remain stubbornly slow to appreciate the scale of the danger they face

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

Once one of Putin’s key hybrid war objectives, the capital of east Ukraine survived the Kremlin’s insurgency attempts and is now learning to live without Russia

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...

Residents of Ukrainian frontline towns like Svitlodarsk do not qualify as IDPs but they continue to feel the full brunt of ongoing conflict with Russian hybrid forces

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

Supporting the Russian dictator has become a way for right-wing populist forces to demonstrate their anti-establishment credentials

Ukraine’s 2013-14 popular uprising has become synonymous with the European Union Association Agreement that helped spark initial protests – but the demands voiced by millions of Ukrainians focused on basic human rights not EU integration

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

Canadian Armed Forces helping Ukrainian counterparts adapt to NATO standards as Ukrainian military faces up to hybrid Russian forces in east of country

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

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