Anton Shekhovtsov: Helping those ‘Azov Nazis’?
Heidi Maiberg’s discussion with Anton Shekhovtsov on (ultra-)nationalism in Ukraine and war’s influence on the European far-right milieu.
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The War in Ukraine, Democracy, and the Global South: We Have a Problem
In the last few months, there has been a flurry of discussion about the lack of support that the United States and its European allies have received from the Global South. To some, its reaction to the war raging in Ukraine might even seem counterproductive. But why did we ever expect it to be different?
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Pavel Baev: Exhausted Armies Can Break and The Wars May Be Cut Short
A turning point can come as early as these spring and summer months, says Dr Pavel Baev, professor at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Neither we nor Russians need the Pentagon leaks to see how seriously Ukraine has been preparing for a new offensive to liberate the occupied parts of the country. And it makes Russians nervous.
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A Second Front: EU-Ukraine Cooperation in the Internal Security Domain
A rising need to protect Ukrainian war refugees against organised crime networks, investigation of war crimes, combatting human trafficking and firearms smuggling, and enforcement of sanctions are the main concerns and cooperation priorities between the EU and Ukraine in the internal security domain.
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Jonatan Vseviov: Words Matter, Deeds Matter, but Outcomes Matter Most
There is no reason to assume that history in the 21st century will necessarily be less complicated or less bloody than it was in the 20th or 19th centuries. To cope with global competition, we have to strengthen a common front with the countries that share our worldview, both in fundamental issues but also in the coordination of everyday matters of practical politics, says Jonatan Vseviov, the secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.
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Emine Dzhaparova: Learning from History and Defining Ukraine’s Future
In 1944, the Soviet regime deported over 190,000 Crimean Tatars from their homes – an act of ethnic cleansing. Today, Kyiv calls Russia’s actions against Ukraine a genocide. What are the historical parallels?
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Contribution to European Security: The Only Prerequisite to NATO Membership
The year of Russian aggression against Ukraine changed the security configuration in Europe. What did not change was a perception of the enlargement by NATO itself – the self-restrains and myths cultivated for decades. Yet Finland and Sweden’s acceptance has started a tectonic shift.
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Is There Life in the Desert? Russian Civil Society After the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
By the end of 2021, all leading independent NGOs and individual human rights activists had been completely suppressed, and all issues deemed inconvenient for the Kremlin had been removed from the agenda of those still operating. This report focuses on the state of Russian civil society at the outset of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, as well as on how it was affected by the war and what are the prospects for its development in the future.
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The EU’s Magnitsky Act Obsolete in the Face of Russia’s Crimes in Ukraine?
Despite the mounting evidence of the most serious of human rights violations being conducted by Russian forces on Ukrainian soil, the EU has chosen not to use its new Magnitsky Act to blacklist the perpetrators and their commanders.
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How Russia Went to War: The Kremlin’s Preparations for Its Aggression Against Ukraine
This report examines Russia’s preparations for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine: domestically, in Ukraine itself, in the global information domain, and in building its relationship with China.
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