It was in particular through the Ukraine crisis and the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 that Germany found itself assuming a leadership role also in the EU's foreign policy, a role it has shunned in the past. However, for Berlin this new role is far from obvious - it is only ...
But in 2014, Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in an illegal move that violated the territorial integrity of the former Soviet republic, and sparkeda warthat has displaced nearly 2 million people and destroyed the country’s infrastructure. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justified the aggression...
Croatian midfielder Neven Djurasek joined Shakhtar from Dinamo Zagreb in July 2022 on a two-year deal. The 24-year-old had previously played in Ukraine before the war's escalation last year for Dnipro-1, and he told ESPN: "Of course the war was a big problem in my...
things will change. I think that Great Britain will stand squarely behind Ukraine and as many people in the west. But Germany is still vacillating. It’s really surprising what they are doing. I just really don’t understand the strategy or the plans of Scholz. It makes absolutely no sense...
without consulting Ukraine, a gigantic bridge linking its metropolis to the Crimean peninsula across the Sea of Azov, effectively privatizing this small sea. Crimea is home to the port of Sevastopol, which is indispensable to the Russian navy. The latter represented nothing in 1990, but became a...
The U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions against Russian officials, industries, and companies following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and again in 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.89 Who Administers Sanctions Used by the United States?
And, more importantly, how could Ukraine's government maximise the blow to morale by creating “a particular information environment”? This is how Sviatoslav Hnizdovsky, the founder of the Open Minds Institute (OMI) in Kyiv, describes the work his research outfit did by generating these assess...
On his July 4 visit, Putin praised Italy for its critical stance on European Union (EU) sanctions against Russia put in place in 2014, after the country's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea. "We hope that Italy will consistently and clearly speak out about its position (regarding sanctions) and...
Let me finish by quoting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. In May 2022, in light of the murderous war of Russia in Ukraine, he said: “Freedom is more important than free trade.” This sentence captures the very essence of what is at stake—though freedom and free trade are not al...
The Arab advance through the Caucasus mountains, however, met stubborn resistance from the Turkic-speaking Khazars (now a vanished nomadic community). They managed to create a huge powerful state - the Khazar Khaganate, which included a part of the territories of modern Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhs...