Factors including protracted conflicts, climate variability, and economic slowdowns and downturns interact to the detriment of food security and nutrition by creating multiple, compounding impacts at many different points within global food systems, and the pandemic has aggravated the situation, he explai...
Ukraine's Crisis and Russia's Closest Allies: A Reinforced Intra-Alliance Security Dilemma at Work // The International Spectator, 2014, No. 49(4), pp 97-111.Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira, A., 2014a. "Ukraine's Crisis and Russia's closest allies: A reinforced intra- alliance security dilemma...
On Feb. 24, 2022, the world watched as Russia invaded its neighboring country, Ukraine. How did the two countries, once tied together by the Soviet Union, get to this point? These are the major events that led to the crisis, along with some key moments since the war began more than ...
ANKARA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The fallout of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and expected interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve in March may put extra pressure on the vulnerable Turkish economy, which is battling high inflation and a weak currency, experts said. "It seems that the R...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict(俄乌冲突) could lead to a global food crisis(危机) that will hit developing countries the hardest, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in Stockholm on Wednesday. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is creating suffering and "must end now", Guterres ...
The Ukraine crisis hit a pivotal point Thursday as it appeared Russia was gearing up for an invasion, and the U.S. intensified its diplomacy.
The war in Ukraine represents the second largest humanitarian crisis since the 1960s in terms of number of people who have fled or been displaced, and fifth in terms of fraction of the population this represents. And it could get worse: the UN estimates that 8.3 mil...
Ukraine must drop its NATO ambitions; Ukraine must withdraw its troops from the entirety of the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed and mostly controlled by Russia. Donald Trump said over the weekend that "progress" has been made in talks to end the war. ...
Some analysts have suggested that having elections while the war continues could be highly destabilising internally - and could play into the hands of Putin - who has called on Ukraine to elect a new leader for some time. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested he would be open to such elections, ...
While we view that Russia will not wage war with Ukraine, we expect that tensions may further escalate, which could exacerbate inflationary pressures. With both Russia and Ukraine being major exporters of oil and other commodity products, the tensions may cause more bottlenecks in the supply chain...