"We have received requests from a number of Governments and the EU to take further steps in relation to Russian state controlled media," Meta VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said on Twitter. He added that the tech company will continue to work with governments on the matter, but gave littl...
Their location — in Ukraine’s extreme southeast corner, near the Russian border, the Sea of Azov and Crimea — makes them strategic targets for Moscow. If they fell to Russia, its troops could join forces with those in Crimea, a peninsula Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014. —Katrina Bis...
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not fought only in Ukraine, but also on every map, that shows Crimea. Cartography was coined as a science of princes, as it was these elites who used maps to take land and natural resources from those without power – local people. In the last three ...
Tensions remained high between Ukraine and Russia, which continued to deny that it was waging a proxy war against its neighbour despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The Kerch Strait Bridge Russia-Ukraine WarThe Kerch Strait Bridge, which links Russia with Russian-occupied Crimea, was ...
, Mr. Obama condemned the move, and the U.S. and E.U. sanctioned Russia afterward. Even now, only countries like Venezuela and Syria recognize Crimea as part of Russia. In May, Russia bolstered its relationship with Crimea with the completed construction of a bridge from Russ...
Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback has created an opening for Russia to shatter Western unity on Ukraine and redraw the global power map, according to several influential members of the Russian elite. In the corridors of power in Moscow, the win for Trump’s populist argument that Amer...
Using AIS data, the researchers were also able to determine that the Russian president uses GNSS spoofing to create a bubble of protection around him. During a visit to the Kerch Bridge in annexed Crimea the researchers found that some vessels near his location suddenly began appearing at a nea...
Putin has stoked and burnt their money in Crimea, Donbass, and Syria, and on an insane military and security services budget, and has stolen trillions right from the same budget. Pensioners vote for Putin. Putin has lucked out with pensioners. ___ And yet a little over ten years ago, it...
Their location — in Ukraine's extreme southeast corner, near the Russian border, the Sea of Azov and Crimea — makes them strategic targets for Moscow. If they fell to Russia, its troops could join forces with those in Crimea, a peninsula Moscow seized fr...
It weathered the ‘Moscow Maidan’ protests of 2011-12 and was boosted by the Crimea annexation of 2014. Putin and the players in the system understood the rules of the game, how these rules could be enforced and the necessity of a balance between the normative state, parastatal entities ...