What also became clear was which countries were willing to back Ukraine and which would either side with Russia or sit on the fence - putting every country on the planet into one of three camps. Sky News was there to capture all the latest developme...
Turkey sits on the frontline of Syria and in 2016 led an incursion to retake towns from Isis on its border. The country is a bulwark against restive Russian influence but questions have been raised about whether this troubled democracy has a future in Nato, despite having the second-biggest ...
With the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when opposing sides were hurling epithets of "Nazis" and "fascists" at one another, Putin signed a new law making it a criminal offense to "spread intentionally false information about the Soviet Union's activities during World War II" and "to ...
The country’s only post-Soviet president, Alexander Lukashenko, consolidated near-absolute power through a repressive regime that has allegedly rigged elections, jailed political opponents and silenced the press. A founding republic of the USSR, Belarus has resisted privatization and maintains close ...
Sectionalism is the expression of loyalty or support for a particular region of one’s country, rather than to the country as a whole. In contrast to simple feelings of local pride, sectionalism arises from deeper cultural, economic, or political differences and can lead to violent civil strif...
Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia announced over the weekend that his country is open to "non-NATO models" for ensuring its security while maintaining that it'll never compromise on its territorial integrity. He suggested that "for example, there could be direct guarante...
Last year, Ukrainian folk-rap band Kalush Orchestra triumphed, delivering a morale boost for a country battling Russia’s invasion. Article content Paul Jordan, an expert on the contest who is known as “Dr. Eurovision,” said the competition has become a treasured part of European cul...
Trump is calling for the alliance, which was initially assembled during the Cold War to ward off the Soviet Union, to refocus itself on fighting terrorism. But as Russia continues to maintain its aggressive posture in Eastern Europe and the Baltic on the heels of its annexation of Crimea and...
What is 'Arctic' about 'Arctic security'? Pauline Pic & Frédéric Lasserre This work focuses on the governance of the Arctic, through the prism of security, by analyzing arctic strategies and security policies from coastal countries around the Arctic Ocean in order to understand how they ...
The Russian Civil War had ended in Western Russia in November 1920 with the defeat of General Wrangel in the Crimea. All across Russia popular protests were erupting in the countryside and in the towns and cities. Peasant uprisings were occurring against the Communist Party policy of grain requ...