Meanwhile, Nicholas Burns sworn in as new ambassador to China. What role will he play in the engagement of the two countries? Tensions around Ukraine remain high as the U.S. rejects Russian demands and talks achieve no breakthrough. What comes next? On Friday, China issued a paper called ...
Russia’s invasion has caused a short-term spike in prices, but could prompt a long-term shift towards sustainability. By Jeff Tollefson The Russian end of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe. Germany halted its approval of the pipeline after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Credit: And...
As with the Ukraine crisis, the upcoming US presidential election has become a complicating factor making the situation in the Middle East an extension of the US' domestic political games. The US' stance on the two regional crises refl...
A group of international monitors in eastern Ukraine that is tasked with keeping the peace reported more than 500 explosions in the 24 hours ending Thursday midday. On Friday, a car exploded outside the main government building in Donetsk, but no casualties were reported, and a U.N. Re...
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One of Vladimir Putin's key aims in invading Ukraine is to get rid of its current president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as he views him as a 'puppet' of the United States. President Joe Biden's administration has led the West in imposing sanctions, coordinating with ...
How have we arrived at this situation? The conflict in Ukraine has multiple historical factors that have all driven towards the current situation. The Euromaiden protests in 2013 resulted from then Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich postponing the signing of the EU-Ukraine association agreement, and...
Given the level of support it has given Ukraine, Poland's request that Ukrainian grain sales should not come at the expense of its own farmers is "quite reasonable", according to military analyst Sean Bell.
“to destabilize the situation in ukraine, to make its government look incompetent and vulnerable.” he lumps the blackouts and other cyberattacks together with the russian disinformation flooding ukraine’s media, the terroristic campaigns in the east of the country, and his own poisoning years ...
Could any aspect of your own training prepare you for the current situation? Yes. During the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, I well understood that psychologists would face the problem of trauma and PTSD. I began to study it intensively. The symptoms of PTSD include a ...