The prospect of another frozen conflict thus appears increasingly likely, with significant implications for long-term stability and security in Europe.
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Ielizaveta Rekhtman February 23, 2015 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
The prospect of another frozen conflict thus appears increasingly likely, with significant implications for long-term stability and security in Europe.
Read More »Guest February 17, 2015 Latest Articles, Religion and Politics, Religious Freedom, Russia and Eurasia
The European Union and United States have a responsibility to raise their voices and actively confront the Russian Federation with respect to minority rights and freedom of expression in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
Read More »Marc Simms August 14, 2014 Russia and Eurasia
By Marc Simms August 14th, Security and Defence, Issue 3, No. 6 Download as PDF With the death of the leader of the Caucasus Emirate, Doku Umarov in March of this year, and the subsequent appointment of Ali Abu Mukhammed ...
Read More »Ielizaveta Rekhtman August 13, 2014 Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
In his speech to Russian ambassadors and diplomats on July 1st, President Putin defined Russia’s national interests with regards to current events in the world. A rather substantial part of his address was dedicated to the assessment of the Ukrainian crisis.
Read More »Ielizaveta Rekhtman July 17, 2014 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
A balanced assessment of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict is a rather challenging task for policy-makers. This is in large part because the views and data collected from both sides comes under the influence of two opposing public discourses. On the one hand, Russia is perceived as the aggressor breaking the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Read More »Simon Schofield April 3, 2014 Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
HIC Interview with Linda Eichler, Vice President of the YEPP ... Here, we present to you our interview with Linda Eicheler currently running as a candidate for the European Parliament. She is the youngest candidate on the list of Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL), the leading conservative party in Estonia.
Read More »HSC Publication March 26, 2014 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
The crisis in Ukraine originated in President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon a far-reaching Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets and protests stretched over several months, culminating in an eruption of violence in February 2014.
Read More »Simon Schofield March 20, 2014 Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
As reports emerge of a growing sense of unease in Moldova and the Baltic States, the HIC thinks it is critical that we ask what recent events in Crimea signal for the eastern frontiers of Europe as a whole. Here, we present to you our interview with Colm Lauder, currently the Secretary General of Europe's largest political youth organisation, the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP).
Read More »Dwayne Menezes and Simon Schofield March 19, 2014 Global Governance and Human Rights, Russia and Eurasia
As declared by Russia Today, Russian troops were deployed to Crimea ‘only to protect human rights’. The Crimean issue unfolding at present was compared to the secession of Kosovo, and daring to deny the illusory similarities between these two wildly different conflicts is described as ‘rewriting the rulebook’ on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine.
Read More »Rob Marchant March 16, 2014 Opinion, Russia and Eurasia
Last Thursday I took the metro to Belorusskaya, to get the Sheremetyevo airport train out of Moscow. Perhaps not for the last time in my life but probably the last for a while, at least. During the last six months I have met, befriended and drunk too much vodka with some warm, sensible and decent Russian people.
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